My little sis

[oddsgrlfriend offline]

My sis, I'll call her by her nickname - Ron, is driving me crazy! She is such a brat! She thinks everything is hers! So here's what happened. I have to do a treatment for my weak lungs that's really really boring. Tonight my Dad let me go on his lap top - I'm working on some PowerPoints for fun. Well, Ron usually plays a game on it when she does her treatment. She was in the shower so I figured by time she's done I'll be done. I was wrong. She comes out, sees me with the lap top and flips out! She was lying in her bed crying, CRYING, to my mum because she didn't have it for a few minutes. My mum bought it! She is so ^%^(%(^%%(^ SPOILED! HELP!

[Paige offline]

How old is she?

[oddsgrlfriend offline]

12 years old. She'll be 13 on July 22

[Paige offline]

She is almost 13 and she is acting like that? That is pathetic and ridiculous. She should be way more mature than that by that age!

[The BB of C offline]

If it's something I've learned the hard way, you can't be nice with younger siblings. It could be too late to show her the ropes and who is superior according to Confucious, but it also might not. I think you should crack down on her like something of which I can't make a similie out of right now.

[Jeremified offline]

She is almost 13 and she is acting like that? That is pathetic and ridiculous. She should be way more mature than that by that age!

Yeah... my sister acts better than that... and she's 6!!

[lyokodragoness offline]

I was more mature than her when I was... well, as far back as I can remember. xD;;

You should talk to your sister about how you don't like how she's acting and calmly ask her to change her attitude, then act nice to her for a while. Hopefully she'll get the message that if she changes her attitude good things will come.

If not, then I suggest giving her a taste of her own medicine and act that way to her. If she gets annoyed, tell her that that's how you feel when she acts that way, and repeat the paragraph above.

I don't have any siblings ( I bet so many people hate me now xD;; ), so I don't know too much about handling this, but I try.

[Chosen_one offline]

What the crap... I don't remember ever acting like that. I probably did when I was 5 or 4, but I don't remember that far back.

Why didn't your sister just say she was already using the laptop and ask for it back? That's what I always do first, and I'm twelve and almost thirteen.

Your sister is spoiled. In China (like where my parents and I come from, probably not all of China), I would be considered "spoiled," and I get less respect than most of the people I know. Also in China, if a kids do something bad more than three times, their parents won't forgive them.

Seriously, she's almost thirteen (about the same age as me) and she cries over somebody using a laptop that isn't even hers when she's not using it...

And your mom bought it? That's even worse; she's acting like a five-year-old and your mom is accepting it? That's just wrong.

[The BB of C offline]

I was more mature than her when I was... well, as far back as I can remember. xD;;

You should talk to your sister about how you don't like how she's acting and calmly ask her to change her attitude, then act nice to her for a while. Hopefully she'll get the message that if she changes her attitude good things will come.

If not, then I suggest giving her a taste of her own medicine and act that way to her. If she gets annoyed, tell her that that's how you feel when she acts that way, and repeat the paragraph above.

I don't have any siblings ( I bet so many people hate me now xD;; ), so I don't know too much about handling this, but I try.

Calmness very rarely works with sibling-to-sibling situations such as this. If my older brother was ever nice to me I would never be who I am today and if I was harder on my little brother he would have grown up in line.

[oddsgrlfriend offline]

Ya calmness don't work. Today she's back to being all nice but I'm not buying it. I'm sick of her.

[Sithking Zero offline]

Have you tried Cattle Prods? Those usually work.

Otherwise, I would suggest just talking it out with her, and suggesting time limits for things.

[Tom Bone offline]

Well, then I guess the Boogieman theory won't work if she's 12...

I'm the Boogieman...

[Chosen_one offline]

You should try to get as many of your sister's classmates as you can and tell them about it so they'll make fun of her. Then she ought to at least realize that what she did isn't cool.

[Rudger offline]

good point chosen one but sometimes that backfires because that may be the only way her classmates get their way. then they would encourage her behavior.

I did this to my nephew once. whenver she is acting like a child, record her with video or just audio and when she calms down play it back to her. My nephew was all like "OMG thats what I do when I want something!?" And he has since calmed down and become more mature. Sometimes they just dont even realize what they are doing. And my nephew was 5 about to turn six.

[Paige offline]

good point chosen one but sometimes that backfires because that may be the only way her classmates get their way. then they would encourage her behavior.

I did this to my nephew once. whenver she is acting like a child, record her with video or just audio and when she calms down play it back to her. My nephew was all like "OMG thats what I do when I want something!?" And he has since calmed down and become more mature. Sometimes they just dont even realize what they are doing. And my nephew was 5 about to turn six.

Wow, that is one mature boy.

Seriously

[Rudger offline]

He really is. I am surprised at how mature he acts although he still has touble expressing his emotions because there is no emotions out here in real people world. he has his tantrums but he gets over them soon enough. actually he didnt say OMG yadda yadda... the conversation was more like this

"Do you see that"
*nods head*
"do you know who that is"
*nods head*
"who is it"
"me"
"what do you sound like"
"a big baby"
"do you think its right to act like that"
*shakes head*
"do you know how you should get what you want"
"ask them nicely?"
"thats right. now are you gonna do that anymore"
*shakes head*
"good now go play"

and even with that small amount of talk he has nearly stopped his tantrums and it actually made his brother stop altogether when we did it to him

[The BB of C offline]

Good strategy. I would never have thought of that. I just smack kids on the back of the head when they act bratty.

[Lyoko SA80 offline]

Well if you do that you could get in trouble your parnets or that. But in my case as a Able hand in the sea cadets .I would tell her nice and calm like to whatever she's doing .But if she not listening .I would rise my vocie until .She real got n my nerves and shout putting the fear of god in her.That should work .If you know what I mean. Not tryoig to be a mean guy .Something like a amry major or something