DD is nearly 4, and a wonderful, clever and sparky little girl. I have often found her behaviour quite challenging. She finds it difficult to regulate her emotions, and is going through a stage of really poor behaviour at nursery.
She's been hitting, kicking, biting and today she was even spitting, which I feel awful about 😢. It's not every day, but more often than not that she's having a bad day. She skips in quite happy and I remind her of behavioural expectations every day. I hate to think of her hitting other children. After a difficult morning, she was apparently great all afternoon, helping and comforting another little one who was crying.
We were seeing this behaviour at home lots earlier in the year, but over the past few months things have really improved. A lot has happened this year- my Dad was ill and died in really difficult circumstances, DH got made redundant, I went back to work, she had to change nurseries. While I've tried to shield her from as much of the stress as possible, maybe I haven't done enough.
After lots of negative reports at pick up over the last few weeks, I got the nursery to meet with me yesterday to discuss strategies. They said they were really concerned about her behaviour, but couldn't tell me what's triggering it so have now agreed to keep a diary of incidents and to call me to handover, rather than give me a negative report at the door. I've also asked them to involve the council SENCO.
My question is, I suppose, is what happens if things don't improve? Can they ask us to leave? If it's our parenting, or there's a SEN to consider, I need to know one way or another. I'm just so worried about her 😢