Dd's 2.3 and today was her first settling in session for nursery which she's going to attend 9-12pm 3 mornings a week. I think it went ok, though I've yet to actually leave her there which will be a different story I know!
The staff all seemed nice etc. and I was generally happy with things but for one thing. A new boy was also starting today, he's going to be full time and is nearly 3 but really big and stocky. He was so incredibly forceful and aggressive with the other kids and screaming and destroying everything in sight. I think the staff were quite bothered by him and they called his mum a couple of times as he got into frantic rages. They said she didn't want to do a 'settling in' period and had just dropped him off to start full time this week when he's never been to nursery before. They'd tried to persuade her not to do this but she said she thought he'd be fine and to call her if he got upset.
I was only there for a couple of hours and by the time I left he'd had about 5 or 6 kids in tears already and the staff were having to follow him around everywhere (he even tried to 'attack' one of them with some kiddy scissors) and it left me feeling pretty worried about leaving dd there until he settles down a bit more.
What would you do? Do you think his behaviour might be an extreme reaction to being left like that suddenly by his mum? If so it should settle down, no?
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dd's first nursery settling in today: problem with another child?
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bluemoon · 04/01/2005 14:43
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