My cousin's daughter has behavior problems. She is 5 years old. My cousin is a stay at home Mom and her daughter yells at her, tells her she is a bad Mom. Whenever she is in time-out she tells her Mom she hates her. Just recently they were on a road trip and her Mom stopped the car so she could have her in time out for 6 minutes and she said "why don't you just run me over with the car so I can die". I told her I thought that was her way of taking back power. My cousin is a wonderful Mom and loves and takes good care of her children. Is this normal of a 5 year-old?

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is normal kids are so cruel . but they are lovely too

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All children act this way to some extent. I just think the problem here is that the parent isn't trying the best form of discipline for her child. Instead of punishing severely for wrong doings, why doesn't she try positive re-enforcement? Instead of punishing the child for being bad and yelling, when is being quiet and good tell her what a good girl she is and how you love her behavior when she's like this. This may work better because the child just sounds like she wants attention.

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It sounds like the little girl has realized the power of her words. She most likely knows that saying certain things will get a reaction and may get an adult to feel bad enough to stop punishing her. I knew a girl who did this and she only did it because then her parents would pick her up, out of her time-out, to cuddle her and try to get her to 'feel better'. Keep with the time outs. Time does not start until there is complete silence, if she speaks time starts over. Ignore it. When she realizes the words have no power she may just stop.Now... if she is saying these things when she is NOT angry then take her to a doctor to have her checked out. if she says it only when she is MAD... then she is trying to manipulate the adults around to feel guilty enough to not punish her. Normal 5 yr old stuff.

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Not normal for a five year old but maybe a 15 year old!!! Where is this little girl learning this stuff? Well anyway, your cousin should not let this bother her. In this case "fight fire with fire" is the best answer i can give. If she does that stuff say "well since you don't seem to care that you are in time out, i should give you a punishment you will care about. No TV, AND no play time for the rest of the day. Oh, and by the way You will sit in a 10 minute time out every day for a week." And if she continues "well since you seem to enjoy that idea so much you have two days of not TV or play time and its 15 minutes of timeout instead." Add 1 day and 5 minutes for every time she carries on, do this until you get to 5 days and 30 minutes. At that point she gets an hour's worth of chores. If she's going to act like a brat then she gets treated like a brat, MAKE THAT CLEAR!!!!

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no its no and you should do more than time out...... do what my mom did to me swat them!!!! thatll garauntee she'll behave her shelf

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