[blparent] Your thoughts on this?

Wed Jan 30 04:58:51 UTC 2013

There's already a classmate at Sarah's preschool who has been mean to her 
verbally, and I'm not talking about just the usual little girl stuff.  The 
girl punched her in the stomach once.  You can bet I was on that like white 
on rice.  I'd already talked to the teacher way before that, so she knew I 
was aware of the issue and expected it to be monitored.  I told Sarah she 
needed to tell the teacher any time, and every time, the other girl ever put 
a hand on her.  I said it wasn't okay to hit back, and I've encouraged her 
to be nice to her little nemesis, but I've also made it clear that she 
doesn't have to stand around and get called stupid, or whatever the name of 
the day is.  I said walking away is an option, or asking the teacher to sit 
somewhere else.

Jo Elizabeth

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may 
kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at 
evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
-----Original Message----- 
From: Jeri Milton
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 7:31 PM
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Well, we had a chat with Dylan before he started school about how some kids
are rougher and may give him a hard time. Not telling him that this was
positively going to happen in his life, but we were also letting him know
not to put up with it if it does happen. In other words, stand up for
yourself. So, apparently he did just that the other day. An older student
came up to him and told him he had better stop playing with the other kids.
He was just being a punk is all. Dylan told the kid to get away from him. I
was proud of him. We've also told him not to put up with anyone pushing him,
hitting him etc. This whole bullying thing really scares the heck out of me.
I hope my kids never experience it. It will break my heart.

Jeri

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jo
Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 8:17 PM
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Yeah, you have a lot farther to fall when you're eighteen and fail, and you
don't know how to pick yourself up again.  The stakes aren't so high when
you're five.

Jo Elizabeth

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may
kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at
evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tammy
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 7:30 PM
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And While not having fun they learn that in a race with 4 preschoolers
everybody wins, and no child will ever receive an f on their report card
because that's not done anymore either.  I can see a whole lot of 18 to 20
year old young adults having difficulty with the concept of failure in a few
years because they've never learned how to fail and then have to try again
when they were little.  And this zero tolerance thing bugs me to!  So you
can't defend yourself or someone if they or you are getting beaten up now?
There's something wrong with the world we live in if we sterilize our
children and the environment our children live in!  Once they leave that
environment they'll have no social immune system, and they won't know how to
deal with that.

jmnho

Tammy

-----Original Message-----
From: Jo Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 7:57 PM
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I know.  Kids aren't allowed to have fun, I guess.  What are we supposed to
do, plunk them down in front of the TV, put a video game in their hands, and
hold them hostage?

Jo Elizabeth

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may
kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at
evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeri Milton
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 5:10 PM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] Your thoughts on this?

One of my son's favorite things to play, is army. His room is full of little
green army men, big GI Joe's, military ships, tanks etc. Along with other
toys of course. But I told him he probably shouldn't talk about his
automatic Nurf guns at school. Luckily, the district he is in hasn't gone
off the deep in with everything, at least not yet, but if he were to ever be
suspended or called into an evaluation because he was playing cops and
robbers, or cowboys and Indians at school on recess I'm afraid I would go
ballistic. We too have the bubble guns, nurf guns, water guns etc. The
lunatics of the world are screwing it up for everyone.

Jeri

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jo
Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 3:15 PM
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Oh goodness.  First of all, I think kindergartners are too young to see
films about the fact that MLK got shot.  If Gab said that now, she'd be
suspended and probably required to have a psych eval before she was allowed
back in school.  There was a news story just this week about a five-year-old
in Pennsylvania who got a ten-day suspension for talking to her friends at
the bus stop about shooting each other with a Hello Kitty gun for blowing
soap bubbles.  It was ridiculous, but the district said that under zero
tolerance, there was no choice.  She was said to have made a "terroristic
threat to harm others."  Under public pressure, the suspension was reduced
to two days, but a psych eval, which found nothing, was still performed.
Sometimes I really don't know what this world is coming to, when kids are
punished for having perfectly harmless social interactions with their
friends.  My own daughter, who will be five in amonth, is armed with one of
those bubble blowing guns.  God forbid she ever mentions it at school!

Jo Elizabeth

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may
kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at
evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
-----Original Message-----
From: Veronica Smith
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:29 PM
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I've never had that experience before.  Maybe it is something new.
The thing I did have to nip in the butt was in Kindergarten, Gab saw a film
about MLK and how he got shot and she came home saying, "mommy, if you don't
like someone, you can just shoot them!"
Wow, if she said that now adays, they'd suspend her.  But you know what, she
was 5 and didn't know about this evil world!
Jo Elizabeth, I bet thay taught them how to get out, I seriously don't think
they talked about jumping out a 2 story house, but just in case they did,
you should call her school and inquire.  You just never know.
They could of showed it from a single story and perhaps those kids that have
a multistory inacted that.
V

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jo
Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 10:36 PM
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Subject: [blparent] Your thoughts on this?

on this?
My four-year-old came home from school on Friday, and when she played with
her dollhouse, she imagined that the door was on fire while everybody was in
bed. Then she started having the Dora family characters jump out the second
and third story windows. I questioned her a bit, and she said that some
officers (I call them that because she couldn't tell me for sure if they
were firefighters or policemen, since they had no big red truck, but I'm
guessing they were firefighters) brought a dollhouse to school and talked
about what to do if there was a fire in the night. She swears they acted out
a scene where the mommy doll and the little girl doll jumped out the
windows. Now I remember fire safety from when I was a kid. Stop, drop, and
roll, get out of your house and have a meeting place for your family, call
911 and all, but I don't recall anything as drastic as an enactment by
firefighters with a real dollhouse and a roleplay of dolls jumping out of a
flaming home. Do any of you have experiences with this; is it typical for
young kids to be educated this way nowadays? Does this seem a little drastic
to all of you, or am I just being protective of my little girl's innocence?
I know she has to be ready for the world and its dangers, but she doesn't
need to have fears put in her mind before she hits the ripe old age of five,
either. It seems a bit much, coming on the heels of the school shooting
drills.

Jo Elizabeth

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may
kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at
evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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