What should I do about my 6 year old's behavior?

She steals from me, she lies, she screams at me, she likes to play with overly sexualized dolls (LOL dolls) and watch inappropriate sexual youtube videos about touching butts.

My husband encourages it by buying her these dolls. He lets her watch these videos on her tablet with no parental blocking programs. I got into an argument with him yesterday about it. I refuse to give her tablet back to her. She is watching naked people at the beach!!

I threw away the stupid sexual doll after doing a lot of research on the brand. When he bought it for her i really was super upset and he made fun of me! He made fun of me when he first met me and i was a virgin. Then he turns the table around and says i am mean, no wonder my kids hate me. My kids hate me because i am not like him. I don't let them watch sex videos all day. I don't spend hundreds of dollars on sex toys for them. I am so mad right now.
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  • There are ways to limit and control the content your child can access on The Internet. I'm a network engineer, and I can turn you into one of those scary parents that have complete and total control over what is accessed over their home network.

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  • She is a child and you are here parent. She isn't supposed to be your friend.

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  • Why are you married to him and why did you select him to be the father of your children?

    • He told me he liked me. I thought he loved me. I thought maybe we were in love. I thought he was a nice guy.

    • And now you know differently?

    • I can't really compare as he is my one and only.

  • I have to wonder if she's been sexually abused by your HB. maybe he just thnks it's fun or not a problem. no idea what you are talking about with dolls...

    I don't know.

    honestly, this is a mess. you get no support to be a parent, you are always wrong and the bad person being strict, husband does not respond to you and your concerns.

    I'd take her to therapy with you. you think it's bad now?

    I think there is cause to take all that stuff and the video games and absolutely smash them to bits. Could try to take it to court or divorce. that's a jacked up mess though.

    my bulb not working on this one...

  • That is pretty weird that your hubby is okay with all that sexual stuff. Like my son is 6 and does find bad videos online with cussing and violence but me and my husband both stop him everytime from watching it. It's really not okay for kids to be watching anything bad but especially the sexual stuff I'd be drawing a line on. Just put a block on the tablet or delete whatever app she's watching that stuff on.

  • I'm not sure there is much you can do unfortunately. I'd recommend taking a mother daughter day though. Then taking her to play around kids her own age.

    Expose her to other 6 year olds.

    To me, it's less about forcing her and more about letting you and her peers encouraging good behavior.

    Even putting her in a day school if it's possible to afford would be a great way to help to have better behavior. Simply because trying to enforce it with her father might be difficult and with kids they will keep on pushing and having fun with boundaries because it's fun but at this age she is still learning. Let her see what other people are doing and be encouraged to follow their behavior. I think she wants to be accepted more than taking her stance. So use that to your advantage

  • The fuck is wrong with your husband... Tell him the dangers of expressing children to sexualized content especially on the internet and also how it affects body image.

    And suggest that instead you give your kids proper sexual education as a replacement. Of course you don't say everything to a 6yo but the basics like the private parts and good touch vs bad touch etc.

    And for your daughter try to enroll her into something that she can be busy with. A dance class, art class, sports, anything. If not possible because of covid then try to find some kind of online course for kids, my 7yo niece was addicted to YouTube and my sister enrolled her in an online class that teaches about our religion, she is completely over her YouTube addiction now and enthusiastically participates in their online competitions. She is learning new things and having fun with it.