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Child Behavior (Expert Forum)
31/2 year old aggressive behavior
Answered by
Kevin Kennedy, Ph.D. - Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, Family Therapy, Crisis Intervention
Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
This forum is for questions and support regarding child behavior issues such: Child Discipline (behavior management), Normal Child Development, Parent-Child Communications, Social Development
31/2 year old aggressive behavior
by twinsmomplus1, Mar 12, 2008 02:14PM
I have 3 year old twins they will be 4 in May. I put them in the local headstart program and everything has been so great up until the last week. Monday the teacher woke Bethany up from her nap and told her to put her shoes on which is a normal routine... Bethany throws her shoe accross the room and hits another little girl inthe face, the teacher got the shoe brought it back to Bethany and continued pleading with her to put her shoe on. She then started kicking and pulling her teachers hair.... I gave her a spankin and took tv away... Tuesday she was so good, and then today the teacher had to call me back to the school because when it was time to lay down for nap Bethany was at it again. She kicked her teacher... I mean kicked her hard enough to leave a knot... knocked over the garbage and threw herself onto another childs cot.I have the twins and an 8 month old baby... I don't know what to do... Please help!!!
Doctor's Answer
by Kevin Kennedy, Ph.D., Mar 13, 2008 05:39AM
, Mar 13, 2008 05:39AM
Both of these episodes indicate that, like many children, your daughter's behavior becomes disorganized when she is tired. May parents will be familiar with how unsettled children can become when they are depleted in any way (hunger, exhaustion, illness). If your daughter is doing well when she is not in a sate of tiredness, the behavior is not worrisome. It does need to be managed, and the staff at the program should place her in time out if she behaves in an aggressive way. They should also, if they have to wake her after a nap, do so in a quiet, gentle, patient manner. Your spanking her is not helpful. The staff at the program should handle the behavior when it occurs.
