OK....bit of background.
DS is 3 - his birthday is September 7th so he is just about the oldest in his year group.
He attends playgroup 4 mornings a week and has done since October last year.
He is a big boy for his age (wears age 4-5 clothes)
He is pretty clumsy, very full of life, has NO FEAR of danger (jumped down the full flight of stairs a couple of weeks ago claiming to be trying to fly to his friends house), when he hurts himself he very rarely cries, I often joke that he has no pain threshold etc etc)
Anyway, went to collect him this afternoon from playgroup and the teacher asked to have a word. Apparently 4 families have complained about him. The children are frightened of him it seems.
She stressed to me that he isnt badly behaved and is quite sure that he is never malicious towards the children but because he is so boisterous, big and fearless he is hurting and scaring the kids.
He also seems to be acting out the power rangers at playgropu (made guns from stickle bricks yesterday and scared some girls by pretending to shoot them).
She has asked that I try and encourage him to calm down and be gentle and Im a bit at a loss as to what to do.
I have already stopped him watching power rangers although he does have soem of the toys and a couple of pirate swords etc - shall I remove these?
I understand how the situation has come about but cant help but feel a bit protective towards him - hate to think of him being labelled as a little shit because he really is a lovely boy. Very loving.
I am a childminder and he is really gentle and kind with the 18 month old that I look after.
He is SO much bigger than most of the other kids at playgroup, some of them are relaly tiny and only just 2.5 - she said that sometimes just by him trying to cuddle them or play with them he is knocking them flying
Any ideas? I have just tried to talk to him but it is just goign completely over his head!