I have loved Ciara, I think Lauren Boles, who plays her, does an absolutely fabulous job with the role.
That said, I am having a very hard time with this sneaky, underhanded, back-talking little girl. We make jokes about that pink backpack, but the fact remains that she has hidden things that were important to adults in there. She blackmailed Sami into buying her all those expensive earrings, (though Sami was an idiot to do so). She WAS picking on Connor in the school yard, and now, not only did she have a tantrum with her mother, she was truly snotty to Aiden.
O.K. so it makes for an "interesting" child (compared to Parker, for instance) but Hope really doesn't appear to even try to deal with this. Me thinks they are due for a visit to Dr. Phil.