 (Nick Galifianakis for The Post) | Adapted from an online discussion. Hello, Carolyn: I have a 10-year-old daughter who loves Legos. She has built a world covering the (small) amount of open space in her room. There is an open-air market, a variety of vehicles (from Star Wars ships to RVs to snowmobiles to self-created things with wheels), and two extensive emergency bed areas. There are probably 30-40 people, and every time one of them falls/gets knocked over/loses an appendage, the paramedics come and bring them to the hospital, and she does extensive building/healing/whatever to get them back to the game. ANYway … I was deep-cleaning the rugs. She refused to move her Legos, and I told her if she didn't, someone else would. She cried hysterically, I moved them, some of them got broken. I told her going forward we will be vacuuming her room on a weekly basis, and the Legos will be moved every time. Now she cries, gets angry at me, acts nasty, etc. every time it's brought up, or even when I am around and she is playing with her Legos. I will stick to my guns — OMG she sounds like such a spoiled brat based on this, but I swear this is not how she normally is! — but how do I get through this? I have told her that if she can come up with a good alternate solution/compromise, we can talk. She is an only child, her other parent and I are divorced, and she keeps all her Legos here. — Sticking to My Guns |
