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I have a 9 Y/O DCG who cries constantly every single time we try to do an activity. She pretends to get hurt for attention and then will cry and cry and cry until another DCK pays attention to her. (I used to go running to her until I figured out what she is all about) I tell her now that I have been in this business long enough to know when a child is really hurt and when they are looking for attention.
This ain't my first rodeo, I've had kids this age like this before.
Anyway now that school is out we have been doing a lot more activities. Friday we had a campout type day with a water balloon fight. She cried when someone hit her TOO hard with a water ballon (These things were bursting in my hands with no pressure so there is no way she got hurt), then she cried because she *hurt* her leg when we went looking for sticks to roast marshmallows (Not even a scratch or red mark on her and all the other DCKS said she didn't even fall).
Yesterday we went to the beach and she cried because she apparently got stung by a jellyfish (After a DCG actually did..DCG had red marks, this little one did not)
Today she started to cry about 10 minutes after we started to play at the park..she claims she hurt her back on the slide. Really? On the slide??
Anyway I lost it because this has been going on for a year now and I told everyone we were packing up and hitting the road. All the DCKS were surprised but they are equally annoyed with this kid. They will come over to me now and say "**** got hurt...again, oh and she is crying."
When they asked me why we were leaving, I said it was because I am done with DCG getting hurt every single time we do anything special so we are going home.
I felt kinda bad for the bad reaction but it taught her a lesson since all the kids were uber annoyed with her that they had to leave.
One more day with her and then she heads off to camps for a month. Yay. I will be able to plan fun stuff with the kids again!
This ain't my first rodeo, I've had kids this age like this before.
Anyway now that school is out we have been doing a lot more activities. Friday we had a campout type day with a water balloon fight. She cried when someone hit her TOO hard with a water ballon (These things were bursting in my hands with no pressure so there is no way she got hurt), then she cried because she *hurt* her leg when we went looking for sticks to roast marshmallows (Not even a scratch or red mark on her and all the other DCKS said she didn't even fall).
Yesterday we went to the beach and she cried because she apparently got stung by a jellyfish (After a DCG actually did..DCG had red marks, this little one did not)
Today she started to cry about 10 minutes after we started to play at the park..she claims she hurt her back on the slide. Really? On the slide??
Anyway I lost it because this has been going on for a year now and I told everyone we were packing up and hitting the road. All the DCKS were surprised but they are equally annoyed with this kid. They will come over to me now and say "**** got hurt...again, oh and she is crying."
When they asked me why we were leaving, I said it was because I am done with DCG getting hurt every single time we do anything special so we are going home.
I felt kinda bad for the bad reaction but it taught her a lesson since all the kids were uber annoyed with her that they had to leave.
One more day with her and then she heads off to camps for a month. Yay. I will be able to plan fun stuff with the kids again!
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