My niece is 6 years old and is starting 1st grade. She is over my house everyday and I babysit her all the time, she practically lives at my house. I am only 15 but I am her only older female role-model. She tends to get on my nerves. She talks CONSTANTLY even while she is in her bed and everyone else is trying to sleep in a different room, or when she is in the bath. She will just go up to random people in the store and literally tell them her life story (stuff like her dad getting girls pregnant and other inappropriate stuff). When someone gives her a gift, instead of saying thank you, she will yell "mine" and hug the gift. And i try to correct her when she does stuff like that, but it is constant! I think it is because she has a low self esteem. But i am not sure. She will likely be in the dance class that i teach next year, and I don't know if i am going to be able to deal with her and the other kids in the class too.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
2006-08-23
12:04:51
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