No Sharing
January 26th, 2009 | 186 views | by fireflyPrincess is in no mood to share for days now. And I’m not talking about her toys and things like that. I’m talking about food and furniture around the house.
This morning we had a hard time allowing me to sit anywhere, since she had a plan to have me stand somewhere in the kitchen. All of a sudden she doesn’t allow me to use MY computer, she wants it and that’s the end of it…
Than the food issue…for days now we are eating hidden from Her Majesty since if she is not hungry NO one else is allowed to eat.
Please tell me this is just a short faze and soon I’ll be allowed to live in my house LOL? Also any suggestions how to get back in control? 
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It is a phase – it will pass, but you might have to ‘help’ it pass. Our Princess Nagger had (and sometimes still does have) those moments…the way we handle them is we remind her WE are in charge, not her (and usually she’ll start stomping her feet and ‘growl’ at us…yes, she’ll actually growl! LOL!!) But then I threaten her with a time out if she doesn’t have an ‘attitude adjustment’, because a time out IS an ‘attitude adjustment’…that usually gets her to stop her antics.
Hubby suggested that you give her a taste of her own medicine – if she wants to do something, you don’t allow it because YOU don’t want to do it…
Basically what I ended up hearing come out of my mouth was something I never thought would ever pass my lips… “Because I’m the Mom and I said so!” (giggle!)
What your daughter is doing is typical – she’s testing where the ‘line’ is…all kids need boundaries, and she’s testing where those boundaries are. If you let her get away with it, she’s winning, and those boundaries are shifting – in the wrong direction. Does that make sense?
You’re not alone on this – why else would I refer to my darling daughter as the Nagging Princess or Princess Nagger? (smirk, smirk!) She knows if I say something I mean it – if I tell her I’m going to put her in a time out when she does it again, and do so (even though her pitiful wailing always breaks my heart) I do it. Sometimes I tell her *I* need to have a time out – when she’s being particularly difficult and I don’t want to lose my temper and start yelling at her or something. For some reason that’s always diffused any rising tantrum, because she thinks it’s funny that *I* would put myself in a time-out…you know, because according to her, time-out’s are only for kids…(grin!!)
Good luck with Her Majesty…hopefully she’ll get through this phase quickly!
It does make sense perfectly, and thank you for the suggestions.
See for some reason time outs really don’t do much here…she has a time out and afterwards just continues where she has left off, and in circles we go time out, back and back.
and that may do a little confusing on her, she knows that she’s able to get away with it when with one parent and now she’s taking it so far ugh…
She also does not care much for taking away toys and things like that…makes me wonder, why is it like that, I’m very relaxed when it comes to all parenting thing, but there are rules and trust me lots of them, where Hubby only has rules when it comes to his home office
But hopefully we’ll set this straight again…or I’ll luck myself in a time out somewhere LOL
Will does this too sometimes more to his Dad, but sometimes u have to give them a taste of their own med