daycare says baby is aggressive (9 months)

[gollygee]

37. I guess I give them the benefit of the doubt here

for two reasons. One, daycares don't require advanced education in writing or any other kind of communication. I think it's an unfair expectation that a daycare worker choose perfect words. Two, the description sounds fair and reasonable, other than that word. Babies that age do sometimes play rough without knowing what they're doing.

I don't know what the parents can do about it though. It isn't like you can simply explain this stuff to a baby. You can hold her hand and say "gentle hands" over and over again, but it's going to take a while. It is largely a supervision problem, because it's also an unfair expectation that every 9-month-old baby is going to understand how to play appropriately. She's a baby! They reach and grab and flail their arms around and have no idea how it's affecting anyone else. Some babies are quieter than others, and some are less physical than others, but none of them are bad.