You need to work on your sons behaviour

[dailyukelele]

This was said to me by his preschool. He's 3 years old. I tentatively asked what he'd done and apparently it's not kicking, punching or rudeness. It's that he won't sit down or still for group story time.

So I asked how I work on getting him to sit still. They said I need to bribe him to do something sitting like colouring that he doesn't want to do then reward him. He doesn't really get the reward system. He has no motivation to get a sticker. I tried chocolate button for sitting on the toilet when potty training and despite a love of chocolate he wouldn't do it. He's very stubborn and it does take a long time to get him to do things he doesn't want to (brush teeth, put coat on)

I said to preschool he generally has quite a short attention span going from one thing to the next often and they said it's not that, it's behaviour. They said it will be an issue at school if he doesn't learn now. I just thought he's a 3 year old active boy.

It's normal for some 3 yr olds not to be potty trained yet too. Loads of them pick their noses or blow them on their sleeves or need adult help to blow their noses. It's normal for some of them not to have got the hang of dressing themselves yet. It's normal for them to sometimes forget to use a knife and fork for their tea. Doesn't mean it isn't worth having a go at helping and encouraging them to develop.

Has he had his eye check? My son was like this and turned out he has really bad eyesight. Felt terrible

Exactly want mightbiteatnight said.

I’m a preschool teacher, I teach a class of 2 1/2 - 3 1/2 year olds.

This is normal. They need strategies to help
him.