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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you're dealing with physically aggressive kids, then I don't understand why you would wait a few weeks to talk to the school.  If it's a case of some kids not being nice, then I think you might be overreacting.

Three- and four-year-olds are just figuring out friendship, so you get a lot of kids saying "You're not my friend" when what they mean is "I don't want to play with you right now" or "I'm mad that you won't do what I want."  That's totally normal, and not the same as "mean kid" behavior.

It really matters what you mean by "the treatment."  Three- and four-year-olds are rarely bullies or mean kids.  They are often immature, impulsive, and tactless.  [/quote]

Seriously, this!

I get tired of people ascribing all kinds of bad behaviors to children who are just trying to figure out how to relate to their peers[/quote]

It may be developmentally normal for kids to be unkind without realizing it/intention, but it also developmentally normal for adults to step in and correct the behavior when it happens.  Refusing to parent kids isn’t helping them - they are never learning the difference between socially acceptable behavior and mean behavior/bad manners.  Sure, eventually you need to let them work things out on their own, with little to no guidance (depending on the situation), but that is only *after* they’ve been appropriately guided/patented and given the necessary tools/knowledge to make those decision.  “Lord of the Flies” - that’s what happens when kids are left to their own devices without proper parental intervention!  [/quote]

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