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[mousestruck]

The other day we were excitedly unwrapping a package our good friend had sent to DS (age 8) from Wyoming. It was filled with authentic fossils -- so cool! DD -- who is a month shy of four years old -- dove right into the fragile contents, prompting DH and I to sternly tell her to please wait. Well, you'd have thought we had her tarred and feathered by the indignant look on her face.

She let out am emphatic "Huh," then crossed her arms and stomped upstairs to her bedroom... making sure we heard her the entire way! DH and I were completely shocked. We never saw that kind of behavior from our little princess! DH said, "Don't even tell me she's going to slam the door." Two seconds later... bam!

DH looked over at me, covered his eyes with his hands, and said, "OMG, we have a girl." After growing up in a full house of boys, I guess it took him a while to notice!

PS. I thought this stuff wasn't suppossed to start until they're teenagers!!!

Aimee

[Colexis Mom]

That's funny! My DD is 5, and she's been acting like that for quite some time! I too thought it wouldn't happen until she was a teenager, and now I'm scared out of my wits what it is actually going to be like when she is one

[GoofyMom]

I've very often said that my DD has been PMSing since she was 2! She was very difficult when she was younger and I was absolutely *dreading* the teenaged years. But now that we're in the middle of them, I have to tell you it's not awful. There are definitely eye-rollin', foot-stompin' door-slammin' moments, but most of the time she's a great kid. I figure she must have got most of it out of her system when she was little! (touch wood just to make sure I haven't jinxed us )

[Tara O'Hara]

Aimee! Girls are something else!!

[graygables]

I have four of these (count 'em 4!!!) and they all did the same thing. I told DH that I need to track cycles on the 5yo b/c I know she's already PMSing! Actually, this sort of thing happens while they're still cute as a survival mechanism so we don't *kill* them when they are 14!!!

[vsonnier]

Wow! She is starting early!

[joyjoy]

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now I'm scared out of my wits what it is actually going to be like when she is one

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Be afraid. Be very, very afraid.

[disneyqueenmum]

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I've very often said that my DD has been PMSing since she was 2! She was very difficult when she was younger and I was absolutely *dreading* the teenaged years. But now that we're in the middle of them, I have to tell you it's not awful. There are definitely eye-rollin', foot-stompin' door-slammin' moments, but most of the time she's a great kid. I figure she must have got most of it out of her system when she was little! (touch wood just to make sure I haven't jinxed us )

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Same scenario with our DD (who is now a teenager). She was stubborn and emotional until she was about 12. Now (two weeks from 14) she is at this time a responsible over-achiever who we have to drag away from her studies so she doesn't get an ulcer! This may change again.

[TinkerBelz]

My daughter was really pretty passive until she was about 6. But she never was too bad. When she was 10 she slammed her door. ONCE. I never allowed it again. I told her she could be mad as heck at me, she could shut her door to block me out, but she was not ALLOWED to slam the door. I told her I simply didn't like the noise and didn't want the door broken or something come flying off the wall. I told her how a friend's daughter did that and the 2nd time she did it (and was warned beforehand) that her door would be REMOVED if she slammed it. She lost her door and her privacy because of it.

I think it only gets worse if we don't teach our kids to control their anger. Not surpress it, but control it. Maybe I'm a stickler because I grew up with a mother that would go into rages and I'd have to lock myself in my bedroom to get away from her/it.

It's funny though because we were at the post office (of which I go every day due to our business) and they told me something I didn't like one bit. It was "their rule". But boy was it a GREAT life example. I used it as an opportunity to teach my daughter that even adults get told things and have rules pressed on them that they may not like, and may even make me mad, but I NOT ALLOWED to throw a fit just because I don't like it. I have to learn to control the anger and accept the situation.

She looked at me amazed. She didn't realize that adults had to adhere to rules too and had things happen to them that they didn't like either. LOL

Yvonne

[DrDolphin]

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Aimee! Girls are something else!!

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[snoozy]

Just wait until daddy's little princess is a teenager and he wants to lock her up until she's 30.



I had DD yell for me one day recently, "mom, do something about him, he doesn't want me to have a life, tell him to stop it, he is so embarrassing".



DH was upset because he over heard DD and her best friend talking about how hot the singer Usher was, and he had a total meltdown because of it. I had to explain to him that she is 15 going on 16 next month, and some guys are just hot, of course this went way over his head and he didn't have a clue who Usher was. So I had to explain who Usher was and that I had to agree with the girls that, he is extremely hot. Well, now he's really



Lately I'm running interference between the two of them alot. Its difficult for DH to have to come to terms with his little girl not being a little girl anymore.



For those who think that girls PM's is bad. I been working with mostly teenage boys for 7 years now. I haven't PM'sed in 7 years, they do it for me. I'm serious! They all PM's about two to three days before I start. Not only that but, about two years ago we had an unusual large group of girls enrolled and they all noticed the same thing and would talk about it often.

[Nick and Ryans Mom]

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now I'm scared out of my wits what it is actually going to be like when she is one

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It's times like this I am glad I have boys

[buckysmom]

Drama is my DD's middle name, since the age of, um, about birth I think...y'all had it lucky
I'm totally dreading the teen years-we've been looking into convents but don't know if they take Presbyterians or not!

[Stephanie P.]

That's so funny!

Stephanie