Hi Annie, Ash is doing fantastic at school, she is and always has been fantastic at school and daycare. At day care they were forever telling me how wonderful she was, always the first to offer help, looks out for the other kids, etc. At school one of the reading mums came up to tell me how she is flying through spelling and learning her words and stuff, so on that side of it she is doing wonderfully.

The clothes thing has been ongoing since she was 10 months old. At that age there is no way its a power struggle or about doing what she is told. I happily let her pick her own clothes and don't care what terrible things she puts together. The issue is SHE picks clothes, then as she is putting them on she gets upset cause they aren't right and goes to pick more, but ends up getting upset cause she hates everything (even the ones she picked herself at the shops) In the end after 20 mins of her carrying on i don't have the time to wait another 20 mins just for her to pick clothes. Thats where i step in and say pick your clothes and get dressed or I pick them for you. Then she loses it.

On the upside her eating has gotten much better. Tonight she scoffed 2 huge bowls of tuna pasta, the other night a platefull of chops and salad, and another night 3 whole taco's stuffed with meat and salad.

Its really mainly the clothes thing now, and anyone (mum, sis, DP, her dad etc) all agree its not normal for a kid to be like this. I'm seriously going to record the next time she does it and take it with me to the app to show them EXACTLY what I mean. People meet her and think she is the most perfect angel, shes polite and well mannered, well spoken, kind and caring. They don't believe me when i explain to them what shes like. And i do admit myself most of the time I am very proud of her, she's growing up into a beautiful little girl.......she just HATES clothes!