Name changed for this
Have had mindee 5 years from baby till now end of reception. She has been with me 5 days a week 8-5.
For about the last two years her concentration has not been good, and seems to be getting worse.
She also just doesn't listen, no that is not true she hears what you say, but does not act on it at all, even if she wants to, she will do the opposite.
If I ask her to put her shoes away she will just throw them in the hall, (all children have their own drawers to put their belongings in)
I ask her to please sit still at the table and not to put her drink on the edge EVERYDAY! every day she does and it ends up on the floor.
She has tantrums at the drop of the hat, if she doesn't get her own way, and ends up sobbing, (although when we have had a big meltdown, and I let her cry it out, she then seems to settle for the rest of the week, and sympathy will keep the tantrum going)
She can turn the tantrum off just as quick as she can on.
If the other children ask her to do/not do something she will do the opposite, till the point they get fed up.
Obviously this is not good for any of them especially not the 5 years old as she feels that she is left out.
I really don't know where to go with her, today I asked her to do something as we were getting out of the car, she just ignored me, and carried on doing exactly what she wanted, when I asked her why she didn't do as I asked, she just shrugs, if I push for a answer she just says don't know.
Now this is a bright intelligent child, who has articulate and has talked since she was 14 months in very clear sentences.
I get so frustrated with her at times, as it feels that I am always having to remind her about everything, and its always her name I seem to be saying, which must get her fed up.
Any ideas?