Daughter trouble

Lateley our eldest daughter starts crying every day round about 6.30 pm. Yesterday she cried because she didn't win at chess, today she cried because she wants to be small again and be cuddled and to sleep in our bed, and she wants to be better at inline skating, and she really doesn't want the Easter holidays to start. She hates holidays. She wants to learn. She also has acute jealousy issues, both with regard to her sister and the other kids at school - apparently two of her friends didn't invite her to their birthday party. But they did invite Antonia, Tina's best friend, the child I look after three days a week. Looking back I am beginning to wonder if this jealousy isn't causing her to regress. She is always sucking on her fingers and making squealy noises. She is intellectually smart for her seven years of age (learns English really fast and is good at maths, reads relly well, and yesterday she discovered that there is such a thing as alliteration in a song I sang to her, etc), but emotionally she seems to be regressing. *sigh*
What now? I don't want to drag her off to therapists and what not. When she's happy she's cute, smart and often funny, helpful and even mature, looking after her sister. She went inline skating with her dad, the first time ever, and looked really good. This mixture of burning ambition and emotional dependency is exceedingly stressful for the whole family. Trying to comfort her is mentally and emotionally exhausting. :-(

Wesley article - more postcards - mystery writing - Ethan

sangpassionne pointed me towards this well-written article on Wesley. It's amazing how Josey and I independently end up doing similar things. We both wrote our Spikeslashficathon stories about the same pairing, and somehow we both picked the same metaphor for our stories. Bright minds?

I received two more postcards today, one from miniera (1 of 4) and one from tesserae_. Wheee! *smoooch!*

I also found out that there are books for mystery-writers that deal with forensics, poisons, and criminal psychology. The series is called Howdunits - unfortunately the reviews at amazon are very mixed. So I put one on my wishlist and will order it if it's ever on special offer.

Now that my Spikeslashficathon story is finished it's time to work on my Ethanficathon assignment. I was wondering, is it possible that Ethan is the son of a Watcher and that he was initially destined to become a Watcher as well, only he chose a different path? That's how I always saw him, aftter all he was Giles's dark mirror, but I haven't read any fic to support that idea, which makes me wonder if everybody else knows something I don't know....