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I'm at the end of my rope with this one and need some help in a "what would you do?" situation. What I am doing is clearly not working....I have a part day 2 year 3 month old daycare boy. For months he has thrown things at the other kids or across the room, hit the other kids...he's on the hyper side and even broke my Ipod touch (should of had it up but my 11 year old had it down in the dock player and well, I'm only one person). I chalked it up to his age but he's over 2 now and the kids are constatnly getting hurt by his throwing/hitting.
Anyway, my concern is that he is hitting the kids with hard objects and hurting them. A couple months ago he gave my other 2 year old daycare boy a purple bruise from throwing a fridge phonics hard toy at his eye. He doesn't appear to do it out of anger (maybe sometimes but usually it happens without warning, like it's a fun thing for him to do).
When he does these things I have a pack n play set up in my 2nd living room that I put him in for a short time (usually 2 min.) and explain to him what he is doing hurts and is naughty. So he says he will be a good boy and not even 2min. later he's hitting/throwing again. This cycle can go on and on and is exhausting.
Do you have any thoughts or ideas that will help this behavior stop? Yesterday I was playing on the floor with the boy and my youngest daughter with a hard plastic train set and out of nowhere he picked up one of the trains and smashed it on my daughters head for no reason at all. Then after that he pulled my 11 year old daughter's hair because she was getting him down from climbing on a chair...THEN after that he was swatting at my 7 year old daughter for no reason. It is getting hard on everyone but a part of me is hoping he will grow out of it or something I can do will curve this.
I have told his mother of this behavior several times...at first she was upset he was doing these things, now I'm not sure, I can't really read her..doesn't seem like she expresses concern...I don't think she understand what I deal with on a daily basis because he has no other kids at his home to do these things to, but I know he's busy/throws at home.
I don't know what to do, just looking for thoughts or advise I guess. Thanks.
Anyway, my concern is that he is hitting the kids with hard objects and hurting them. A couple months ago he gave my other 2 year old daycare boy a purple bruise from throwing a fridge phonics hard toy at his eye. He doesn't appear to do it out of anger (maybe sometimes but usually it happens without warning, like it's a fun thing for him to do).
When he does these things I have a pack n play set up in my 2nd living room that I put him in for a short time (usually 2 min.) and explain to him what he is doing hurts and is naughty. So he says he will be a good boy and not even 2min. later he's hitting/throwing again. This cycle can go on and on and is exhausting.
Do you have any thoughts or ideas that will help this behavior stop? Yesterday I was playing on the floor with the boy and my youngest daughter with a hard plastic train set and out of nowhere he picked up one of the trains and smashed it on my daughters head for no reason at all. Then after that he pulled my 11 year old daughter's hair because she was getting him down from climbing on a chair...THEN after that he was swatting at my 7 year old daughter for no reason. It is getting hard on everyone but a part of me is hoping he will grow out of it or something I can do will curve this.
I have told his mother of this behavior several times...at first she was upset he was doing these things, now I'm not sure, I can't really read her..doesn't seem like she expresses concern...I don't think she understand what I deal with on a daily basis because he has no other kids at his home to do these things to, but I know he's busy/throws at home.
I don't know what to do, just looking for thoughts or advise I guess. Thanks.
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