My 4yr old mindee is leaving me at the end of Aug as he is going to school. His sister is staying with me though. He will be at the before and after school club all year, he won't even be coming back to me during the hols.
When he first started he was so quiet and shy. Such a timid little thing who would just hide behind my legs. I have worked really hard over the past two years and he has really come in to his own. Such a clever and gentle young chap. However, just lately he has had the devil in him! He has been so naughty.
Just this evening he got all stuff in his drink, and didn't want it, so tipped it all in his sister drink, so she couldn't drink it. Then he jumped all over my sofa, despite knowing the rules, and did not listen when I told him to stop. At tea time he threw bits of his dinner in his sisters drink. He chased my son about pretending to do fighting despite my son crying telling him to stop.
Mindee had three time outs today and I really did need to raise my voice at him. When I am not looking (or when he thinks I am not looking) he will raise his hand and threaten to smack. Tonight when Mum collect he was pretending to fight me and pretending to kick me.
I have never felt such a sense of relief when I closed the door behind him, and I feel awful for feeling like this.
I know he is not good with change and he is about to go through a massive change, he is starting school AND going to a new place as well and will not be with his sister anymore.
I have a week off next week so he is really out of sorts at the moment.
Do you think his terrible behaviour (there is loads more, but have not got enough time to go through it all lol) is due to the fact of all these changes and what can I do to help him?
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