This might not even come out clear because I am full of rage.
Monday I picked up my child from daycare (an on post military daycare) and noticed he had a few scratches on his arm and face. I was handed an incident report that said my child walked up the the teacher crying. They noticed scratches on his neck. That’s basically all it said.
I requested to watch video footage. What I saw was horrific, heartbreaking, and an assault on a three year old.
A child was chasing my kid. Pulled him down from behind by the collar. That kid started punching him. Another child came over and started hitting my child in the face with a ball. When he was done with the ball, he started hitting my child all over his head and face with punches. Actual punches. So two kids beating on my child and no one paying attention to it.
Please give me guidance yall, because this mama is about to lose her shit.
My son at 3 is worse about getting into things than he ever was at 11 and even 18 months. We’ve literally had to put a lock and latch on everything in increasing measure over the months. I’m lying in the ER waiting for someone to stitch my butt cheek because he figured out how to open the dishwasher. He got hold of a steak knife and got me in the ass with it. He wasn’t being malicious - he was playing. He knows not to play with knives. They are out of reach and the dishwasher had JUST finished a cycle. He’s never gotten into it before.
I’m so sick of it and it’s literally now a pain in the ass. We have locks on the trash, the pantry doors and the fridge because he’s just in everything all the time. He literally cannot be left alone even for 5 minutes. When he was 2 I could 100% go to the bathroom by myself and things would be fine. Now I have to take him with me because he can’t behave himself otherwise.
He gets lots of time to burn off energy. He starts UPK in the fall but goes to a part time program 2x per week. We go outside a lot (almost 5 hours daily between the morning and afternoon before bed) he runs, he jumps, he trikes, he has swimming and gymnastics during the week and his dad wrestles with him when he gets home. We also rotate toys and not a lot is out at once. I am genuinely just tired now and sick of it. Help!
