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I have a 4 year old DCG who is always seeking attention from everyone in her presence. From the moment she gets here she is asking me questions like "Do you like my shirt (pants,socks,hair,etc) today?" "Do you think this is cool?", when showing me what she is playing with. "Isn't this awesome" when showing me artwork. She also will repeat questions she has already asked about several times throughout the day. ("Do you like my shirt?") She asks these questions to the other daycare kids as well.
Where I really struggle is when the other daycare parents come to pick up there children at the end of the day and she wants them paying attention to her instead of their own children. An example of this would be "Hey Sally's mom, watch this!" "Hey Jack's dad, look what I can do!"
I feel like I have always been pretty good with praising kids when they have good behavior, treating other nicely, etc. I just feel like this child can't get enough praise and attention! I also feel like the other parents get somewhat annoyed with her wanting their attention everyday at pickup when they just want to be able to talk to their own child and see how their day went.
She is the youngest of three children and her two older siblings are four and six years older than her. The parents have joked about leaving her out of family vacations, going other places without her, and taking days off to spend with the older children while she comes to daycare. I have been told by DCM, "When she gets older, she is probably going to be looking through photos from our vacations some day and asking, how come I'm not in this pictures?!" They have started including her more in their outings as she has gotten older, but many times she is still brought to daycare while the rest of her family is home or has a special "family" day planned. Some of these days are times when she will be my only daycare child here and my children and husband are happen to be home because of days off of school/work. So she is essentially an extension to my family for the day instead of getting to spend time with her family. And they are always aware of when this is the case, because I ask them to leave her car seat so we can go places.
I have to believe that this plays a big part in why she is so attention seeking, but what can I do to help her stop doing this?
Where I really struggle is when the other daycare parents come to pick up there children at the end of the day and she wants them paying attention to her instead of their own children. An example of this would be "Hey Sally's mom, watch this!" "Hey Jack's dad, look what I can do!"
I feel like I have always been pretty good with praising kids when they have good behavior, treating other nicely, etc. I just feel like this child can't get enough praise and attention! I also feel like the other parents get somewhat annoyed with her wanting their attention everyday at pickup when they just want to be able to talk to their own child and see how their day went.
She is the youngest of three children and her two older siblings are four and six years older than her. The parents have joked about leaving her out of family vacations, going other places without her, and taking days off to spend with the older children while she comes to daycare. I have been told by DCM, "When she gets older, she is probably going to be looking through photos from our vacations some day and asking, how come I'm not in this pictures?!" They have started including her more in their outings as she has gotten older, but many times she is still brought to daycare while the rest of her family is home or has a special "family" day planned. Some of these days are times when she will be my only daycare child here and my children and husband are happen to be home because of days off of school/work. So she is essentially an extension to my family for the day instead of getting to spend time with her family. And they are always aware of when this is the case, because I ask them to leave her car seat so we can go places.
I have to believe that this plays a big part in why she is so attention seeking, but what can I do to help her stop doing this?
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