My dd is 22 mo, has been going to nursery since she was 16 months. She goes 2.5 days per week, and has always seemed very settled there, and even to like it, e.g, she's never running over to the gate for her mum whenever someone comes in etc. Anyhow, her key worker approached me this morning questioning her behaviour, asking if it was getting worse at home, because it was in nursery.
She is a very active toddler, and very into everything! The nursery keep the kids things in drawers on the other side of the gate leading into her room, and apparently she was been opening everybody's drawers and hauling out their stuff. She does this at home, mind you, just likes to see whats in every drawer or cupboard she meets! More seriously she sometimes destroys other kids art works, although again, she just does seem to have a bit of a thing for ripping paper. Her key worker said she had been very cross with dd all day yesterday, but decided to sit down and give her some one to one attention when it got to about 4pm, after this she was fine.
I'm not 100% sure what to think of all this. I know dd is pretty boisterous, but to me she's just like a lot of other kids her age, trying to assert some independance, and looking for attention. At home if she's doing something sh shouldn't, or tantrumming, distracting her works really quickly, since she's not bad tempered by nature. She did have a bit of a difficult phase after Xmas, but mostly because she'd stopped sleeping at all! She's got over that now, and tbh, and trying not to look at her with pfb eyes, although she is strong willed, she's pretty easy to deal with. SO should I be trying to discipline her a bit more? For example, when she rips paper etc? Personally though, I think its well nigh impossible to disciple a child this age, since they don't really get it! I don't know, this whole thing has caught me very off guard!