My wonderful, loving nanny said something today to me about my daughter and now has me a little worried and wondering if she might be on to something. My daughter is moody and one minute can be so nice and the next can be totally opposite. My nanny described it as being like bi-polar.
My understanding of bi-polar in kids is that it is way more drastic than what my daughter does but I don't want to dismiss it if it is a possibility. Here is some of what her personality is like:
My daughter doesn't have major tantrums and never has, even as a 2 year old. She is very controlling of things. If you tell her something is white, she will say it is black. If you tell her she can have 1, she will want 2. She is always pushing the envelope on EVERY.LITTLE.THING.
When playing with new kids she doesn't know, she tends to be very shy. Once she gets to know the kids, she tends to be bossy. And after becoming really close to them, she begins to sabotage the friendship and becomes a bully (verbally) to them.
She is very hypersexual and frequently goes into her room to masturbate at least once a day.
She tends to lie about lots of things, even things that are inconsequential.
She is a huge carb addict and would eat nothing more than carbs if I let her all day.
She could be getting along fine with her brother and they are playing nicely and then she will do something or say something to irritate him. She is an EXPERT at pushing his buttons and knows exactly what to do to get him angry.
What I don't know is how much of this is the age (she is 5 years old), how much is the fact that her dad and I are recently divorced (although many of these symptoms occurred before the divorce as well), or is there something more serious going on??
Do these symtoms sound alarming to you?
My understanding of bi-polar in kids is that it is way more drastic than what my daughter does but I don't want to dismiss it if it is a possibility. Here is some of what her personality is like:
My daughter doesn't have major tantrums and never has, even as a 2 year old. She is very controlling of things. If you tell her something is white, she will say it is black. If you tell her she can have 1, she will want 2. She is always pushing the envelope on EVERY.LITTLE.THING.
When playing with new kids she doesn't know, she tends to be very shy. Once she gets to know the kids, she tends to be bossy. And after becoming really close to them, she begins to sabotage the friendship and becomes a bully (verbally) to them.
She is very hypersexual and frequently goes into her room to masturbate at least once a day.
She tends to lie about lots of things, even things that are inconsequential.
She is a huge carb addict and would eat nothing more than carbs if I let her all day.
She could be getting along fine with her brother and they are playing nicely and then she will do something or say something to irritate him. She is an EXPERT at pushing his buttons and knows exactly what to do to get him angry.
What I don't know is how much of this is the age (she is 5 years old), how much is the fact that her dad and I are recently divorced (although many of these symptoms occurred before the divorce as well), or is there something more serious going on??
Do these symtoms sound alarming to you?
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