Noah has come home from school the past 2 days telling us some of his friends at school are "mean/not nice", "hurt him", "make him sad/cry", and "have time up" (aka time out). We asked his teacher at school about this and she had no clue what we were talking about. Yesterday he told us a whole story about a little girl who is a good friend of his and wasn't even at school yesterday. He is obviously making this stuff up. When we drop him off at school he runs up to the very kids he is telling us aren't nice and plays with them. It's strange.
He just started getting time outs, but really only for hitting us. We don't use the word mean with him, but we have told him that is not nice.
Does this sound normal? I hate that he is making up stories about his good friends at school.
Re: obsession with "mean" and "time out"
My 3.5 year old makes up crazy stories about school also. He was having some real issues with school actually, and it was impossible to find out exactly what was going on because he was telling me nonsense.
He even told me the teacher didn't show up for school one day and he had to teach the class. The other day I was volunteering in class and I heard him tell everyone that he just got a hamster. I have no idea where he comes up with this stuff but I am afraid I am raising a lying liar.
I am glad my DC isn't the only one who makes up crazy stuff.
Madelyn makes stuff up all the time, and has been for a while. Mostly harmless.
Hopefully she never gets like my nephew. He used to go to daycare and tell them his mother pushed him down the stairs...things of that nature. Obviously he had no marks on his body, so they knew it wasn't true.