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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 2:35 pm
My oldest is very dramatic and cries a lot over nothing, too. My older sister was the same way. Never forget a thing, and cry about it at the time, and cry about it a week later, and remember it randomly a year later and cry about it again.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 2:42 pm
I realize the need to defend poor little Mady, but the fact that we know of other children who act just as badly doesn't mean Mady isn't acting like a brat. Someone else does it, so that means it's ok? Not really.
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 3:02 pm
I am going to defend Kate here. OK DON'T FAINT! 8 kids, no way they all would agree to what to name one dog, let alone 2. And Mady probably would just pick a different name than the others just to be different. Naja maybe it's just the way you and I were raised, a different time, but I see what you are saying. I was never EVER spanked as a kid, but I knew better than to ack like Mady. It was a good way to get left home the next time. I couldn't believe a few weeks ago when Kate was cleaning the fridge that Mady hit one of the kids and Kate said well they need to stay out of her room, AFTER saying that this one day everybody could go into every room, then the rules would have to be followed. <93> Actually I was watching the show with the carpet installation and found something Kate & I have in common - not making our beds. *L*
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Seattlemom
Member
05-10-2005
| Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 3:35 pm
LOL LOL she is going to have a nervous breakdown cleaning up after those puppys till they are house broke LOL . Never mind if they dig up outside like mine do Ugg she will have her hubby on stand by with mounds of dirt LOL, can you just see the first time they jump on the furniture with dirty paws ,we have a 4 mo old American Bulldog my son sent me for Christmas, and our doxie showed her the joy of Digging, this summer I need to get some dirt delivered to fill the holes 
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 3:42 pm
Seattlemom...use black pepper...just regular household black pepper sprinkled on and around whatever they're digging. Trust me, I have a beagle...I was like yeah right..well she digs no more! And it doesn't hurt them.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 3:44 pm
I have a 13.5 year old German Shepherd that I got at 6 weeks old. The first year of her life was the most aggravating of my life. I am totally STUNNED that Kate decided to get 2 of them at once. I would have gotten one. Then when it was grown and trained, gotten the next. But then I realized this is Kate. She doesn't do anything one at a time...LOL
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 4:26 pm
I was just saying I can relate to having a drama queen and for the life of me I have no clue what to do about it.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 7:03 pm
Don't all of you know miserable, unhappy adults? Well, they were all children once. I think that is Maddy. She is just going to be a 'glass is half empty' person and there is nothing anyone can really do. I think it's just in one's temperment.
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Beekindpleez
Member
07-18-2006
| Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 7:52 pm
Escapee...I think you just sort of do what Kate does for the most part. You just ignore it while it's happening and then try to talk about it calmly as a learning lesson later. That's true, too, Texannie. Some just never "outgrow it", do they? Sigh.
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Roppiepie
Member
05-06-2004
| Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 11:41 pm
Kate is OOC !!! She's so controlling and demanding, ALL the time. I hated her at the end of the episode when then kids in unison said thank-you for the puppies, and she said, "you're NOT welcome".
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 4:28 am
Escapee, my daughter is a drama queen too. And you do just ignore it for the most part. I have found that sometimes even need to ignore the rude behavior because if I do punish her for it, it will just feed her dramatics. The worse thing for her is to be ignored. Now, I have sent her to her room many a time because I don't want to hear it.
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 7:42 am
OK something that I thought I remembered but nobody here mentioned after the move. I'm watching the show where they tell the kids for they are moving [Mady asks for sure this time, so I'm thinking that maybe they were going to move to NC, and it fell through.] Kate tells the girls that Hannah and Leah are in a room together, and Alexis is in a room across the hall by herself because she is a disturber. Yet when they moved into the house Hannah gets the room to herself because of headaches. No drama here, no complaining. Just an observation, that's all.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 8:07 am
Texannie: That's our course of action right now. Instead of punishing her, we say "Go to your room if you are going to cry over NOTHING, we don't want to hear it" and she goes and then comes out just fine. So far that is working. But it's the crying at the drop of a hat that irks me to no end.
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Spitfire
Member
07-18-2002
| Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 9:50 am
I have a drama king and totally feel your pain.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 9:56 am
I have a drama queen too. Keep the ideas coming. I'm learning to ignore and not engage. But if I hear one more time how I'm ruining her life I may explode. She's only 7 for peet's sake. Wait until she's 13 and I DO have to ruin her life.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 10:39 am
Mine's famous line is "Nobody likes me"
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 10:56 am
"Nobody loves me, everybody hates me, Guess I'll go and eat worms, Long slim slimy ones, short fat juicy ones, Itsy bitsy ftlzzy wuzzy worms."
My sis had a bad case of the "Nobody likes me's" when she was oh 4-5. Got to the point noone even had to sing the song, just ask if she wanted a worm and she'd stop it real quick, lol.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 11:02 am
ROFLMAO Wargod. Lilly is so pathetic about it it breaks my heart. Everything has to go just as she wants it to or it's meltdown time. No we say "She's Melting, She's Melting" in our best wicked witch impression. Oy, she hates that. I know, we shouldn't tease her, but she stops when she thinks she MIGHT be entertaining us. Usually us asking her to PLEASE CRY HARDER helps her stop it, but then again it's also telling her to be defiant.
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Beekindpleez
Member
07-18-2006
| Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 11:06 am
Escapee...if it's any consolation, it's STILL a family joke that I ruin everything. And my kids have kids of their own now. LOL Of course, I won't ruin anything for THOSE little darlings. They can do no wrong. HA!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 11:12 am
Sis was horrible, lol. She used to throw the worst temper tantrums and we learned that if you just ignored her, she's stop. I used that technique with my kids (you of course have to keep an eye to make sure they're not hurting themselves.) I actually stepped over Kota one day as she laid on the floor screaming, kicking and wailing. Once she saw she wasn't going to get the attention, she stopped.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 11:33 am
Escapee, how bad is it? I know at our school, they do have the social work teacher work with kids who have a lot of "nobody loves me" type issues. In fact our school is having dh and I fill out an assessment type thing right now on Ryan (because it is time for his 3 year IEP re-evaluation) and on it they repeat some questions in many different ways and one of the ones that keeps getting repeated is: "nobody understands me/nobody loves me/i hate my life/is sad/says i hate myslef/etc..." Ryan gets some social work each week to help him with eye contact and appropriate conversation (he often talks to kids like they are adults) but I know they help all sorts of kids with even very minor problems. The kid behind us is very much a drama kid and gets help each week. There has been a big change due to the school help. So for sure look into it! I don't think everyone is aware of the types of help that a school district can (and is required to) offer.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 11:39 am
I've asked at school if DD does her dramas there and it doesn't seem she does the "nobody likes me" there -- it's just at home, for my benefit. She seeks her dramas an attention via the school nurse. I've said she keeps the nurse fully employed! What impresses me is how she can cry and wail and really fool me that it's real, but can turn it off in a fraction of a second. It's Meryl Streep quality acting!
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 11:43 am
That's why they have the parents (each independently) and the teacher(s) fill out these forms.
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Panda
Member
07-15-2005
| Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 11:44 am
Drama king here, too. Could be the age but he's been like this since infancy..lol Wargod-funny saying, I have a friend who says jokingly that she will go eat a worm sandwich whenever she thinks we ignore her. Now I know where that comes from! I think it's interesting on how different kids personalities can be with the same parents, same rules, same upbringing. What better way to witness that than on this show? I think we don't get to see enough of the personalities on the Duggar's show. I keep telling myself that #2 will be relaxed and laid back, right?
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Panda
Member
07-15-2005
| Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 11:45 am
Bee- I love your last line! 
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