Hard growing old

It must be hard turning 7.  Maybe it does crazy things to you.  Or maybe it is just my daughter that is crazy.  Or maybe all kids do this, and I am just learning.  Needless to say, some days my daughter comes home from school and she is the nice, sweet, loving, Payton I have always known.  And some days she comes home and is rude, uses words like "butt" (that she knows is not allowed), and just doesn't care.  It is so frustrating.  Thankfully, (right now) the good Payton is here way more often than the not so good Payton. 

But I can't figure out why she does the thing she does.  Is she testing me?  Seeing how I will react?  Or did she just have a bad day and takes it out on her family?  Last night she was crying in bed and said she didn't want to grow up.  She said she is afraid when she grows up that nothing will be fun anymore and she will have to do grow up stuff.  Like 10 years old scared her, she said.  WHAT?  Part of me wonders if her classmates are telling her stuff?  Where would she come up with that?  And then part of me wonders if she feels left out since the rest of us are home all day having "fun" while she is at school.

 So, tonight, I told her that I needed to run to the store, but since it was late, only a big kid can come with me.  She said, "Me!".  I was hoping to show her that growing up can be fun and you get to do different stuff than little kids. So, she came with me to the store and the trip ended with her in tears at the end.  I don't even know what happened.  We were walking to the car and all of a sudden to had her arms crossed and was scowling.  I asked her what was wrong and she said "Nothing" (with attitude).  In my true fashion, I kept bothering her to tell me, then she started yelling that I was making her mad, etc.   Seriously?  She is only six?  Where is this all coming from?  I feel like I live in crazytown.  And she is only six?  Her emotions are CRAZY!  Is this what I have in store x 4 ?!?!?