[quote=CDMA ENG][quote=sdduuuude]I think you are all crazy assigning these adult-like personas and expectations of kindegarteners.
The kindegarteners aren’t racially profiling each other and kicking the boy in the crotch is not wise advice.
Just tell her to ignore the brats, go find the nice kids and play with them. It isn’t that difficult, really.
As for yourself, FLU – do the same with the parents. Don’t focus on all the Carmel Valley social posturing. Just find some nice people and conect with them. I guarantee you they are there.[/quote]
SD,
you are wrong on that one too. Plus I’ll go two years better than Kindergarden. The stories my sister tells me about the playground politics of her daughters and it is astounding. Boyfriend girlfriend politics (all very innocent at her age), profiling, social stimatizing… Its all very shocking. I told my sister to get the kids out of there and she said “Why? It’s that way everywhere now.”
I swear it made me want to have a vascetomy. Kids will be kids? Ha! Kids will be adults seemingly.
I don’t know why its different today. Maybe it wasn’t and we acted similiarly without knowing it.
Or maybe these things start earlier now becuase more kids go to day care and the learn bad behavior from one bad apple.
Or maybe I am just Mr. Negative since my schooling was a sham…
I know you have kids and your experience level is much higher than mine but I have worked on a school playground and I have plenty of friends and relatives that relate these stories…
And your no prize yourself my friend!
Ill be home soon and working from SD on a more regular basis. Get some Ba Ren?
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Note – I didn’t say there weren’t any nasty kids in schoold. I said, be sure to teach your kids how to latch on to the nice ones.
It’s a matter of knowing what you can and cannot change, it’s a matter of seeing the good not the bad, it’s a matter of giving your kid an optimistic view of that is to come and a matter of putting your destiny in your own kids’ hands rather than complaining about everyone else and their kids or teaching your own kids to complain about everyone else and their kids.
What I see and hear is exactly that – people complaining about other people’s kids, which in itself isn’t a very pleasant trait. It’s aaaaaaalways someone else’s kid and never the kid of the guy complaining.
My advice holds true – Just find some nice people and connect with them and teach your kids to do the same.
