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Mean Kids - Age 4 :(
MrsBrandiGreene
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At the tender age of 4, it appears there are mean kids in daycare 
I know this is something we'll all deal with one day, but I didnt expect to so soon. (Caveat....Harrison does have a proven vivid imagination...see the breaking arm story)
He told me last night at lunch that a boy in the Private PreK class said - "Your shirt is stupid and you're stupid". He told me last night with tears in his eyes I told him to just tell the boy that he didnt know what he was talking about and walk away. How sad is that!! I remember stuff like that from grade school/middle school and it honestly hurts more when its your own child! ugh....this parent thing is hard!!
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Re: Mean Kids - Age 4 :(
I am totally with you on this. Carter just recently (as in 2 weeks ago) moved up to the Private Pre-K class. He'll be 4 in a few weeks. There is a BIG difference in children that are 4.5 and close to turning 5 in that class. The kids can be ruthless.
He's already come home on several occassions and said that a certain child in class calls him a baby, and that he can't be in that class b/c he's not 4 yet. Another kid calls him "mean". Poor kid was in tears.
So tough for him, but it's part of life's lessons.
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That is just awful!!
We are dealing with it with Alec. He had been telling us that a boy named Chase kept hitting him in the back. Well, I just found out that Chase is almost 4 and sometimes is in Alec's classroom in the mornings before his teacher arrives.
DH has been trying to coach Alec to hit Chase back, but Alec just says, I'm nice and I don't hit".
That is heartbreaking.
Sadly many of my kindergarteners are meanies too. They can be so rude to each other. And some of the ones that are, I see where they get it honestly. I think it's a bunch of the garbage they watch on TV and copy too. Some of those Disney shows are just baby soap operas. So many kids are just spoiled rotten and have this sense of entitelement. Their parents cater to them all day long. I think at this young of an age they have to learn it from somewhere.
And Heather, your story just gave me a flashback to elementary school and a group of girls I was friends with. Ugh, awful. Someone was left out everyday for whatever reason. I came home in tears often. But at 2?? Scarry.
I'm sorry. That is horrible.
I noticed my SIL's niece doing the same thing to Ridge over Easter. I wanted to punch her. Luckily Ridge didn't really catch on to what she was doing/saying.
I struggle with this. Emma has a tendency to be mean to other kids. I don't think she ever said anything like what the little boy said to Harrison but sometimes she's just not kind to others. She is very compassionate, she will go out of her way to help a kid that's lost, or get a band-aid if someone gets scrape, that kind of stuff but she would often torment some of the kids in her class. And usually it was someone that was weaker, slower, more shy, etc. I talked to my pedi about it on many occassions and she felt like Emma was just exhibiting alpha characteristics. One of the key phrases that has gotten me though some tough times as Emma's mom is that I have to wait for her head and her heart to match up. It's not that she's a mean kid, she's still figuring out her place in the world and with positive encouragement I am confident that she'll get it right sooner or later.
I wanted to add that she's also been on the receiving end before too. And honestly, I think that as she's gotten older and had her feelings hurt or been left out or excluded has helped her understand how NOT to act towards others.
I tell you, the older Emma gets the more I realize that the baby/toddler stage is a freaking cakewalk.