Ow!

[lesliepear]

Alan came home with a bruise on his forehead tonight. Mark hadn't even noticed it.

The "incident report" read that Alan took food from another child, so the other child hit him with a toy car. Nice.
This isn't the first time Alan's taken something per an incident report. But the other child shouldn't hit him either (it's not the same child that bit him back in the fall as far as I know).
Am I doing something wrong that he's like that? Or is he just 2?

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[silent-ic-river.livejournal.com]

He's just two.
This week TJ bit me once, Chris once and Zoe once so hard it broke the skin and is still visable three days later.
He's also running out the front door about twice or thrice a day.
I just keep saying, 'this shall pass, this shall pass'.

[silent-ic-river.livejournal.com]

I'm a pre-school teacher, I understand about constructing the environment to his developmental needs. TJ is well aware of the consequences of his behavior. It's just going to take a while for him to understand what the limits are. My daughter got the concept in a flash, that's just her nature. I understand that TJ is going to keep testing the limits and boundaries for a while, he's an awful lot like his dad (good heavens, his dad is 40 next month and he's still testing limits.

When I keep saying this shall pass, it's to remind myself not to allow either my emotions to get involved (after all, he's doing it to see what I'll do, not to piss me off) and to remind myself that once he knows the ground rules he'll move on to challenging me in some new and interesting way I hadn't yet thought of, that will make the current challenge look like a cake walk.