ledodgyfireworksingedmyeyebrow ·
03/11/2006 14:48
Sice Wednesday dd (3) has been saying she doesn't want to go to pre-school. I just assumed it was because she was off for a week because of half term and she was getting used to it again. However she has been coming home saying she doesn't like the teacher and I thought well that can't be helped. I have a friend who's dd is best friends with mine and was talking to her today and she said her dd has been exactly the same and also started acting things out in her bedroom saying things like "Naughty boys! Sit down, you are all silly boys!" when her mum asked her who said this she said no one so my friend listened outside her room and her dd was then saying to her dolls "i'm Miss... and you are all naughty" so my friend went in and asked her if that's what the teacher says and she said it was and that she tells the naughty boys off because they are playing with toys when they should be listening to her. Now i'm all for discipline but surely labelling children as 'naughty' rather than labelling their behaviour is wrong. Also once when I was picking up my dd the teacher told me she had been crying because she had a cough, I thought this was strange because she didn't have a cough and when I asked my dd she showed me that she'd cut her finger on the straw she has with her milk. I mentioned this to the teacher the next day so she knew that dd didn't have a cough and that she had cut her finger and that's why she'd been crying , she got all defensive saying "oh no it was before that" which implies she did know she cut her finger and didn't tell me. She was the same when another girls mum was questioning her about a rash her dd had and was wondering if it was the soap in school that has caused it and immediatley started to be really defensive. At the beginning of term you have to fill out a form explaining what your child can and can't do such as putting their shoes on , washing hands etc. I stated that dd can put her shoes on but always asked is this the right foot as she often gets them on the wrong way round, several times when they've done PE she has come out with her shoes on the wrong feet, I understand there are quite a few children but there is a classroom assistant as well and what's the point of filling out that form in the first place if they aren't going to check things like this. It just isn't sitting very well with me at the moment we have meet the teacher next week should I raise my concerns or am I overreacting?