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my ds is 2 1/2. He attends a daycare center. He has been there since he was very young and has always done well there. The past couple of weeks he has been going through a wave of what we considered normal 2 1/2 year old ups and downs at home. His teacher mentioned to us one day that he started being pushy with his friends and not showing any empathy about it. We were told that this is not normal and that the teacher has not seen or learned about children at this age not showing any empathy. This news made us very upset. She seemed very concerned. I did not have to look far to find quite the opposite info on young children showing empathy or the lack there of. I felt like she did not really have the correct info and made us feel like there was something really wrong with him because of this.
am I right to think that children at this age don't always show empathy for their actions?
am I right to think that children at this age don't always show empathy for their actions?