3 year old aggressive with other classmates

My daughter is 3 and is about to get kicked out of her preschool class.

She frequently hits the other kids. The teachers have spoken to her, and her father and and I have punished her but she doesn’t stop. It happens almost every day. If she gets kicked out of the preschool, I don’t know what we will do. We have no other childcare options and I am not even sure if she can start up in another school halfway thru the year. Most schools and daycares have waiting lists

How can I stop this behavior?? And has anyone ever had their child kicked out? I am so upset and embarrassed

Editing to answer some questions-

She doesn’t have any kind of diagnosis. She will tell the other kids they are being bad and not listening to her and then she hits them. She also does this if the kids don’t listen to the teacher. For example, when the teacher rings a bell, the kids are supposed to sit down. If they don’t sit down she will go to hit them. She does this too with her cousins, she will tell them to do something and if they don’t she hits them. It is a problem at home but I am more concerned with school since she is about to get kicked out.

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JB

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Do you spank or hit her when she doesn’t listen? It kind of sounds like she’s imitating whatever correction she gets at school with the other kids.

JB

JB • Dec 19, 2022
Corrections she gets at home or elsewhere, with the other kids at school**

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If you panish her when she gets home, she'll have zero clue as to why she is punished. She's 3. She can't remember what happened four hours ago.She's acting out for a reason. Does she have anything that could point towards a possible diagnoses of some kind? Are there specific situations where this happens? How is she at home and when you're out with family and friends? Is she agressive then? If not, it might be the school that's the problem.

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Then I would ask myself why she thinks it's okay to punish others by hitting them when they behave wrong. She has been taught somehow that's how you deal with that.

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Sounds like shes imitating how shes disciplined...

Sa

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Do you hit her? If so you need to stop that yesterday. Obviously.At home, there needs to be immediate consequences for hitting. She hits a cousin she’s immediately in time out or whatever.At school, there also needs to be immediate consequences. Talk to them about a plan to address it there.

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It definitely sounds like she is imitating her home discipline. Which is something you should sort out if that’s what’s happening because if she’s being hit to get her way or to be punished it’s hard to explain to her that that’s not how she’s allowed to do things. But it also sounds like she’s trying to “help” and “enforce” and be in control. I would work on at home having some things she can have control over and some jobs that are hers to help with to let her have some ownership over some things that aren’t other kids. I also would explain, and maybe even take a few days off work and ask if you can come in to watch and monitor her behavior to try to help correct it. Then I would explain to her in those moments that you see that she is trying to help and is upset when she sees someone not listening to her or to the teacher but it’s never ok to hit and it’s not her job to make the other students do things- it’s the teachers job and HER job is to be a good example for her friends and do what the teachers asks and encourage her friends with her words and to learn and whatever else they focus on at school. Help her to understand what IS her job and what is not.

Au

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Sounds like she's imitating the way she's disciplined at home

br

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Do you or anyone hit her if she doesn’t listen

Li

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Needs to see child therapy and needed to see a Dr.

Gi

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Someone is quite obviously hitting her when she doesn’t listen I’m assuming it’s either you both or someone in the familyShe’s being taught hitting is ok because someone hits her

Ja

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I work in a daycare and I feel like kicking a child out for just hitting other kids is a bit much. Hitting is a normal 3 year old behavior. Is she leaving marks when she is hitting? Are the other kids scared of her? Is she hitting the teacher? Is she saying inappropriate things? I feel like you should talk to the teacher and find out if there are other things going on as well.