Help! I don’t LIKE her!

Ugh, why is it that every few months my beautiful, happy, bubbly, independent wee princess turns into an evil, sulky, disagreeable grump more reminiscent of an angsty pre-teen than a four year old?

Yesterday I bought some lemonade for a treat coz it was hot (and coz I was secretly craving it). I poured her a glass. She sat in the lounge and screamed at me to bring it to her. I told her she could have it in the kitchen where me and the gremlins were having afternoon tea. She sat in the lounge and continued to scream until her DVD was finished, then appeared in the kitchen shrieking "naughty mummy, you didn't bring my lemonade" at the top of her voice. I told her to settle down, and that she could have her lemonade in the kitchen with us and she said...
"NAUGHTY MUMMY, I'M GOING TO HIT YOU!"

So I sent her to her room where the performance continued on for another 1/2 hour or so until she finally calmed down.

And that's just one example. She's just being generally feral and unco-operative, last night I asked her to pick up her pens off the floor before she went to bed and she said "whatever" in the cheeky, sarcastic way that teenagers do. Where is she getting this stuff?!

Is she the only feral four year old? I suspect she is just more than ready for school and her behaviour will settle when school starts but so help me God if I don't wring her neck before February!

SNAP! my darling emma 3.5 is the same EEEEK! hopefully it will passs quickly cause its really starting to test my patience.

My happy little Cameron seems a bit hormonal at the moment too. He's four and a half. I got pulled aside at daycare yesterday for a 'wee chat about this attitude Cameron has at the moment'. He's chatting back to the teachers at preschool, hitting his sister and pushing me at home. Urghh, what happened to my sweet, loving little boy?
I'm with you Emma - i think Cam is ready for school and the next 6 months are going to be very loooooong!

I have a hormonal pre teen who will either bite my head off, laugh or cry when I ask her something. Mercedes isnt safe either

Haha I agree with Kels they get worse!!!!!
Wait until you have a 11 and a 9 year old , such fun

But theres hope for those with boys supposedly they aren't as bad as girls.

As a Former Feral Four-Year-Old (actually, feral from about 18 months to 15 years - my poor mum!) I can honestly say they DO get better! My mum tells stories of how people would laugh when she said she wasn't sure I would survive to be 5 years old, and she was serious. I was a HORRIBLE child, but an ANGEL for everyone else. Mum couldn't figure out who they were talking about, cos HER daughter was a sh*t!!!

Hang in there, guys.

Sorry

When I found out Maya was a girl, my midwife said to me that girls are better babies than boys, but when they're teenagers the roles reverse and girls are awful. I live in fear!

Today she screamed for an hour and a half in her bedroom (I kid you not, Gandt heard her when we were on the phone) because I sent her to her room for pulling down the curtain in the lounge. Willie is not going to be impressed when he gets home coz he had to fix it the last time she pulled it down and it's a mission.

They're all yours Kels!

So this is what I have to look forward to with 2 girls... I guess it still could pop out a boy and surprise us!

Well Aimee, when it gets really bad, think of me and it'll make you feel better - I have THREE girls!

Was at a birthday party with Miss Feral Four herself today and got talking to one of little friends mums and she reckons her wee cherub is pretty feral too, which was hard to believe considering how damned cute they all looked in their pink fairy dresses. But I am soooo not foooled!