A six-year-old child slapping his teachers, throwing markers across the room, walking on top of the tables, and refusing to leave the room with the director is not being that bad "because he is starting to come down with something."
I had a three-year-old throw a HIGHLY embarrassing tantrum because someone walked into the room with cupcakes they were taking home, and wouldn't give her one. She clung to my leg screaming "I want a cupcake!" for half an hour...meanwhile another child was being picked up, and her mother literally just STARED at the tantrum-er for ten minutes straight, flabbergasted. She was disgusted by the kid's behaviour, and spoke out claiming "that is the most spoiled child I've ever seen!" as the child starting kicking and hitting me, because the person with the cupcakes didn't give her one. Nothing could calm her down and she took a long time to stop lashing out. When she finally got picked up, her mom told me she thought she was getting sick and that's why she's been misbehaving, and proceeded to ask her daughter if she wanted to stop at the grocery store to get....A CUPCAKE! The kid screamed "no I want a whole tray of cupcakes!" and the mother didn't seem phased at ALL.
A three-year-old child is not biting because he's been bitten "like 200 times" before. Of course it may make him more prone to biting, but I've found it VERY rare for a three-year-old that's developmentally on track to bite. And it's a bit odd that when your kid bit someone, unprovoked, and I asked him why he did it, he answered "because I wanted to!"
On a lighter note, I love how children are SUCH sponges. I taught one of my three-year-olds today that a bruise is also called a hematoma, and he did a great job remembering that word. I was so proud!
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