This child probably needs a combination of positive attention when he is behaving appropriately and slightly negative attention (i.e. a mild negative consequence) for unacceptable behavior. For instance, if he hits someone he can be sent to a "thinking chair" where he must sit for 2 minutes before he can get up and play again. During that time, you should not talk to him or look at him - you want to withdraw attention from him when he misbehaves and lavish it on him when he is behaving well. If he won't sit for that 2 minutes in the thinking chair, then you may be able to have an assistant teacher take the child out of the room for 2 minutes. If that happens, the assistant must also be careful not to give attention to him while he is being disciplined - she should just stand quietly with him until the 2 minutes is up. You don't want the child getting quality private attention from a teacher when he misbehaves because this would only show the child that misbehavior earns him one-on-one time with an adult! So try this and see and how it goes.   Sarah Chana

Hi - as a parent with a child in daycare who was the receipant of an aggressive child, my suggestion is to not only report it to your director, but also the parents of child need to be made aware of the issue.  From there, the child needs to be put into a smaller group of kids where a teacher can better monitor and keep the child in activiites.  If it still doesn't change, the child needs to be removed from the daycare.  It's not fair for the other kids to continiously be subjected to this behavior.. . .  and the parents of the other kids, don't bring their kids to the daycare to have their kids be terriorized. 

My child wasn't eating and acting out at home for about a week before I starting asking questions at daycare.  While there, I saw a child chasing my son around, cornered him and hit him repeatly in the face. . . my son was 18 months.  I was extremely upset that the daycare wasn't doing it's job in  providing a safe environment for my child. NOW, I'm being told my kid (who's almost 2) isn't "agressive enough" and that's scaring me that maybe this minature bully has already affected my childs esteem.