Okay, dd is 2.9 and a very happy outgoing sociable bouncy little girl.
she is also very talkative, very persistant and quite stubborn and can have a stampy foot moment up there with the best of 'em.
she's been with CM for over 18m now and CM and I are pretty much on the same page (she's a bit stricter than me but I think that's a good think with my rational head - heart says different but hey ho LOL).
CM has older DC of her own and younger mindees.
DD is very articulate but doesn't always get the facts straight in her re-telling of events etc, perfectly normal for a child her age.
Anyways, recently she has begun to blow hot and cold wrt CM and CMs house. Some days she loves everyone, other days she is "sad" and "not happy" which breaks my heart.
She is an only child and I actually think it's good for her to mix with other kids of different ages and to learn that attention has to be shared etc.
This week tho, she's told me that CMs DC are "mean" and "kick her" (altho she did say CM makes DC apologise). She's just starting to experience older kids exclusion and so on as well. Family party yesterday and the 6/7yr old girls wouldn't let her join in etc.
I am worried about her being in a setting where she's unhappy but when I pick her up she's full of smiles and talk of her activities for the day etc. I just get the impression that there are flashpoints in the day where she's getting/being upset by both CM and other kids.
Am I being totally PFB about this? Am worried about talking to CM as don't want to put her back up. Am hoping to move area by end of year so don't want to move dd now then again before we relocate, but equally don't want her to be stuck somewhere that she's not being heard etc.
CM tends to brush off cross/sad behaviour in a bit of a disparaging way which I don't really like etc.
Have visions of dd crying for being kicked (probably after she's bugged the other kid to be fair but....) then told not to make a fuss etc.
Arg! Is it stupid of me to expect her to be happy 100% of the time whilst in childcare?
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Slightly concerned that dd isn't 100% happy with CM. WWYD?
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Paddlechick666 · 28/07/2008 08:30
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