My daughter is 3 years old and started at nursery in September. She has been looking forward to it since she could walk, and would see the building on our walks and ask to go!
However, she now comes home sombre and quiet. She says it is stressful, as the children are too loud, they snatch things, and she would rather play alone.
I can see what she means- she has never hit or snatched other children even when she was tiny and instead resolves issues diplomatically, which doesn't work when other children are more typically boisterous, as per their age group. She holds intelligent, adult-like conversation, which they don't understand; she keeps up with politics with me for eg, she enjoys wordplay, making puns, playing with rhyme & metaphor for humour (as well as the endless poop jokes, she is still 3.)
She is very advanced, I struggle to keep up with her at home; she already grasps the concept of light refraction, categorises her toy dinosaurs & animals as bipeds or quadrupeds, can count to 20+ recognising numbers up to 100, do simple mathematics, copied the shape of chords on her toy piano at home after seeing her grandfather play his once, and was disappointed it only played one key at a time... But she is really sociable. She loves making friends and loved events with other children such as at the childminders, or playgroups. Everybody got on well with her, but that was in a mix of ages, and she always played best with children a year or two older than herself as they played in the same way. Now, she is struggling and I don't know what to do about it.
I am a student parent, I will be starting uni next year & currently on pre uni course so can't home educate, and I do want her to learn social skills, but I want to be able to support her as it's sad seeing her come home from nursery visibly morose and saying she's stressed. Does anyone have any advice?
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Rixera · 09/10/2018 10:29
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