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Getting at the truth with children is not an exact science
I was called to school because my second grade daughter had bitten another child. The boy was not hurt very badly--he had on fairly new jeans, which everyone knows are the next thing to armor. Anyway, the conversation at school with the teacher listening went like this:
Gryphon: "Did you bite Ted?" Daughter: "Yes." G: "You understand it's not acceptable to bite other people." D: "Yes." G: "Did you mean to bite Ted?" D: "Yes." G: "It wasn't an accident." D: "No."
G: "Tell me why you bit Ted." D: "Well, see, I was the wolf and wolves bite people." G: "OK, but you know you aren't really a wolf?" D: "Yes." G: "That means that even when you're pretending to be a wolf, you don't bite." D <just short of tears>: "K." G: "Did you tell Ted that you were sorry?" D: "Yes."
It was hard to find a further punishment. I fully sympathized with my daughter, as I had done something very similar at the same age. Besides, Ted was a hell-bound babe, and a whiner with it. I think he provoked every single child in the class into physical confrontation that year. It's a wonder they all didn't gang up on him and really do him some damage.
posted by
GRYPHON
on August 30, 2003 at 2:50 PM
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Good observation Bunny
Yes you do have to be a little creative to extract news from children
posted by
beachbelle
on August 30, 2003 at 1:20 PM
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