This is actually a message about my niece - my sister does not have mumsnet. I have saw many articles about clingy child with caregivers but this is not the issue here.
So my niece is 2 (3 in March) and has always been a little obsessive with people - particularly children including my dd. At soft plays or parties etc she tends to pick someone she likes the most and literally hold on to them, stare at them, sometimes likes to stroke their hair to the point where the other child inevitably snaps and she gets upset. My sister has talked about boundaries and not doing that but the concept seems a bit too much for her to grasp at her age.
She is now in nursery for half days and at first was very excited and loved it. The past week she has been crying about not going into nursery as the other children are mean and call her stupid and don't want to play. She actually this weel has started calling everyone stupid so its definitley sometjing she's picked up there. Having spoken to the nursery employees they have no advice only to acknowledge that it may be her clingy behaviour and they often have to ask her to step away from which ever child she has fixated on that day!
Any words of advice for my sister? We are struggling to get the message through to the little one.
TIA