Category: Parenting issues

Recently my 6-yr-old has been going into her “pre-tweens” stage.  Yes, “pre-tweens”!  (Tween is the new word for describing someone between child and teen age, and I guess my girl belongs to the stage before that, hence, “pre-tweens”)  She has been defiant and rude to her mummy and daddy.  She challenges our stare or no stare, mumbles under her breath, knuckles on her waist, folds her arms, back talks, anything that you can see in an adolescent.  Oh dear!  You can imagine how devastated I feel. My natural instinct was to flip back on my childhood memories and nope, I could not find anything similar in my childhood days to deal with such behaviour.  Usually I will think back on how my mother would have dealt with such a situation and mirror her actions or improvised from there.  My next thinking is self-blame.  This is bad.  I start to think I may not have spent enough time with her.  There were some changes in the house recently as we just moved house.  Next on my thought list is that she picked up from her friends in school.  Fair enough, I gave her the benefit of the doubt that she is not by nature a rude girl. Continue reading “Dealing with back talk and rude behaviour [+ Free Printables!]”