We're in trouble

[pas_beancounter]

So Ella has been having accidents as of late. She gets really mad and pees. She's been to the doctor twice in the last week because we were sure that she was sick and the first time she probably was. After all, she spent Friday night with a temp between 101 and 102 and was vomiting. On Saturday, the doctor told us a virus has been going around

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[pas_beancounter]

I'm not sure if we need a child psychologist or not. She is getting pushed at pretty hard from both of us right now. We're not letting her get away with running around the house like an Aborigine anymore. She must wear clothes. That's been making her pretty mad. She pees because of her dad too. Most of this has started since he came back from DC. That seems to have caused a lot of problems. When he would put her to bed, she would get mad and throw a fit. The culmination of that would be her urinating in her bed. I should have explained the peeing on me and in my shoes better. I had my legs loosely crossed and was on the floor with her. She was standing in the middle of my legs. When she got to her boiling point, I thought she has finally calmed down. Instead, she peed and it got on me. With the shoes, she was wearing my shoes and walking all around the house. She got mad because Rich wasn't with her because oddly enough he wanted to take a shower. When she didn't get her way, she peed and my shoes were filled.

She's having big issues about Rich. She doesn't want him to leave the house or go into any other rooms without her. She wants him with her at all times. I have had to discipline her more frequently but I don't think I've done anything outrageously wrong in it. Mostly it's been the naughty spot. A couple of times I had to give her a swat. I've been trying to eliminate those as much as possible because I don't want to swat first and then regret it. It just been very difficult. Her neediness is starting to wear on Rich. He's not getting a break. We both feel badly for her. We don't understand what is going on. We figured the fact that he went away and came back would have been a good thing for her because she would learn that he comes back. I just don't know. Do you really think we'd benefit from a child psychologist? Do you know anything about them?

We're leaving for Phoenix on Sunday morning and neither of us is looking forward to being on a plane with her given the current circumstances. I can only hope that the novelty of it will subdue her as it did yesterday when we were at the polls. She was a gem there and at the store. So far it's mostly at home where she's acting out.

[ceejishi]

Wow, Freud would have fun with this one!