Does your child play well with others? Colton hasn’t been around many kids his age, except his second cousin, and he maybe sees her once a month. Other than that, he has no experience playing with kids, and he is 16 months. Since he will be starting daycare in Feb. I am worried how he will do. There are about 10 kids in one room and I’m not sure how he will react because he’s never seen that many kids at once! Do any of your young children have trouble playing nice with others? I am afraid he will hurt one of the other kids! Any tips??
I found Mommy & Me's in the area when my son was around that age. It helped me- and him- a TON! Good Luck!
If its a good day care I wouldn’t be too concerned. They are trained to watch for that and work with the kids that getting angry or hitting isn’t ok. All children go through that stage of mine,no etc. When I pick up my granddaughter from day care I see that the babies seem to all be happy and playing well together.
Luckily.. my youngest two are twins.. Built in play buddy!!
But, there are times when they do not get along.
When they fight, or get cranky with each other.. I seperate them.. I then explain that they have to be nice and share, then I show them what sharing is!!
It takes time.. but, they are learning.. They dont “know” they have to get along.. We just have to coach them, hold their hands along the way….eventually they will get it.
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Good luck.
well, my 9 mt old really wallops the cat, but I am thinking that is normal for a 9 mt old!!!
I think it has a lot to do with your child’s personality. Neither of my kids were around others their age until pre-school. My son, never adjusted well with others, more anti-social than anything because of his shy nature. He grew out of it by first grade. Now our daughter, who is just 18 months LOVES other kids. She will walk up to any child no matter where we are and just hug them. She has a very social personality even though she’s only been around other babies a handful of times.
background-my son was in daycare since 3 months. i stopped at about 15 months. Plus, i am the oldest of 4 children and was in charge of my siblings on more than one occasion. after my son turned two he started getting very angry if you touch his toys or got to near him (other kids anyway). i started teaching him time out because i was going to put him in part-time daycare. when i saw that he was not sharing with me or with kids in bookstore play tables we went to a corner of the house or store for time out. even though he is not verbal he knew that he did something wrong everytime that he yelled or hit a child. we only did 5 minute time outs and went back to the situation.
Time is when you have your baby sit by himself (and he/she will cry) and you say no calmly and you stand alittle away from them. very little. with out saying anything. then you say be a good boy/girl and share please. then go back and say share please and thank you and then you shower praise when you ask them to give a toy back or when they hug the other boy/girl.
it has worked for me over and over. the only hard part is when they start crying because you removed them from the area. the might start screaming but like nanny 911 says, if you are consistant, calm, confident and always polite to your child it will work.