She is a very big Cry baby. I have a 2 yr old and she crys more than him. She is not jelous of him she has always been this way. I would very much like for our days to go by smoother. She cries when she gets up, she crys when she takes a bath, she cries when I brush her hair, she cryes if I dont jump the moment she wants me too. Im a single parent I have no help. Can someone help me?
2006-08-22 12:37:03 · 20 answers · asked by mexchick316 3 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Parenting
Give her a crying chair. You can be nurturing about the crying, but tell her that she has a special chair that she must go to when she needs to cry. Tell her she can come back to you when she is done, and you will finish the task at hand. I don't mean send her to the chair as a punishment, but say "Oh dear, lets put you in the crying chair until your feeling better." At first it will be a novelty, but she will soon get bored with it. The crying jags will get shorter, and fewer in no time.
2006-08-22 18:02:37 · answer #1 · answered by love2utam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take it from me you need to nip this in the butt now she is most likely doing it to get attention no matter what type of attention she gets. I have a 10yr step son who's mother did this and now he wants to do it all the time but it has gone past the stage of crying it is to the point of screaming and yelling you may want to go see a counselor just in case there is something more to it but you need to not give into her cries when she does this take your other child and go into another room untill she has calmed down. I am not a counselor but I know this is what we have been fighting with my step son and we have been working on it for a while now
2006-08-22 19:49:53 · answer #2 · answered by Shannon T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe she is having an attack of attention or lack thereof. I would suggest letting her deal with her issues by herself for a little while to see if she calms down. Chances are that she is crying more than the baby because she knows that she will get all the attention that way. It is all about socialization and feeling needed and getting attention for a child, and she is definitely getting attention from crying from the sounds of it.
2006-08-22 19:43:25 · answer #3 · answered by Matt R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My wife and I had a little girl like that. From the time she was born. She's now 8 and has grown out of it (for the most part). But she was still like that at 6. If you looked at her the wrong way she was crying. She is the middle of 3 girls, I was a middle child myself and my mom said I was almost the same way.
Good luck and maybe she'll grow out of it soon.
2006-08-22 19:44:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My younger brother is a crybaby too. The best thing to do is let her cry. if you continue to give her what she wants when she cries, she will learn that crying will get her rewards she wants. Ignore her, no matter how hard it seems. Give her time outs, take away things from her until she gets real. Take her counseling if any of this doesn't seem to work.
2006-08-22 19:44:40 · answer #5 · answered by ChaiTea 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Start telling her that you can't understand her when she is crying and that you can only understand her when she is talking calmly.
Reward her for not crying with a happy face sticker on a chart. After earning a certain amount of stickers, give her a treat or toy or take her somewhere special.
2006-08-22 19:50:57 · answer #6 · answered by C K Platypus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Give your six year old daughter responsibility with the new baby. Ask her to help you at every turn. I did that with my older daughter, and she did very well. Is your daughter in kindergarten yet? If so, that will help too. Say that your daughter can do things with you that her little brother can't because he's too little. She just wants a little more attention from you.
2006-08-22 19:44:28 · answer #7 · answered by Nani 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its ok to cry sometimes but not constantly.Kids do it if they are too attached to someone like their mom.Or they are worried of like losing something or someone.This girl lived with a single mom and some of her friends' mom started dying (more than one) and hse had OCD when she was 8.Or she doesnt feel happy with something.But it may be nothing.See as time progresses.
2006-08-22 19:44:13 · answer #8 · answered by heyitspreeti 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my son is six and use to cry all the time too, the reason is that he needs attention and that is his way of getting it whether good or bad, so i have learned to set some time just for him, by taking him someplace special and that has cut down tremendously on his crying spells, if it still persists a trip to the doctor wont hurt
2006-08-22 19:44:26 · answer #9 · answered by princessami 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
does she cry to just get her way or is she really upset? We went thru alot w/our daughter and i took alot of family advice so the best I have for you is to take her to the doc to make sure she is ok and there are no health reasons for this and then try discipline but take her first there might be something else going on and it won't hurt to ask but it could if you don't
2006-08-22 19:43:12 · answer #10 · answered by blueseawale 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋