Hi as some of you know I've taken on a 4 year old boy in the afternoons and will soon have two of them. SO far mindee has been getting on very well with ds who is not yet 17 months. Mindee wants to hold ds's hand, kick ball to him, make him laugh etc.
But there have been a couple of occasions when they have been on their own (for a matter of seconds of course), and ds has started crying like he's been hurt. It happened today again and I managed to get out of mindee that he had pushed ds's hand out of the way as ds was messing up his game. There were red marks on his wrist and later I noticed a scratch on his face.
Overall I'm quite happy with this boy and his behaviour - apart from this. I did say to him today that if it happens again I would tell his father. But should I have told him anyway? Should I have written it in the incident book? By the time ds went to bed the marks were gone and he was quite happy so I know it wasn't too vicious.
I will obviously try not to leave them alone together in the future.
Am I overreacting? It was the first time ds has been properly 'hurt' by another child and I'm quite upset about it - guess I'd better get used to it as he grows up!
Any advice welcome.