Hi
Im worried.
My son is 3.5 years old and started nursery in September.
He has always been a happy, loving and funny boy. Generous with kisses and cuddles especially for me and OH.
Ive always known he was going to be the dominant one in his friend groups but it became apparent when he was about 18 months old that he didnt like sharing, normal i know.
Anyway, the school pulled me in a few weeks ago to ask for my permission if they could refer him to speech and language as they had concerns, they were
- parrots the teachers
- does not want/understand to share toys, wont wait his turn or more so just cant understand too
- finds it difficult to initiate interation sometimes with other children, will go up and push to initiate
- will walk past children (not all the time) and hit a child as walking past
- shows alot of empathy when he sees a child crying after he has hit them
He does have friends, and they seem to love him.
His teachers believe sometimes he doesnt understand what he is doing.
I had a realisation over the weekend that perhaps ive had my bleekers on.
Ive noticed if he wants me to come and play whilst im cooking tea, and i tell him i cant, im busy etc... he wont drop it... he will continually ask over and over again.
Today, he bit another child. We have had about 2-3 weeks of no instances and when i asked if he had, he smirks as if im going to find it funny.. i dont get it.
He also lines all his cars up in a line. He doesnt play with much else. He has bought him a pretend airport, kitchen and he rarely plays with them. Just cars. He sometimes lines them up, and moves them from one side of the tv stand, to the other. If he is in the middle of it, he wont stop until he has done the last one.
He also is petrified of fireworks and talks about them for months and months after bonfire night.
Should i be concerned? Or am i way off the mark?
He is a very social boy, loves adults, babies and kids. Very loving too.
The only milestones he was slow on was crawling, pulling himself up and walking.
Thanks for reading/advising