I need to de-brief, but I'm also after some advice.
I am at a loss as to how to parent dd1. She has just turned 6, and at the end of kindly. She is smart, kind, intelligent, shy, proud, funny, beautiful. She is also stubborn, determined, strong willed.
This year she has grown so much, and I am so very proud of her.
But I am at my end with her. She has started lying (instead of owning mistakes she lies and blames one of her sisters, or the animals, it's anyone but her). Her tantrums are incredible, she hits, kicks, screams (yell would have been an understatement), throws things at me.
I'm sure most of her behaviour, if not all, is normal for her age. But my parenting skills are severely lacking in how to handle it. I've tried time outs, we've talked one on one at her level to work out what's going on, I've removed her from immediate environment etc. I've taken her beloved belongings.
Nothing seems to work. Dh is on the same page and he doesn't have success, with or without me by his side.
I feel so alone, BB is my village, but there is no village in real life. I don't have a 'mentor' to ask and gain advice from.
I'm tired of being in tears because I feel like I am a failure, that I am failing my children. I am tired of being constantly grumpy at the girls. I'm tired of being at a loss as to how to handle it all.
Please help me fill my toolbox full if more parenting tools to get this all back on track.
Thanks x