DS has come home from nursery with scratch marks on his face

[BelinaTheChicken]

Apparently he is having a leetle bit of difficulty getting to grips with sharing, and got scratched by a little girl he was wrestling taking a toy from, and although part of me is a bit PFB and about it, I know what he's like. Most of the time he is lovely, and shares his toys/food/whatever really well with DS2, me and DH, he is not good with his friends.

Any ideas? He is 2.10, so I know it is a normal stage of development, but I woudl like to encourage him to share and hopefully avoid further face scratching incidents

Try encoperating sharing into play get him to pretend some of his soft toys are children from nursery and talk through in play feelings ect or alternatively try to encourage more play dates with friends and try to encourage shareing games and praise behaviour that way :-)

How often does he go and how long has he been there for?

How often does he see other kids to play with outside nursery?

Chirpy that's a good idea about role-play, he's very attached to his cuddly toys, will try that this morning.

Awkward he has play dates 2-3 mornings a week, playgroup on the morning he doesn have nursery and I take home to various parks/soft plays. He only started in January, so I guess he's still settling in. He's been going to play groups and on play dates etc since he was tiny though.

Not drip feeding, but I just remembered the worst thing, his key worker mentioned that sometimes when he doesn't get his way he puts his hands round the othe child's neck. I have no idea where he has seen this, but he did it once to me ages ago (in an exploratory kind of way) and we had a long chat how Ot wasn't a nice thing, and was very scary for me etc, and I've never seen it since. Is this normal behaviour? Don't really know how to tackle it since he's only done it outside of nursery that once.