Does my daughter have control issues?

Question

My 7yo is going through a stage where she doesn't want to be away from me. She will not go play, or go to grandmas house anymore. She used to be a very outgoing social little girl but not anymore. I at first thought she was going through some late form of seperation anxiety, so I dealt with it on that level. When it got worse, headaches, bellyaches, crying about going places even when I was with her, I became more concerned that something may have happened that she was not talking about. I started taking her to a pyscologist and her doctor. They can find out nothing. The problem is that now that I have lost my job over this, and she seems to want my attention more, like she will say she can't go to bed till I do, and wake her up when I get up which I don't give in to. I am at my witts end here. I feel like she is just trying to control what I do and when I do it, doing it in a manipulative way so I think there is something wrong. I hate thinking that about her, but what else is it?

Answer 1

Being that this is a total reversal in her personality, I would say that something must be wrong.  Someone or something very bad must have happened for her to suddenly start behaving this way.  Get her a new doctor and get to the bottom of this.

Answer 2

um locker in the basement.

Answer 3

I would try a different doctor!  It seems like maybe she has phobia of things.  It sounds like she fears alot of things.

Answer 4

I have a daughter who will be 7 in a couple of weeks, and she does sometimes want to be with me, but not extreme like you described.  I would not be quick to label it as "controlling you" though.  I think I would get another opinion on this, though, because the root of this could be just a phase, or much more.  

With our kids, better to be safe.