>< losers and rock throwing
So Catherine walks in the door crying. I of course think, 'what little shit out there has hurt my daughter?' Well, come to find out, Catherine's came in to tell me that another Mother wants to speak to me.
:-o
Catherine was just now involved with her first petty rivalry dispute. Cameron, the fat brat across the street, got her and Toty, the 4 year old next door, to throw rocks and call 3 other kids 'Losers'.
Imagine the look on my face.
So here I am, standing on my porch with 1 crying Catherine, 3 disgruntled kids and 1 very calm mother. Thank god this mother was a teacher and has deals with kids day to day because I had no idea how to react. I was like, 'What? She did what? Catherine? What? ROCKS?!! THROWING?!! She said what??!!!'
Catherine ultimately apologized and hugged the other kiddos, all of whom invited her to ride bikes and play on their trampoline. The mom said she told the other parents and I asked what the fat one's mom said. Cameron is grounded...again...apparently. I'm friends (as much as I can be with just meeting her like 3 weeks ago) with her mom but honestly I dont want Catherine playing over there but that's where ALL the kids hang out.
I'm 31 years old and I hate the neighborhood 6 year old bully. /snarl
I was so not prepared for this. Catherine's been by herself for the most part for the past year. We always lived too far from other kids. As an only child, she's used to playing by herself but hasn't encountered these 'right or wrong' situations.
/sigh
Where the fuck is my kid manual? I was promised a child rearing manual!!!!
Veb and I are sitting her down tonight over dinner and having the 'right and wrong choices' talk. =x
But, I do have to second the martial arts thing. They do have classes for her age students at many schools. I did taekwondo all the way thru black belt. I'd love to go back to it one day.
The next time a situation like that happens and she says no, praise her ALOT! Good luck hun.
*hugs*
My mom said that to me when I was little, and even then I was like "what bridge? why the hell would everyone be jumping off a bridge??"
Did she like offer them some of her candy? I just don't get how convincing a fat kid can be.
fat kids don't share candy... at least, I never did.
Mae, send Catherine for martial arts lessons. That way she'll develop the discipline and confidence to deal with these things better.
Well, if everyone else in existance jumped off the bridge, why WOULDN'T I? I mean, hell wandering around on a completely empty earth would be cool for the first... I dunno 5 minutes. Then it'd be boring as all hell.
I would take a joy ride and play demoltion derby with everyone's car. I would only drive the ones that were 60k plus.
I would enjoy getting drunk and watching porno in full sized movie theaters.
I would send the all clear message to the aliens who were planning our demise.
I would nuke Russia anyways. Why not?
I would learn use United Airlines planes as my own RC Airplane fleet. Just to crash them in various ways.
I would randomly blow stuff up.
I would go to area-51 and find out who REALLY shot JFK.
I would eat all the ice cream.
So yeah, go jump off a bridge, I will be a one man mayhem brigade.
I think she'll enjoy it and i'm hoping that the instructor teaches those discipline fundamentals. If not, there's another place off base that the neighbor takes her kids to, although she said it was expensive. Granted this is the mother that took off all her clothes so... :shock:
I think she'll enjoy it and i'm hoping that the instructor teaches those discipline fundamentals.
Or she will learn to effectively punch someone in the kidneys after breaking their nose. Also an effective manner for dealing with disputes as children.
That works too =D We had that talk with her and I think it helped. She refused to put on kid makeup at the sleepover she went to because, 'I dont think my daddy would let me do that'. HOW CUTE IS THAT?!
Hmm, seems that Veb's on the right track now. Keep it up so when she turns 16 she won't do too many stupid things.
