Help! I'm worried my dd is going to be excluded from pre school.

[YUMMUM01]

Has this happened to anyone else?

My dd is 3.8 and started hitting for the first time at pre school yesterday. She's always hit at home, which i'm very strict with, but nothing seems to work.

I took comfort in the fact that she never did it at pre school but now that she has it's a nightmare.

Can anyone help? Would it be normal for a pre school to have to let a child go for bad behaviour?

I really am so upset.

Pre-school teachers (state school?) will have seen this before and will have techniques to deal with it. So work with the teachers and mirror their methods at home. It's very rare that they exclude children. That's an absolute last resort.

i am almost certain she won't be excluded. it's very normal for children to go through phases of hitting/biting/pushing etc

nursery will have seen it all before and will know how to deal with it

Well she definitely has triggers, tiredness, needing the toilet but wont go because she's too involved with something else, hunger etc.

Although it is a good pre school and I like the set up, they have tended to make me feel
like she is the only child who isn't doing
as she's told or just in general had a bad
day. So, when they told me she had been hitting and throwing megga tantrums I just thought, 'well that's it then'. I know it sounds dramatic but you just get a feel for these sort of things.

Another thing is, with it being the holidays, the set up is different and a lot of the children she would have played with aren't there.