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<blockquote data-quote="Shari" data-source="post: 260141" data-attributes="member: 1848"><p>easy child 2 complains about EVERYTHING. It drives me crazy, too. If she gets a paper cut at her mom's on Friday, she will be sure to show us where it was on Wednesday when she's at our house. It makes me nuts. If she scratches her skin and it leaves a welt or a red mark, even if it doesn't break the skin, we hear about it for hours. If she feels a slight bit off when she wakes up in the morning, she's too sick to go to school (gotta blame granny for allowing this one, tho...)</p><p> </p><p>I just do my best to discern if there might be something real or not, and play it from there. I'd feel bad for the spleen thing, too, but really, you can't expect differently from yourself when they cry wolf all the time. Its a standing rule in our house that if you're too sick for school, you'll spend the day in bed with no tv (unless there's physical proof of illness, like fever, etc). If its pain, I usually say "ah, man, we were going to go skating, too. Guess we'll have to cancel." or "We were going to go swimming at the indoor pool, can't go there with open sores..." The kicker to that is that we DO go on a lot of physical activity outings, and we do can them if she's complaining (or I take wee difficult child alone). It has curbed it, but hasn't stopped it.</p><p> </p><p>Sorry I'm not much help. The whining drives me nuts, and I realize people have different tolerance levels, but when you know its for attention, or its for attention 99.9&#37; of the time, ugh...</p><p> </p><p>Oh, and easy child 2 will trip or something, not even fall, and she'll loudly yell out to everyone "I'm Ok! I'm not hurt!" when no one EVER asks. Wee difficult child has started doing it, and that's pretty darned annoying, too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shari, post: 260141, member: 1848"] easy child 2 complains about EVERYTHING. It drives me crazy, too. If she gets a paper cut at her mom's on Friday, she will be sure to show us where it was on Wednesday when she's at our house. It makes me nuts. If she scratches her skin and it leaves a welt or a red mark, even if it doesn't break the skin, we hear about it for hours. If she feels a slight bit off when she wakes up in the morning, she's too sick to go to school (gotta blame granny for allowing this one, tho...) I just do my best to discern if there might be something real or not, and play it from there. I'd feel bad for the spleen thing, too, but really, you can't expect differently from yourself when they cry wolf all the time. Its a standing rule in our house that if you're too sick for school, you'll spend the day in bed with no tv (unless there's physical proof of illness, like fever, etc). If its pain, I usually say "ah, man, we were going to go skating, too. Guess we'll have to cancel." or "We were going to go swimming at the indoor pool, can't go there with open sores..." The kicker to that is that we DO go on a lot of physical activity outings, and we do can them if she's complaining (or I take wee difficult child alone). It has curbed it, but hasn't stopped it. Sorry I'm not much help. The whining drives me nuts, and I realize people have different tolerance levels, but when you know its for attention, or its for attention 99.9% of the time, ugh... Oh, and easy child 2 will trip or something, not even fall, and she'll loudly yell out to everyone "I'm Ok! I'm not hurt!" when no one EVER asks. Wee difficult child has started doing it, and that's pretty darned annoying, too. [/QUOTE]
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