Mine recently has a new sibling (9 weeks old) and he has gone very 'hyperactive'...he gets very excited especially in the company of others. He doesn't hit etc just general running around excitement. He is due to start school in September, he will be 4 in July, and I am just starting to wonder how he will settle down enough to listen. I take him to a couple of groups with other 3 year olds and he is normally the one distracting the other children...
He goes to pre-school two days a week and we have had no bad reports from there and he enjoys going. He has one special friend who he always plays with, his special friend is a girl funnily enough so maybe he's not as boisterous as I am imagining! He seems quite bright, is learning the phonics song, letter sounds, can recognise numbers up to 10, speech is reasonably good for his age. He will sit down with me and read stories at bedtime or even in the day and will concentrate enough to do a puzzle when we are at home on our own. When home alone he will play very well with his Lego and other little figures and makes up imaginative stories with them.
He sometime struggles to keep his cool and has not exactly tantrums but emotional outbursts, for example when asked to leave somewhere fun or if things haven't quite gone his way.
I just keep worrying that he is too excitable /over active / boisterous and wondering how he will get on at school. Am I worrying for nothing? I am a worrier by nature!
If anyone would mind sharing their experiences of 3.5 year old boys particularly. I know ours has a new sibling so this is probably contributing but he has always been this way, it just seems to have gotten worse recently.