How can I teach my five year old daughter that the world is not perfect? She gets so worked up when her Barbie’s hair is out of place or if the cupboards don’t close right in her Barbie Dream house. She cries and yells that everything is “unperfect!” Life around here is terrible when she gets a balloon, because she doesn’t understand that the balloon will deflate. She constantly worries about her pants wearing out in the knees. She will ask me a million times if the pants are going to rip. If I tell her yes, she cries. So I lie and tell her no, fully aware that the pants won’t make it another month. Day after day after day, I scramble around trying to make things perfect for her. Yet, nothing is perfect enough. I try to explain to her that the world is not perfect. Barbie’s hair will get messy, her pants will rip, and balloons will pop. She doesn’t want to accept the fact that the world is not perfect. The more I try the worse she gets. It’s becoming quite frustrating. Other than this one problem, she really is a great person. She’s smart, funny, helpful and very compassionate. I just don’t know how to fix this one thing. I hope it’s just a phase and she will get over it soon. I hate seeing her go through it as much as I hate having to deal with it.