Do your Daughter or Kids take advantage of you?

I don't know if the term "take advantage of you" is correct. They are, however, willing to "Test" your boundries. From the time they were born the way they learn is by testing boundries. Think about it...You say "Don't touch the stove" Then you look away and what do they do? The start to reach for the stove, all the while looking back at you to see if you are watching and what you will do. They are testing their boundries. As they grow older they begin to push more as their intelect and logic increases so do their techniques. It's all the same. They want to know "Where do I stop and you begin." "What can I do and what is REALLY off limits." Embrace the opportunity to set down solid boundries. It is a great learning experience that will last them a lifetime.

They are all brats and they think we were put on this earth to take care of them.

My girls have never tried to take advantage of me, or anyone else. Even when they were little they didn't try 'stuff.' I am so blessed with good kids:-) That's too bad, hopefully your daughter will change as she grows older. She's lucky having a wonderful Mother like you, it may take a while, but I'm sure she'll eventually figure it out.

My daughter does that to me sometimes. she will ask me for something and I do it for her and then she talks to me like a dog right afterwards. She doesn't do it very often any more though. She never keeps my money though or spends the extra.

Sometimes ..especially my youngest..That has been the way of parents and their children from the beginning of time..It only happens because we allow it out of love.. xoxoxoxoxo

My kids are always nice to me even I'm not with them. lol Because I am able to built in them the love and respect for me as their mother. Even at the young age, they already values me. And I am so proud of it.

Oh yes, all the time. My only child is forever twisting me around his little finger and cant say that I don’t enjoy it either. I have not yet started sending him to the shops so don’t know about that somehow he gets everything he wants from me so smoothly that sometimes I really wonder if its actually me or the mother inside me that is being taken for a ride lol!

lol i am afraid its the lot of a parent. I have two and i feel ripped off on a regular basis but its done with i smile, how can i object? blessed be

Most kids do not take advantage of the kindness of their parents but the ones that do have to be informed of the reality of the matter. So speak up and make sure your daughter knows that she cannot take advantage of you.

Yes, my kids do it also, but they already know me, they know that I let them do it, and they know when I don't approve of it, I definitely will let them know! I love my kids, and all of them have turned out real good, they give me the same respect that I treated them with, and we have a good relationship!

Thankfully, my kids are still way too young for those sorts of games, but they do try to get away with other things, like taking non soft toys to bed.

How old is your daughter may i ask? Yea children really go through a phase wherein they wouldn't really care whether they follow you or not. Let us take this issue from different factors: One, she might have been tolerated or maybe not reprimanded properly about money issues and how reality bites out of money..Two, it's her environment that is beyond our control..she takes that action as a necessity to savor her "needs" which are really wants by the way. Well as you put it..all children do it, but they can grow out of it. All that needs to be done is a constant gentle reminder from a mother who understands. By the way, i should know..i have a five year old who takes advantage wit my jewelries, as young as she is, she quite tastes vanity.Oh well, we bore them, in a nutshell, it was us who gave the opportunity =) Good luck to that!