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Fake Crying

Shay4sterShay4ster member
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My daughter is 4 and has recently started this fake crying routine, and it's driving me nuts!  And when she wants, she can easily turn it off.  Anyone else have experience with this and have suggestions on how to get it to stop?  

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Re: Fake Crying

  • LoveEeyoreLoveEeyore member

    Ignore it.  Is she trying to make you do something? Ignore.  Is she trying to get out of something?  Ignore it.  Address the thing she should be doing.  Ignore the crying.  Is she trying to get attention? Ignore it.  It will stop when it no longer successfully gets her what she is wanting. 

    You could take a risk and boohoo with her.  Dramatically boohoo and enlist her teddy bear to help you.  Hysterically use a shoe as a stethoscope to examine her for injury.  Tell teddy bear it sounds like her belly button is broken, find the belly button, zerbert and apply a bandaid.  Whatever. 

    The first approach is how I handle my girls who might use it to manipulate.  The second approach is what I would do for my ultrasensitive boy.

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  • 74dragonfly74dragonfly member
    Ignore.




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  • iumegan716iumegan716
    I tell DS that I know he's faking and I walk away.  
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  • RaeAntRaeAnt member
    With DS, I think part of the reason he does it is because he hears/sees DD doing it to get what she wants. Difference is, she only just turned a year old and doesn't have words. We pretty much what she wants by how she cries so DS assumes he can do the same thing since words aren't getting him what he wants. If you have a LO, that may have something to do with it.
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