samgeordie
09-09-2008, 07:25 AM
ive only been minding a month and have 2 part-timers - a before/afterschooler who is nearly 5 and a 16mth who is 2 afternoons with hours increasing soon.
I have my own daughter who is nearly 4 and attends nursery for a couple of hours in the morning. Generally she has been well behaved with me starting minding and plays fine with the mindees, however the past few days she has started playing up big time with the after schooler, there is a lot of competition between them, she hates it if mindee holds my hand, won't take her turn and yesterday afternoon it was really bad. I got her to take time out while the mindee was here but she ended up in her bed early and won't be getting any tv or treats today.
Do you think she is not liking me giving the mindee my attention, I guess there is some jealousy, I try and be fair to both of them and the mindee can play up as well and hates it when my child copies her. I guess its going to take time for everyone to adjust to the new stetting but please tell me it will get better. Ive been explaining everything to her and she was fine about everything until we were back in the playground yesterday and she had a tantrum cos she wasn't in the middle of us.
How do you deal with this? I went to bed all wound up thinking am I doing the right thing.
Thanks
I have my own daughter who is nearly 4 and attends nursery for a couple of hours in the morning. Generally she has been well behaved with me starting minding and plays fine with the mindees, however the past few days she has started playing up big time with the after schooler, there is a lot of competition between them, she hates it if mindee holds my hand, won't take her turn and yesterday afternoon it was really bad. I got her to take time out while the mindee was here but she ended up in her bed early and won't be getting any tv or treats today.
Do you think she is not liking me giving the mindee my attention, I guess there is some jealousy, I try and be fair to both of them and the mindee can play up as well and hates it when my child copies her. I guess its going to take time for everyone to adjust to the new stetting but please tell me it will get better. Ive been explaining everything to her and she was fine about everything until we were back in the playground yesterday and she had a tantrum cos she wasn't in the middle of us.
How do you deal with this? I went to bed all wound up thinking am I doing the right thing.
Thanks