Is 9 too young for girls to have mood swings? My SD9 has been so moody lately. Mom lives across the country and sees her twice a year. So guess what that means? We get her 24/7 and I mean that literally. She doesn't go to friend's houses or even grama's. I just need a break and can't take it anymore! I have a hard time loving a child who isn't mine, God do I try though. I spend a lot more time w her than DH bc he works late some nights. I just don't know how much more I can take- she doesn't even look at me as a mother figure...at all. Sorry, just had to vent.

Sd9 mom lives across the country and sees her twice a year...Result? Sd lives w us full time...and I mean fullll time....too afraid to spend the nite anywhere. So why does sd tell mom when she calls once a month that she's the best mommy in the World? I'm more of a mother figure and yet I can't get used tothat idea and feel like I can't step upand be that for her. She's cold to me and barely hugs me goodnite. Any Advice?

So BM is coming home tomorrow for the first time since she moved across the country in May. SD9 is anxious of course, who wouldn't be after not seeing their mother for 7 months? However, she has been picking fights with me for the last week which she never ever does. (now with her father that's a different story) She has to be right about EVERYTHING and will argue with me when she knows she's wrong.

I have a 9 yr old sd whose father thinks she can do no wrong. I have a 3 month old baby girl with him and as a first time mom I would like to think she'll do no wrong too but I know that's not true. Anyway, one night she told him to shut up and I was in the hall doing laundry, heard it and peeked around the corner and said "Young lady, we don't talk like that in this house." Her eyes bugged out like she couldn't believe I heard that and started to cry crocodile tears because she knows daddy hates to see her cry.