terrydoo73
12-02-2010, 12:41 PM
I have a little 2 1/2 year old who is leaving me today. I have been having a lot of problems with him not wanting to play with toys at my house - puts them away all the time and spends lot of the time rolling about on the couch and floor. I have got to the point where both my hubby and his mother question if this is in fact what he does do so am glad he is going.
Anyway today thought I would take some pictures of his play just more or less to convince myself that this is in fact what he does do a lot of the time! Pictures do not lie and I certainly have all the evidence - about 6 with him in different places just lying on the floor, rolling about. He has also had a bit of bother integrating and playing with the others I mind - his cousins a year younger. Again the pictures don't lie - I managed to catch him quite a few times today - pulling a toy off one of the twins, pushing another one onto the floor and a third one where he was scaring one of the twins with a toy - you should see the picture on the twins face!! There are quite a few of him playing on his own well sort of playing!!
Does anyone else have problems with this age group not wanting to play and rolling about a lot? I did think it was sleep was the problem - yesterday it definately was because he nearly feel asleep at the kitchen table eating his lunch! Mum of course did not tell me until pick up time that he had been up and down 5 times during the night!! I of course have strict instructions not to let him sleep unless it is a case of him going over himself because he will not sleep at night then (or that is mums reasoning anyway). Is it alright to let children of this age just get on with it whether that be rolling about on the floor, couch etc? I feel I am not and have not done enough to encourage him to join in play and of course guilty at mum having to take him elsewhere.
Problem is mum has hinted that he might be back again!! She has signed him up for 3 days private nursery hoping he will settle and that might mean he goes the other 2 days too - if not he might come back to me. She has signed him up to the end of June, then he will be at home for 2 months with them for hols but come September he is due to get his statutory 2 1/2 hours a day nursery placement - mum is thinking of what happens after this time each day. I really would prefer him to be gone once and for all as mum has not worked with me in resolving the problems I have had and my own self esteem has suffered quite a knockback as a result.
Anyway today thought I would take some pictures of his play just more or less to convince myself that this is in fact what he does do a lot of the time! Pictures do not lie and I certainly have all the evidence - about 6 with him in different places just lying on the floor, rolling about. He has also had a bit of bother integrating and playing with the others I mind - his cousins a year younger. Again the pictures don't lie - I managed to catch him quite a few times today - pulling a toy off one of the twins, pushing another one onto the floor and a third one where he was scaring one of the twins with a toy - you should see the picture on the twins face!! There are quite a few of him playing on his own well sort of playing!!
Does anyone else have problems with this age group not wanting to play and rolling about a lot? I did think it was sleep was the problem - yesterday it definately was because he nearly feel asleep at the kitchen table eating his lunch! Mum of course did not tell me until pick up time that he had been up and down 5 times during the night!! I of course have strict instructions not to let him sleep unless it is a case of him going over himself because he will not sleep at night then (or that is mums reasoning anyway). Is it alright to let children of this age just get on with it whether that be rolling about on the floor, couch etc? I feel I am not and have not done enough to encourage him to join in play and of course guilty at mum having to take him elsewhere.
Problem is mum has hinted that he might be back again!! She has signed him up for 3 days private nursery hoping he will settle and that might mean he goes the other 2 days too - if not he might come back to me. She has signed him up to the end of June, then he will be at home for 2 months with them for hols but come September he is due to get his statutory 2 1/2 hours a day nursery placement - mum is thinking of what happens after this time each day. I really would prefer him to be gone once and for all as mum has not worked with me in resolving the problems I have had and my own self esteem has suffered quite a knockback as a result.