Would you term this child?

[Other Mummy]

* UPDATE *

It's been an interesting read about what others would do in this situation. I have been on the fence waaay to long with this dcb. The final straw was this Friday.

DCB was giving his father a very difficult time at drop off (they were late as well). Instead of just leaving, dcd kept giving in to dcb's whiny crying. Twice he took him outside to calm down. The third time he read my text that DCB was late and please feed breakfast at home prior to coming to daycare. So he took him home to eat and calm down .

I gave him the park we will be at to meet us there when dcb was finished eating his breakfast. They came at 10:15. DCB was fine the whole day. Until the very end. I was saying goodbye to one of my graduating dcg's and her mom. We are at the top of the stairs and dcb is holding the other boy by the collar and not allowing him to go up the stairs. This is the same dcb he was holding back whom he has bitten to many times. When I gave my stern "DCB, let DCB2 go right now!" He lunged and tried to bite his neck/back?. Right in front of my eyes and the other dcm as well.

3 min. later his mom came. I explained what happened and she seemed waaay more annoyed at DCB2 (the bitee). Then she sends me some garbled text about how he is not getting a treat tonite and that she also feels that he is not welcome at my daycare"...Ya think?

The icing....I checked out her facebook page to see if she had posted anything about this latest incident at daycare (I'm not a facebook friend of hers, I just took a chance) She had written a post about dcb's "frenemy". She told her friends that he only bites once every 2 or 3 weeks More like 2 x a week. Easily. And she referred to me as the "sitter". That was it for me.

To me it is very clear that this is dcb's way of "controlling" a situation. He could get so mad, that he wants to bite. What happens when I'm not in the same room and he chooses to demonstrate his control over another child. What if it's a bad bite. And I could have prevented it. I shudder. I'd be a bad provider for not protecting the others. Too much stress. He's got to go.

Termination letter and conversation on Tuesday at drop off.