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Opinion please, I am on the fence on this one.
Normally I don't mention "typical" behaviors to parents unless they become an issue which I am unable to solve. I see it as part of the job and working with children.
DCB who is 3.5 has begun screaming for mom whenever he is sent to time out (which is not often). Today he kept putting a toy animal on another child's butt. The child told DCB to stop. He did it again. I then told him to stop and he did it a third time. After that I told him he could play for a few minutes by himself on a rug. This is generally what T/O is here. He sat down and screamed. I told him he could play nicely by himself or he could sit in the crying spot. He chose the crying spot. He went to the crying spot and screamed "Mom, come back. I don't want to be here. Mom, I don't want to be at Miss BB's house, mom come back."
A couple of weeks ago DCB mentioned to me that he had cried prior to drop off that he didn't want to come here. Mom didn't mention it. FWIW: DCB has a 3 month old brother and grandma and grandpa are in town helping. I would want to stay home too.
Should I mention this to mom? Verbally say something, write it up in an incident report?
I hesitate to saying anything mundane to parents, but I also know that hearing your child say "I don't want to go there" can be jarring to parents without an explanation as to why their child is saying that.
Normally I don't mention "typical" behaviors to parents unless they become an issue which I am unable to solve. I see it as part of the job and working with children.
DCB who is 3.5 has begun screaming for mom whenever he is sent to time out (which is not often). Today he kept putting a toy animal on another child's butt. The child told DCB to stop. He did it again. I then told him to stop and he did it a third time. After that I told him he could play for a few minutes by himself on a rug. This is generally what T/O is here. He sat down and screamed. I told him he could play nicely by himself or he could sit in the crying spot. He chose the crying spot. He went to the crying spot and screamed "Mom, come back. I don't want to be here. Mom, I don't want to be at Miss BB's house, mom come back."
A couple of weeks ago DCB mentioned to me that he had cried prior to drop off that he didn't want to come here. Mom didn't mention it. FWIW: DCB has a 3 month old brother and grandma and grandpa are in town helping. I would want to stay home too.
Should I mention this to mom? Verbally say something, write it up in an incident report?
I hesitate to saying anything mundane to parents, but I also know that hearing your child say "I don't want to go there" can be jarring to parents without an explanation as to why their child is saying that.
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