3 years old!

Russell is 3 years old now and he is starting to attend nursery school. Today I got a call from Ms. Darlene saying that Russell was fighting with Alex over water bottles. After reading Piaget’s book on how children’s minds work I knew the answer to what was happening. My son is currently 3 years old which places him in the preoperational stage. In this stage kids tend to be egocentric and don’t have the ability to take on another’s point of view. I will try to explain to Russell that the other water bottle doesn’t belong to him, and that it belongs to Alex. I hope this works but I’m not so sure because his brain just doesn’t work like that yet.
Apart from that he has been a very happy and loving 3 year old. His current obcesion is Thomas the Train. We remodeled his room and filled it with Thomas furniture and toys. He seems to love it which makes me happy.

Also lately Fernando and I have been very busy with our jobs so we are dropping him off at the local day care center every time our schedules crash. I was a bit worried about it but I did some research and found out that daycares have shown no detrimental effects on children over the age of three.