The present study deals with the institution in which many children spend a large part of their daily lives and thus their childhood. In preschool, the child is at the center of schooling and a part of a scheme with specific requirements, expectations and hopes.

The aim is to highlight how children are referred to and created as subjects when their behavior challenges or puzzles staff at preschool as a discursive practice.

The understanding that form the basis of this study is preschool staff’s experiences from professional practice and the difficulties that may exist when dealing with children that are challenging.

Through interviews with 4 pedagogues and after elucidating different discourses when it comes to children that are challenging on the ground that they relate to how pedagogues talks about children in different context. I´ve noticed four different discourses, children that upsets the natural order, children and situations of transition, children that puzzles and children and early interventions.

 The result of the present study insinuated that it seems to be a discrepancy between the discourses about children that are challenging and the governing that control action and thinking in practice. For this a discourse analytic perspective with focus on power, mainly inspired by Michel Foucault has been used and Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis inspired by Gramsci and his use of hegemony.