We are thinking of sending him to creche for 3 mornings a week (8.30 - 12.30)

Mainly for him to learn to interact with other children (he just has no idea what they are, so ignores them and interacts with adults basically), and also so they can do activities that i don't have time/energy to do with him (art etc), and so he gets a rotation of toys (not that he really seems to like anything out of the big toy box he has)... Of course, my mum thinks i'm horrible doing this (apparently its fine if i need to work, but to send him for his own reasons is terrible???)... at least i don't work, so if he hates it, i'll take him out

I'm hoping also it will teach him some discipline (i.e. sitting still etc, not the getting smacked kind), and maybe have his own routine so when the baby comes he won't get so upset.

But other mothers at the park can stand and talk to each other while their kids play at one thing for a little bit (or sit on their mum's lap on the see-saw).. i just literally run from one end of the park to the other constantly, and i would rather not go TBH...

We got him crayola textas etc, but he will bang them on the paper for all of about 10 secs, and then wants to get down (actually, he is more taken with taking the lids on and off first).. he just can't do anything for a longish period of time..

He is worse when he doesn't get a good day sleep (like today he probably only had 1.5 - 2 good hours).. he just gets more hypo and cranky-pants that way.. of course, he is a perfect angel for everyone else!

I don't know if i'm a bad mother, if i made a rod for my own back (gosh, i never thought i would say that), by not teaching him to play by himself (i thought he would come out well adjusted and happy if i didn't leave him ina room by himself as a newborn for 2 hours... but i did leave him for 15-20 mins at a time), or if this would have happened anyway?

And DH and I are like these calm, non-hypo adults (and weren't like him at all as children apparently)... i wonder if he will change??