Thursday, 6 April 2017

Daycare expects my very tall 2.5 year old to behave like a 4-5 year old because other toddlers think he's older and they can copy him. Not sure how to handle this.


So we moved to a new at-home daycare last month and it's been mostly good except for the last week. My son has been opening doors that are adults-only because he's tall and strong enough to open them. And his misbehavior is spreading to the other kids because he looks like a 'big kid'.We've been talking to him every morning about how the doors are for grownups and he needs to ask his teachers to open them. But so far he's not really listening.In my conversation with N, the owner of the daycare, she didn't really seem to care that he's not 4 and being held to the expectation of a 4 year old isn't really fair. All I really got from that was 'Yeah...but it's hard cause he's tall"I feel like he's being set up to fail on this one. Not that he should be opening doors, but that they aren't going to be understanding when he has a bad day or isn't going to work with him to learn because it seems like he's just excepted to know this. We've been having some of the same trouble at home over the front door and the garage door.I'm scared he's going to get kicked out from being tall and in the middle of his terrible 2-3's... via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2o1AbRS

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