I have been caring for a little dcg for about 6 months now. She has been a difficult child from the start. Something is ALWAYS going on with this child. She still cries a lot (often because she doesn't get her own way), and I just put her in a different room until she stops, because it disrupts the other children. I dread the days it is just her and my son because they just egg each other on and I pretty much have to deal with two whining/crying children the entire day. She always wants to be held (which I refuse to do) and as a result, she whines and cries.
Have any of you experienced a child like this? What have you done to try and curb this behaviour?
I've tried ignoring, putting her is a different room, etc... but nothing seems to work. It is exhausting to deal with and I often feel like terminating on this alone, but it just doesn't seem like enough to get rid of someone....