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Originally posted on r\/Parenting on February 3, 2025 (14:38 UTC) with 85 upvotes and 169 comments.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My daughter is 7 and has always been independent and had zero interest in having us comfort her or help her. She was a colicky baby and cried 90% of her waking hours for at least her first full year. My wife had PPD (not formally diagnosed) for at least as long. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the last few years (after she hit the stage where she can communicate whole ideas), things were improving and we are getting affection from daughter including lots of ‘love you’ and such but we’ve had to constantly remind her to use manners, to follow direction without defiance (literally telling us no when we ask or tell her to clean up something she just spilled all over the floor), and to think about her tone of voice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m an accommodating person, so when daughter rolls her eyes, throws her fists down, and says, ‘fine, I’ll just do it, Dad,’ I can just let it go as my child feeling comfortable expressing her true self. My wife is very different, though. For her, the talking back and the body language are all signs of disrespect that wife is highly sensitive to. I can see my wife slowly deteriorating at constantly feeling put down. Wife even cries to me sometimes and says, ‘I just don’t have the same bond as I have with [son, 10]!’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have no idea how to deal with this anymore. I don’t know if it’s appropriate to tell my daughter that she’s hurting her mother with her inflection and body language or if that will just push daughter to mask her true feelings. I’ve tried to get wife to seek out a therapist but she has seen therapists decades ago for a different issue and she insists it won’t help now. Are there therapists for 7 year olds who could help improve my daughter’s mood?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Originally posted on r\/Parenting on February 3, 2025 (14:38 UTC) with 85 upvotes and 169 comments. Permalink: https:\/\/reddit.com\/r\/Parenting\/comments\/1igqj0h\/daughters_attitude_destroying_my_wife\/ My daughter is 7 and has always been independent and had zero interest in having us comfort her or help her. She was a colicky baby and cried 90% of her waking hours for at least her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18,32],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-1971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends-family","category-moods","category-parenting","tag-reddit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1972,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions\/1972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}