Hello, I have a soon to be 4 Yr old who has just moved from a nursery in to a combined class of nursery and reception/Yr 1 age children in a new school. The school appears brilliant and he was super happy his first couple of weeks. However the feedback is that he has been struggling with the taking turns and sharing with the other children. Now after a year of being isolated on and off due to coronavirus and being an only child with mainly adult company, I would say this is fairly normal to struggle with adapting to a large group of kids who are suddenly challenging him in ways he is not used to. He is not a 'spoilt' kid, he has excellent manors for his age and he understands etiquette, what he's struggling with is that other kids he is coming up against, are not the same way. He will verbalise, where as they will just snatch. He really struggles with this because it is alien to him. Sadly the other day there was an incident in which he felt a child had snatched, got very upset and apparently when the teacher disagreed with him and tried to take him by the hand he had an emotional melt down and kicked out at her. I was very upset to hear this because it is hugely out of character. He never has gone through a stage of hitting or kicking etc, he never does this behaviour at home. He clearly felt very misunderstood and frustrated. I feel so upset that he is finding it so hard and I'm just looking for reassurance that this is actually normal for a 'good kid', it does improve and he won't get long term affected by the challenges he is facing. I'm sorry if it all sounds pathetic and I feel that him facing these things is the right thing for him, however I have not been in this situ before and would really appreciate knowing if other parents have had similar issues with their kids that have resolved fully. One thing the head teacher keeps saying is that my son is far, far advanced in his language and communication and this is proving an extra hurdle for him in some ways because the other kids his age are on a different wave length. Emotionally he is at the same level though so it is causing him difficulties. I'm really cut up about the change in behaviour and worried it will become a problem and make him an unhappy little boy
he's such a happy, confident and kind child normally, so we'll behaved and literally never acts out like this.