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One of my dcg's is bossy...very, very bossy. She only comes 3 days a week and has been coming for about 18 months now. When she gets here, she usually grabs just a couple toys and stands around demanding that someone play with her and play HER way.
When we go outside, she chooses on or two other children and tries to order them to play with her, to play what she's playing, to play what she wants them to play.
She also will yell at kids who are laughing, "That's not funny!" no matter what they're laughing about, tries to put other kids in time out, tells other kids they need a spanking, tries to tell other kids what to play with and what not to play with, etc. If it involves bossing someone else, she's ALL over it.
Inside or out, if no one is playing with her she tattles on them ("SilverSabre25...she's not playing with me....") OR she sits there pouting and then bursts into tears (this usually happens after I've given her my standard, "dcg, that's tattling and I don't need to hear it" line).
Lately she's at least toning down the tattling--I used to hear about every little thing someone didn't do according to dcg's orders, up to and including, "she's not listening to me" and "she's playing by herself". Instead of tattling though, she's increasing the tendency to just pout and cry. *sigh* I can't win it seems. This is the girl that cries at the drop of a hat anyway ("Hey, dcg! Want to play with playdough?", for example, elicits a hysterical meltdown).
Oh, and the kicker? Sounds like a 3 or 4, even a 5 year old doesn't it? Well, she's only 2, and a young 2 at that. The only good part of the whole thing is that her speech isn't very clear--most of the other kids can't even understand her. I kind of shudder to think what things must be like at home and when she's around her cousins (I know she spends a lot of time around older cousins) for her to have such a good grasp of tattling, bossing, etc, at such a young age. Gah...she's the only 2-year old I've ever known who does this stuff!
When we go outside, she chooses on or two other children and tries to order them to play with her, to play what she's playing, to play what she wants them to play.
She also will yell at kids who are laughing, "That's not funny!" no matter what they're laughing about, tries to put other kids in time out, tells other kids they need a spanking, tries to tell other kids what to play with and what not to play with, etc. If it involves bossing someone else, she's ALL over it.
Inside or out, if no one is playing with her she tattles on them ("SilverSabre25...she's not playing with me....") OR she sits there pouting and then bursts into tears (this usually happens after I've given her my standard, "dcg, that's tattling and I don't need to hear it" line).
Lately she's at least toning down the tattling--I used to hear about every little thing someone didn't do according to dcg's orders, up to and including, "she's not listening to me" and "she's playing by herself". Instead of tattling though, she's increasing the tendency to just pout and cry. *sigh* I can't win it seems. This is the girl that cries at the drop of a hat anyway ("Hey, dcg! Want to play with playdough?", for example, elicits a hysterical meltdown).
Oh, and the kicker? Sounds like a 3 or 4, even a 5 year old doesn't it? Well, she's only 2, and a young 2 at that. The only good part of the whole thing is that her speech isn't very clear--most of the other kids can't even understand her. I kind of shudder to think what things must be like at home and when she's around her cousins (I know she spends a lot of time around older cousins) for her to have such a good grasp of tattling, bossing, etc, at such a young age. Gah...she's the only 2-year old I've ever known who does this stuff!
: Ah, well, at least it's only 3 days a week.
, she was folded on the floor sobbing...like your gal.
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