I can't decide if I'm over reacting or not... I picked my very verbal 2 1/2 year old DS up from preschool today, and as a matter of conversation he mentions that he slept in the hallway by his cubby at nap time. Now, I realize that this is coming out of the mouth of a 2 year old, so I need to take it for what it's worth, but at the same time, I'm not sure where he would even come up with that idea if it didn't happen.
The background on the napping situation is that DS has had a hard time sleeping at school for the past couple of months. He still very much needs a nap and easily sleeps for 2-3 hours when he's at home, but at school there's just too much distraction for him to sleep. His teachers have told me repeatedly that he doesn't cause trouble, get off of his cot, or make lots of noise. He just repeatedly fixes his pillow and blanket, and sometimes chats with himself. I know that for this reason they have sometimes moved his cot to the other side of the room from the other children to minimize his distraction, and of course allow the other children to sleep.
Last week was his regular teacher's last week of the summer, as she is taking a vacation for the remainder of the summer, and lo and behold today he tells me he slept in the hallway. (His exact words were, "Today I sleeped in the hallway at school, right by my cubby.") I get the impression from the director that she is at least slightly annoyed that he won't go to sleep, and I wouldn't put it past her to have come up with this idea. It just... feels like her.
Anyway, am I over reacting by being annoyed about this? I understand moving him away from the other children so he doesn't keep them awake, but his teacher is the one telling me over and over that he isn't disruptive, so I don't see the reason to put him all alone out of the room. It's a small school and the outside doors are always locked, so I'm not as much worried about his direct safety, as I am about the fact that I don't want him to feel punished or segregated in any way.
My husband and I have already decided that this will be his last month at this school, and he will start at a new school in August for 2010-11 school year. He's had a good year at this school. I just feel like today's incident wasn't right. As a side note, he had a potty accident in the car on the way home, which leads me to believe that they didn't take him potty after nap time. That would have been less than an hour before I picked him up. This is a child who has been potty trained for 8 months. I can't imagine he would have had to go so badly that he couldn't hold it 4 minutes until we got home, unless he hadn't been in hours. I'm very disappointed today, and feeling bad for my little guy.
The background on the napping situation is that DS has had a hard time sleeping at school for the past couple of months. He still very much needs a nap and easily sleeps for 2-3 hours when he's at home, but at school there's just too much distraction for him to sleep. His teachers have told me repeatedly that he doesn't cause trouble, get off of his cot, or make lots of noise. He just repeatedly fixes his pillow and blanket, and sometimes chats with himself. I know that for this reason they have sometimes moved his cot to the other side of the room from the other children to minimize his distraction, and of course allow the other children to sleep.
Last week was his regular teacher's last week of the summer, as she is taking a vacation for the remainder of the summer, and lo and behold today he tells me he slept in the hallway. (His exact words were, "Today I sleeped in the hallway at school, right by my cubby.") I get the impression from the director that she is at least slightly annoyed that he won't go to sleep, and I wouldn't put it past her to have come up with this idea. It just... feels like her.
Anyway, am I over reacting by being annoyed about this? I understand moving him away from the other children so he doesn't keep them awake, but his teacher is the one telling me over and over that he isn't disruptive, so I don't see the reason to put him all alone out of the room. It's a small school and the outside doors are always locked, so I'm not as much worried about his direct safety, as I am about the fact that I don't want him to feel punished or segregated in any way.
My husband and I have already decided that this will be his last month at this school, and he will start at a new school in August for 2010-11 school year. He's had a good year at this school. I just feel like today's incident wasn't right. As a side note, he had a potty accident in the car on the way home, which leads me to believe that they didn't take him potty after nap time. That would have been less than an hour before I picked him up. This is a child who has been potty trained for 8 months. I can't imagine he would have had to go so badly that he couldn't hold it 4 minutes until we got home, unless he hadn't been in hours. I'm very disappointed today, and feeling bad for my little guy.
