Monday, November 3, 2008

What Do You Do.........

when the grandson of the lady who babysits your kid plows your kid over, makes her knock her head, then smiles with delight over the fact that he just railroaded your kid on to the floor? This kid isn't tiny, either. He's 3 months younger than my girlfriend, stands a good 2" over her, and outweighs her by approximately 10lbs. The thing that really got me was that after he did this, his grandmother tells him "oh that's not how we tickle". Excuse me.... that's not how we tickle??? Did she mean that's not how we tackle? If it happens again, do I correct him myself and let his grandmother be mad at me or what? I'm not going to allow him to just shove my kid on the floor, and then have nothing be done about it. I understand that my girl is gonna get hurt, but to allow a child to just steamroll another one then call it tickling? I was a little unhappy about that situation! What would you do?

3 comments:

Grace said...

I think we should somehow figure out a way to teleport her to me every morning, so that I could spoil her rotten all day and then send her back to you at the end of the day!!

Seriously though, that's a tough one, but if it happens again and grannie-dear does nothing about it, you can correct him. You don't have to be nasty and mean about it. If nothing else, what you'll be doing is letting grannie-dear know that you noticed that it happened and didn't like it one bit. Sort of a passive-aggressive sort of thing, ya know... talk to the the grannie while looking at the child. Of course, if you're like me, it's very hard not to correct someone else's child when you spend your entire day doing so. I know it's difficult to leave your "teacher-mode" at the front door of the school building. I haven't been in a teacher position for years now, and it's still tough sometimes.

Becky said...

OK, so I'm pretty sure we're the same person. LOL. I saw you on Not Me Monday and came on over....
1. we have the same background
2. we both have grandchildren of lady who keeps our baby issues.
3.. we apparently both have husbands who love that horrible cartoon show.
4. both of our daughters come up and ask for medicine.
I stopped reading there...got too freaky for me. LOL Nice to meet you!

Becky said...

Oh...I forgot to mention Brain Age 2. It is wonderful, you should definitely get it.