Maybe it's because I'm the only one with a wildly emotional, tantrum at the drop of a hat, nothing works out and everything sucks, 10 year old? Barring that being the case, perhaps it's because everyone else has this parenting thing figured out by the time their spawn is 10...?
Lei has always been a very intense kid. She came roaring into the world 3 weeks early, and there are very few moments she has not been roaring, since!
Love her to bits and pieces, somehow we'll get through this emotional phase and she'll be better equipped to deal with life's ups and downs. I don't ever want her to lose her passionate emotional self, I really believe it is part of her personality and that it is going to allow her to gift others with support and empathy. My goal is merely to support and guide her as she works through the process of growing up to be herself.
Even if that means telling her to choose a nicer way of saying and doing things, 10 million times per day.
We'll get through.
Many, many of my friends with female children have described this. One ,minute they are passionately involved in changing the world, the next, they've clawed their sister's eyes out because she looked at them funny.
ReplyDeleteOne ofmy friends described 10 as the new 13, mainly because puberty ( and all it brings with it) often starts earlier, yet they are less emotionally equipped to handle the changes than if they were 13 or 14.
Hang in there momma.