Hi,
I’m posting this in “childhood years”, but also thought I’d put it in “parenting” in case anyone with older children has BTDT.
My daughter is 3 and is having a hard time dealing with her frustrations while in preschool. The school suggested a developmental assessment (in the process of scheduling this) as it seems she has trouble processing info when in hectic environments and some time she becomes overwhelmed. At both home (us) and school (her teachers), we are talking with her - modeling appropriate language, offering choices and reassurance, but there are a lot of days when she has some trouble dealing with her emotions. Below is an excerpt from the teacher’s email. In addition to this, she had 2 other similar situations yesterday.
Of course, we notice some of this at home, but not as much as they do in class since things at home are a lot quieter. Her play dates are either with another child or with small groups and outside of school, she mainly interacts with large groups at playgrounds and indoor play centers.
Can anyone offer suggestions on anything else we can do to help guide her through this? She loves going to school (twice a week) and the teachers are wonderful, but I hate that she gets so upset and that I haven’t been able to help her and also feel bad that she is disrupting the class so often.
“She was a bit emotional during the morning, however, and had some difficulty dealing with her emotions. For example, she wanted to carry a basket (we had three that were exactly alike) but the specific one she wanted to use was being used by another child. We offered her one of the other baskets, but she was so emotionally distraught that she could not have the one she wanted, it was hard to redirect her attention from that particular item. She did end up using a different one once she calmed down. Incidents similar to this happened about three times yesterday.”
