I have never had to terminate since moving from centre to homecare but one of the things we use to do in centre care when staff were feeling they were at their 'end of the rope' with supporting a child and not getting enough help from HOME was to draw up a 'behaviour management contract' basically your child is being put on 'probation' and if the following behaviours are not remedied by X date we are going to have to terminate service. We would give action plan for what we were doing in PROGRAM and what we needed for HOME in hopes to get the issue resolved ... this way it was not a 'shock' when a client finally got a 'sorry but effective X date we will no longer be able to provide care' and honestly in my 17 years of centre care we only had to actually terminated TWO children because the minute the parents realized the behavior was going to affect THEM in having no childcare they got on board at home with instilling the 'skills' the child needed to thrive in the group setting!

A child heading to school in 7 months should have way more resiliency and conflict resolution skills than to be melting down daily ~ something is not right either in her sleep routines and she is overtired OR she has been allowed to use manipulative crying to get special treatment and has figured it works so keeps doing it ... either way it needs addressing with better management of her emotions and to self soothe before school otherwise she is going to have a tough time in a classroom of 25 children!