Holy freakin' energy batman!
I seriously think this dcb(2.5) is on speed or something. He is like a whirl wind that leaves disaster everywhere he goes. Today is his 5th day here and he is the same EVERY DAY. He bounces from 1 thing to the next and trashes my daycare within minutes. Today I finally decided that I'm NOT going to allow him to trash my d/c space so I locked him out of the play area and only allowed him the cars and the LP garage thing to play with or the ride on toys...or he could sit at the table and colour with the others if he wanted. He was only allowed in the play area when I was in there and we were all sitting for circle time. This seemed to calm him down a bit since he couldn't really bounce around so I'm gonna continue doing it for now but I feel mean since the other kids can go where ever they want but wow...this kid is hyper! If I didn't do this today, he wouldn't of played with anything longer than 30 seconds and just ran around pulling everything out. I have him sitting waaaaay at the end of the table away from everyone so he doesn't disrupt them while we eat since he is constantly fidgeting and moving the table, bugging the others, etc. He exhausts me and I'm seriously thinking of giving him the boot if I don't see improvements by the end of the month. The only ...and I mean only...saving grace for this kid is that he will stay laying down and be quiet until I go get him from quiet time. He didn't the first day or 2 and I had to talk to the parents about it. He would get off his mat and bang on the door or walls. He comes at 10:30 a.m. so he's here for about 2 hours before nap time and he leaves at about 4:45 so active for another hour and half or so after quiet time.
When I mention to the dad about his energy level, he just says..."ya, there's no shortage of energy with him". NO SH!T! I'm not sure exactly what I would tell the parents if I termed him though...and I don't know if I should mention anything about it before his trial period is up or not. Crap...why couldn't he have been normal. For the interview he was pretty busy but most kids are when they come here because everything is new and exciting and they have their parents here with them.
I have a feeling his parents just let him go at home. They do everything for him. He won't take anything off himself...I make him do this because he is more than capable of undressing himself, he just wants me to do it for him. When he takes off his mits he just flings his hands around until they fly off leaving them where ever they drop. He doesn't seem to know boundaries at all. Ugh...should I talk to the parents and tell them that I'm having trouble dealing with his energy level and that because his energy level is so high, it's causing chaos and stress on the others? Seriously...this kid will step on toys like they're not even there, push past where he needs to go, etc. I have a lot of little ones here and I can't have him bowling kids over because he is in such a hurry to get from place to place. He screams when another kid even thinks about touching something he was playing with. I don't know, my ds was pretty active but this kid is 1000 X worse than he EVER was.
If someone falls, he laughs, he went over to a table where my dd and dck(4) were playing and swiped everything onto the ground (we were outside) and I had to physicqlly make him go and pick it up and return it to the table. He is only 2.5 BUT I don't have the energy to deal with this kid and his behavours. I have a lot of little kids (under 2) and because of his lack of boundaries and energy he could seriously harm them. He ran over dcg(2) when he was in the play car and laughed when she started crying. :huh: Normally new kids are a bit stand-offish, quiet and so not like this kid...when he gets comfortable here I can't imagine. He could get better but he could get worse and effect everyone in care. I think when he comes back on Tuesday I'm going to talk to mom about some things. Ask her what he's like at home, how he plays, if he's had a lot of contact with other kids, etc. and tell her my concerns. THEN...when dad picks up, I'm going to ask him the same thing to see how similar the stories are. If I loose them over it...no big deal because I'll probably be getting rid of them anyway.
