Busted!
Naturally, after basking in the glow of Hank's positive parent/teacher conference, and feeling smug about my parenting skills in general (because all of this good behavior just had to be the result of my excellent mom skills), Hank had a very bad day at preschool. Apparently, he was pretending to shoot another classmate. The good news is that he cried when he got into trouble, so at least he doesn't enjoy it. Bad news is, he's still pretending to "shoot" everything (and everyone) at home. Doesn't matter that we have no guns (real or fake) in the house, little boys can pretend anything is a gun.
And of course, just as we get Georgie's hitting problem under control, he develops a new bad habit: pinching people. He pinched my face today and left a mark. Ouch!
Ahhh, but the good behavior was nice while it lasted!
2 comments:
Don't beat yourself up.
Today while driving, there was a little boy standing next to his mom's car and pointed his imaginary gun at me and shot several times.
His mom had that look like, "Yeah, I know..." and I just had to laugh. All boys do this - even the really nice ones.
The day before Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday, I read a book to my class about MLK Jr. They enjoyed the book very much. Obviously you know how the story ended, but thankfully I found a nice book that did not have ANY pictures of how he died. Actually, it didn't even say HOW he was killed.
Same day, 20 minutes later, one of my students drew a picture of one man pointing a gun at another man (labeled Martin Luther King, Jr.), and there was a bullet flying through the air toward MLK Jr.'s head.
We then had to have a talk about drawing pictures of weapons at school. And that "we should draw nice pictures to remember Martin Luther King, Jr."
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