My 3.5 yo daughter strongly dislikes a little boy who we see a couple times a week at our home for an hour at a time max. He is a year younger than her and a pretty easy going happy kid. She is awful to him. She screams at him, hates him touching her stuff, if he asks her to play she screams no at him. Will openly say she doesn't she like him and that he is not nice in front of his own mum :( She says to me at other times she doesn't like him because he is not nice and wont share (she says pretty much exactly whst she does to him... i never ever see him treat her unfairly, he just wants to play... he walks away from her or just smirks at her) he is the only kid she does this too. Ive tried ignoring it, having chats about feelings and its ok to not like someone but we still treat them kindly etc, then to me yelling at her to knock it off. What the hell?? And worse is her lil 1yo sis is copying her. And now my 3yo tells me the 1yo doesn't like him either. How do i combat this?? At least stop her screaming at him!! It worries me she will use this behaviour to other kids she decides she doesn't like :( ..
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She will.
I would use time out. If she can't play nicely she has to sit out until she can play nicely.