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Should I get my daughter evaluated?
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<blockquote data-quote="JHart" data-source="post: 712441" data-attributes="member: 21820"><p>A dad:</p><p></p><p>Overall, she is better now than when she was a baby and toddler. It's different, obviously, but there are times when for a week or two, she is very good. Still the bad times can be very bad.</p><p></p><p>That said, I do think sibling competition is a big part of it. She and I went to her grandmother's house for a month last summer while my husband and her brother went overseas to visit family (I was pregnant and didn't want to go). We called it our divide-and-conquer strategy and it was indeed quite successful. For that whole month, she was a little angel. I did things with her that I never do at home. There is a grocery store a half mile from her grandmother's house. We walked there together every other day. We walked there, we shopped, and we walked back. No tantrums. No meltdowns. Completely. Fine. She was a different child that month. </p><p></p><p>Sometimes I think maybe she'd be happier living with grandparents full time, but neither set of grandparents wants to raise a child right now. So her younger brothers are a reality she will have to deal with. Siblings are a trigger, but not a trigger we can remove indefinitely. She is going to stay with her grandmother for three weeks this summer. I think it will be a good time for her to chill out and enjoy life a bit more.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JHart, post: 712441, member: 21820"] A dad: Overall, she is better now than when she was a baby and toddler. It's different, obviously, but there are times when for a week or two, she is very good. Still the bad times can be very bad. That said, I do think sibling competition is a big part of it. She and I went to her grandmother's house for a month last summer while my husband and her brother went overseas to visit family (I was pregnant and didn't want to go). We called it our divide-and-conquer strategy and it was indeed quite successful. For that whole month, she was a little angel. I did things with her that I never do at home. There is a grocery store a half mile from her grandmother's house. We walked there together every other day. We walked there, we shopped, and we walked back. No tantrums. No meltdowns. Completely. Fine. She was a different child that month. Sometimes I think maybe she'd be happier living with grandparents full time, but neither set of grandparents wants to raise a child right now. So her younger brothers are a reality she will have to deal with. Siblings are a trigger, but not a trigger we can remove indefinitely. She is going to stay with her grandmother for three weeks this summer. I think it will be a good time for her to chill out and enjoy life a bit more. [/QUOTE]
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