PJ started preschool earlier this month. He's had a little trouble adjusting. We've had really good days, okay days and bad days. He loves school, and his teacher said he is advanced and knows more than expected as far as colors, shapes, numbers, etc.
Yesterday I got a call.
From the principal.
My little guy, the light of my life, my sweet, precious boy, did something.
BAD.
Bad enough that the principal had to call me.
He could have seriously hurt another child.
The child is okay. However, PJ couldn't give the principal and didn't give me a straight answer as to why he did it.
They were playing with legos. I'm assuming the other boy had legos PJ wanted and perhaps wasn't sharing, which caused PJ to do what he did.
NOT THAT WHAT HE DID IS OKAY.
Last week, he was getting in "trouble" for kissing and hugging other kids. Not trouble, but they are supposed to try and keep their hands to themselves.
This week he did something that I can't even understand.
He was obviously talked to extensively. We explained again and again how we don't hurt people, that if we are mad, you tell someone, don't hurt someone, no hitting, no this, no that.
I'm so worried. I'm worried about why he did it, what would make him think it was okay. It's probably an isolated incident. But a phone call from the principal when your kid has been in school less than a month makes you worry.
My husband thinks watching the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has caused him to act this way. So we're taking that away for awhile.
I just want him to be a good boy. To not be someone who the teachers don't want around, who is in trouble, who other kids don't like.
I'm probably overreacting. But I'm just so sad.
Let me tell you this (and you know I don't mince words)...we have had to take away SEVERAL television shows b/c of misbehavior. It's amazing how correlated their behavior is with inappropriate television shows. Come to find out that one of the recent additions was Y7 (which is youth seven...great, just another thing on which to educate myself) and we really have to monitor it. Sometimes he gets it back, his behavior goes back to bad, and we take it away again. Eventually he'll be able to handle it, but for now, I think there is a direct relationship. Hang in there! He's just trying to work all this shit out! Sometimes I wish I could hit someone when they have what I want...it's all a learning experience!
ReplyDeleteI had a time when my oldest was playing at a park, I was there talking with friends but sitting close and everything seemed to be fine. A little while later a father and her daughter came back to the park after leaving it to tell me that my son had looked up her skirt- I wanted to die! And when we enrolled him in school the first time he ended up pushing over a kid which in-turn knocked others kids over and then pretty much ran away-- we pulled him out of school and waited a year for him to mature and let me tell you he is amazing and doesn't hardly ever get into any trouble. So yes, work with him, talk with him, love him, do take away things that might be setting bad examples but know that there is hope!
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