laurel, thank you so much for your post. You seem to think the same way I do. DD is a delightful child, always a little mischievous but never difficult until now.I know she needs to know very clearly what is wrong and what is right. But at the same time, she needs help if she is having problems controlling her impulses. Also, I think she is needing more attention from me now that she has started preschool. She complained yesterday about how her teacher sometimes doesn't listen to her. She is a good teacher but I can understand how she might not pay as close attention to everything dd has to say when she has other kids to attend to. I do a lot of fun stuff with her and when we are doing that, she is her delightful self again.