Lear
10-10-2013, 08:32 AM
I'm hoping that perhaps someone can give me some advice on my 6yo son. He's extremely jealous of my mindees - particularly the ones I look after who are in the same school and year as him.
There was an incident this morning whereby he was trying to talk to me in the playground but was interrupted twice, once by a parent who was passing her little boy to my care and the other by his brother. This drove him crazy and he began to say that I never listen and therefore can't care for him.
He tries to be very controlling of me and will tell me that a little girl I look after who is one of the children in the same year (but not class) can't have that particular toy to play with or can't have a treat that night as she might have done something to upset him.
Sometimes if he misbehaves depending on what he has done, I send him to his room or have a chat to talk about why I'm not happy but other children are always within earshot. I suppose this makes him annoyed as he's getting into trouble in front of others. I give him lots of positive attention and make a big deal of having a cuddle with him when he returns from school and tell him I've missed him.
Sorry this is so long I'm just at my wits end with him. At the moment I'm doing all I can not to open the floodgates. Just to add I work Mon-Fri and I have chosen not to work on a Friday.......moreso for my children (I have three children) so they can have me all to themselves and not have to share me.
There was an incident this morning whereby he was trying to talk to me in the playground but was interrupted twice, once by a parent who was passing her little boy to my care and the other by his brother. This drove him crazy and he began to say that I never listen and therefore can't care for him.
He tries to be very controlling of me and will tell me that a little girl I look after who is one of the children in the same year (but not class) can't have that particular toy to play with or can't have a treat that night as she might have done something to upset him.
Sometimes if he misbehaves depending on what he has done, I send him to his room or have a chat to talk about why I'm not happy but other children are always within earshot. I suppose this makes him annoyed as he's getting into trouble in front of others. I give him lots of positive attention and make a big deal of having a cuddle with him when he returns from school and tell him I've missed him.
Sorry this is so long I'm just at my wits end with him. At the moment I'm doing all I can not to open the floodgates. Just to add I work Mon-Fri and I have chosen not to work on a Friday.......moreso for my children (I have three children) so they can have me all to themselves and not have to share me.