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4 year old terror
i reciently started babysitting for a four year old girl who we'll call kim and and her 18 month old sister we'll call lynn. kim has this problem where if she doesn't get what she wants she gets really ugly. she truelly is a terror. she swears at her own family, expecially her grandma who is the nicest lady in the world. she is a total jerk to her sister and anyone who watches her or even her own family. I don't know what to do with her, we'll play games and she'll still get really angry. i need some advice on how to keep a crazy 4 year old child who can yell for hours on end accupied for a few hours while trying to care for her younger sister at the same time.
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Well I really know what that is like and trust me on that she is like the devil from hell. What I would do Is threaten her like tell her I'm going to call your mom. My sister when I watch her she says no to me when I tell her to do something and I mean I am 15 going on 16 and she is 8 BIG AGE DIFFERENCE and I feel like killing her sometimes really I do and everytime I tell my parents. She does it again its really frustrating and I'm sure you know how it is but tell there parents and there parents will deal with it hopefully they will do something. Well I hope this helps.
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If she's too much to handle, call a friend up to help you take care of one of them while you get to know the 4 year old. But ask her parents to see if it's ok first. Read books to her, & play more games etc. In the meantime, you should probably ask her parents what she's been eating lately, because certain foods create bad or good moods depending on what it is. For example, chocolate. TONS of people get very mad if they eat too much of it! Consider what she's consuming & ask if it's ok to experiment by taking chocolate or peanut butter (or what you think is causing the problem) out of her diet while you're over. Or this may just be a cry for attention because her parents aren't around and she misses them. If this becomes too much of a problem I advise you to stop babysitting for these people. But if you're persistant to help her then, just watch some movies and I hope everything works out.
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find out what she`s really interested in, something that will make her calm. for instance, this one little boy i use to babysit could sit and play video games for hours and he wouldn`t be as crazy as if he couldn`t play video games.
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