Maybe this is an age thing but all I see in my daughter is someone who's becoming increasingly spiteful, sneaky and dishonest. If I've done nothing else as a mother I've kept up with the honesty from day one, so where does this stuff come from?? Could it be the grandparents saying 'don't tell Mummy'?? Could it be her understanding that her classmates won't be her 'friends' if she's as mean to them as she is to her family?? I just don't get it and it's driving me crazy. I want the kind of relationship that Lenora and her DD have, that I have with my own mother, where she's still almost the first person I turn to for advice (after DH).

my daughter's behaviour at the moment makes me want to cry. I just hope that when she's about 13 I can be as proud of her as Lenora is of her DD, but I don't know how to get from here to there, or whether I'm supposed to let nature take its course - how can I??

late night misery and rambling. She had a streak of calculated evil behind her eyes earlier and I don't know what I can do about it.

Kerri.