Dear Friends and Family,
P had a moment on Friday when she didn't want to go into her new classroom. She said she didn't like school and she wanted a new school. That's so unlike her I decided to speak to the center director.
We spent some time troubleshooting and then the teachers tried some new things at group time on Friday and Monday and P seems to be doing better. We'll see how drop-off goes today.
Our current hypotheses is that some of the older girls with younger siblings are smothering P. She's so much smaller than the kids in her room. And, there's a piece of P that just makes her look like an over-sized American Girl doll if you're not careful.
So, they were hugging her and petting her and rocking her and sitting her on their laps and reading to her and helping her point and unlike pushing or biting or kicking or hitting, it wasn't anything P had good words for.
Keep in mind, girlfriend is figuring out reading and counting to 100. She doesn't have much interest in sitting on someone's lap and having a counting book (1-10) read to her. So, we taught her the words for how to deal with it.
First incident: I'm a big girl. I am not a baby.
Second incident: Stop. I don't like that.
Third incident: (to the teacher): I need help.
In a perfect world, she'll be excited about school again and drop-off will not be a high-stakes pressure-filled event.
Cheers!
mouse
P had a moment on Friday when she didn't want to go into her new classroom. She said she didn't like school and she wanted a new school. That's so unlike her I decided to speak to the center director.
We spent some time troubleshooting and then the teachers tried some new things at group time on Friday and Monday and P seems to be doing better. We'll see how drop-off goes today.
Our current hypotheses is that some of the older girls with younger siblings are smothering P. She's so much smaller than the kids in her room. And, there's a piece of P that just makes her look like an over-sized American Girl doll if you're not careful.
So, they were hugging her and petting her and rocking her and sitting her on their laps and reading to her and helping her point and unlike pushing or biting or kicking or hitting, it wasn't anything P had good words for.
Keep in mind, girlfriend is figuring out reading and counting to 100. She doesn't have much interest in sitting on someone's lap and having a counting book (1-10) read to her. So, we taught her the words for how to deal with it.
First incident: I'm a big girl. I am not a baby.
Second incident: Stop. I don't like that.
Third incident: (to the teacher): I need help.
In a perfect world, she'll be excited about school again and drop-off will not be a high-stakes pressure-filled event.
Cheers!
mouse
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