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Intro again, and question for those of you with school kids
I have been in and out of this board a little bit but here is my intro again I am a SAHM I have a 3yo and 5 yo and my daughter just started
kindergarten, we had conferences a couple weeks ago and these are the
two things I am concerned about, any suggestions on how to handle both
would be appreciated. My daughter is very shy, passive, and sensitive.
1. I was told that my daughter is quick to tears, she cries very easily like if someone budges in line in front of her or say something mean. I understand it hurts her feelings but how do I help her better cope and handle the situation in a better way?
2. I was also told that there is a girl in the class that treats my daughter and another girl in the class like...(not sure how to word it) her followers? The teacher thought enough to mention it as a concern being as how they are only in kindergarten. Also I worry because I have seen this child being quite rude and demanding to other children?! How would you handle this situation? Its not that I don't want my child to be friends with her its just that I want her to know she doesn't have to do everything the other kid tells her to do?
TIA for any advice I am just not sure how to handle it. So any help from you ladies that have more experience with older school aged children would be great.
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Re: Intro again, and question for those of you with school kids
I am not sure I have advice for these specific situations but I wanted to add she sounds like she is highly sensitive. My older son is and there is a book I've read that has helped me understand.
https://www.amazon.com/Highly-Sensitive-Child-Children-Overwhelms/dp/0767908724/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1321542983&sr=8-1
Oh thanks anything at this point would help! Thanks!
I always recommend this book in cases like yours. I've recommended it on here several times as well. Great read.
You need to find ways to help your DD deal with these things on her own.
Did she have any preschool? If she was in preschool, how did she act there?
GL!
It's hard because you're the Mom and you want everything school to be perfect and friends with everyone and no one is ever left out or their feelings hurt. The problem is, life happens and kids need to develop life coping skills on their own without Mom & Dad's interference which makes hearing about it all the more heart-stabbing...
My kiddo had a pretty routine time in daycare then switched to a school where none of her daycare friends were there and it's been a rocky road ever since (she's in 1st grade).. All I can say is just encourage her to open up to you about what's bugging her and work on ways together to cope with some of the situations she's dealing with (have her work them through in her mind's eye for the future). I know I've had talks with DD when she'd come home upset because someone tried to do the "Yo Momma's so..." (i.e. explaining character vs. reputation in a way she could understand at this age) stuff with her and she wasn't expecting it, but I said "Yo Momma's tougher than they could ever know, they can say whatever they want but you know what the truth is, and that's all you ever need to focus on!"... Never had an issue on that since because it validated what she was experiencing and reframed it in such a way that she didn't need to be concerned about it...
Thank you to all of you! I hoping I can try and teacher her to cope with all these things at school by herself for the most part with just support from Mommy. I am downloading that book on my nook tonight to read.
Again Thank you Thank you Thank you! Much appreciated it nice sometimes to see stuff from other peoples POV