My first daycare child was a lot like this...I lasted nine months and absolutely could not take it anymore. She was almost 2 when I terminated. She would kick, hit, push the other kids constantly, she would purposely shriek in another little girl's face because she knew it would make her cry...many times ever day, she would scream and cry about everything and anything and she had fears about pretty much anything...she would not get off my front porch to play and would stand there screaming unless I held her, if I took her to the library she wouldn't get out of the stroller at storytime because something startled her one time when we were there, at playgroup she would often sit and scream through circle time...I just couldn't deal with it while taking care of all the other kids. Plus, we would draw a crown everywhere we went and people would be wondering what was the matter with her...I started to feel that I was getting a bad reputation because I had such an unahappy child in my daycare. Her parents were great through most of it all and that is way I hung in there...but near the end they start to change as well. They started to say things like "Well she's really good at home so I don't know why she's like this for you" or "Do any of the other kids do this?"...it started to feel like they were blaming me. I think they were tired of me telling them about her behaviour issues. If you have tried everything and it isn't working, I would terminate for your own sanity. My daycare was so much happier after this child was gone!

































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