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<blockquote data-quote="Arielle" data-source="post: 128519" data-attributes="member: 4621"><p>Now I have some questions:</p><p></p><p>did she seem upset by tags in clothes <span style="color: darkorchid">Never mentioned tags bothering her.</span></p><p>gravitate toward certain types of materials that didn't feel "yucky" or "itchy" <span style="color: darkorchid">Likes elasticized waists in pants as opposed to jeans and button or zippered pants. I believe that is because that has to do more with comfort than anything. She is stocky and at almost 8 years old, wears a size 14. She hates things that are tight. The pants are always too long and have to be shortened.</span></p><p>seem to know everything about a particular subject (with my kids it was trains, yugioh cards, certain legos <span style="color: darkorchid">No. Not really. </span></p><p>really freak out when her routine was disturbed/changed <span style="color: darkorchid">She really freaked out the other day, when we told her that she is getting a tutor. She had a crying tantrum for about a half hour. She is bright and mostly an A and B student. My husband and daughter's psychologist believe that a tutor will free up time for me for my 2 year old DS. It will also make things less stressful for me because she gives me a hard time with respect to homework. An hour's worth of homework can drag out to 4 hours or more. She simply does not want to do it or do it when she is good and ready. My husband is in denial and thinks her defiance is simply in relation to homework and nothing else. </span></p><p>really freak out when she had to transition from one thing to the next <span style="color: darkorchid">She tries to undermine my authority at every opportunity. Yesterday, we had a date with my Mom to go shopping to two stores. When my Mom arrived to pick us up with her car, daughter refused to go. She went out in the backyard where my husband's workers were working (construction work) and called husband up to pick her up. She did not want to go shopping. I, of course, did not want to go out and yell at her in front of husband's workers and have them see her be defiant to me. So, we waited 15 minutes until husband came home from work to pick her up and then my Mom, DS and I went shopping. I did not have a problem with daughter driving around from job site to job site with husband and have him pick her up. I had a problem with him caving in to her request and not being firm and telling daughter that she ought to go shopping as planned with Mommy and Grandma. It is my contention that daughter is a child and is not the one that ought to be making decisions of what she wants or does not want to do. It becomes a struggle with respect to transition when she does not want to do something. Otherwise, if we are doing different things that she likes to do, there is no problem transitioning from thing to thing.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Arielle, post: 128519, member: 4621"] Now I have some questions: did she seem upset by tags in clothes [COLOR=darkorchid]Never mentioned tags bothering her.[/COLOR] gravitate toward certain types of materials that didn't feel "yucky" or "itchy" [COLOR=darkorchid]Likes elasticized waists in pants as opposed to jeans and button or zippered pants. I believe that is because that has to do more with comfort than anything. She is stocky and at almost 8 years old, wears a size 14. She hates things that are tight. The pants are always too long and have to be shortened.[/COLOR] seem to know everything about a particular subject (with my kids it was trains, yugioh cards, certain legos [COLOR=darkorchid]No. Not really. [/COLOR] really freak out when her routine was disturbed/changed [COLOR=darkorchid]She really freaked out the other day, when we told her that she is getting a tutor. She had a crying tantrum for about a half hour. She is bright and mostly an A and B student. My husband and daughter's psychologist believe that a tutor will free up time for me for my 2 year old DS. It will also make things less stressful for me because she gives me a hard time with respect to homework. An hour's worth of homework can drag out to 4 hours or more. She simply does not want to do it or do it when she is good and ready. My husband is in denial and thinks her defiance is simply in relation to homework and nothing else. [/COLOR] really freak out when she had to transition from one thing to the next [COLOR=darkorchid]She tries to undermine my authority at every opportunity. Yesterday, we had a date with my Mom to go shopping to two stores. When my Mom arrived to pick us up with her car, daughter refused to go. She went out in the backyard where my husband's workers were working (construction work) and called husband up to pick her up. She did not want to go shopping. I, of course, did not want to go out and yell at her in front of husband's workers and have them see her be defiant to me. So, we waited 15 minutes until husband came home from work to pick her up and then my Mom, DS and I went shopping. I did not have a problem with daughter driving around from job site to job site with husband and have him pick her up. I had a problem with him caving in to her request and not being firm and telling daughter that she ought to go shopping as planned with Mommy and Grandma. It is my contention that daughter is a child and is not the one that ought to be making decisions of what she wants or does not want to do. It becomes a struggle with respect to transition when she does not want to do something. Otherwise, if we are doing different things that she likes to do, there is no problem transitioning from thing to thing.[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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