negativity. phase or something's up

[meemee]

yesterday at a friends house i made dd the best egg exactly how she liked it. except i forgot to take out the yolk.

at the table she spent a few minutes on ewww yolk, ewww now its broken... etc. i had to stop her coz she was turning us off our food. 

hiking - at the beginning. dont wanna go. tired. cant breathe. etc etc etc. after half an hour of complaining i told her to stop. an hour later she was having the time of her life when the hike got really challenging. 

is this a normal part of childhood? dd will be turning 9 pretty soon here. 

[Drummer's Wife]

I think it's normal pre-teen stuff.  My DD is 10, and sometimes complains, complains, complains, and then gets over it.  They just get dramatic, I think.

[meemee]

 preteen? OMG did u just use the word preteen?!!!! OMG i am so not ready for that.

but phew!!! that's a relief knowing it iss normal. i have never met such a positively glowing negative child before. she is the most enthusiastic and yes dramatic critique. negativity brings out the poet in her more than any other state. 

which is why i am learning to 'force' her to do something which she takes well coz she is having such a hard time with choice. 

and even though dd is 9, she can be in the preteen stage. she hits all the 'problem' behaviour early - tantrums at 1 and yet leaves the 'braggy' behaviours till the end like walking late, riding a tricycle late, etc. 

[lindberg99]

I think some of it is just her personality too. My 11 yo is like that (It's too hot, I'm tired, I have a stomachache) unless it is something he really likes. eg, he dives and hit the board on a dive, got out and kept diving for another hour. If that had been something else, he would have been complaining and carrying on.

And I know where he gets it, from me. I have fortunately learned to rein it in but it still sneaks out sometimes.

[onlyzombiecat]

My dd had a language arts assignment where she was to choose which sentences needed an exclamation point and which ones needed a period. She did not answer the way an older person would have.  I told dh later that for an 11 year old girl everything is an exclamation point.

Drama- we have it.