a whole new kid

after this, i swear i am done talking about this. but it's been two weeks since Q's former teacher left the school and he has not had a bad day since. i never really blogged about his bad behavior because i was so frustrated and trying so hard to fix it in anyway i could think of. but it was bad. he was terrible at school every day - hitting, kicking, spitting, throwing things, smearing poop (oh yeah), things he's NEVER done - and then a depressed lump of kid at home. all he wanted to do was lay on the couch and play angry birds on the ipad. he barely even played with his monster trucks. he didn't interact with the other kids at school anymore - i always found him in the corner playing by himself at the end of the day and he didn't participate in any of the activities throughout the day either. we had several meetings with the director, trying to understand what was causing the change in him and brainstorming on how to fix it. we were even looking for a kiddie shrink to bring him to, since we never had any luck with getting him to talk to us about what was going on inside his head. i was also looking for new daycare because i didn't think the situation was fixable. but now... holy cow. he smiles again. he doesn't fight us every morning because he doesn't want to go to school. he's not counting down each day to the weekend. he has an imagination again. he interacts with the other kids in his class again. he's back to being himself. it's truly amazing to me how quickly he bounced back and shocking how toxic one stupid daycare teacher can be.