I made my daughter write my 9 year old an apology letter this morning. I have just come back from school drops offs and re-read it. I officially have delinquent children.
You would be forgiven for thinking that I am referring to a three year old child and being surprised that a toddler could write so well:-
“Sorry for biting you!!! I feel awful – hope it’s not a huge bruise. See ya later!!!”.
How bad is that??? (sorry, caught excessive exclamation mark bug from daughter hopefully temporarily). SHE’S 14!!! She’s not allowed to bite people. He’s actually got a set of teeth mark on his arm. He sat in the bath crying last night and admiring his bite mark and said “imagine if she still had her braces on – she’d have bitten a lump of flesh out” and said, “well at least it’s a perfect set of teeth marks – not like if I’d bitten you – would have been all wonky” – which at least stopped him from crying for a minute. They got into a fight. It was all about her phone. Frankly I think she would kill for that phone. It’s not at all healthy having such an obsession with a phone (am trying not to imagine biting any of my children if they tried to take my new iphone away from me).
Time to confiscate phone….
March 4th, 2010 at 12:04 pm
Confiscating the phone..now that sounds like a plan! I did that to TD once, it worked! Unfortunately most of them are obsessed with them now. Oh, your poor little son
March 4th, 2010 at 1:08 pm
You sound surprised to discover that you have a delinquent child. In my short experience, all children are congenitally delinquent….
…….. but still eminently loveable!
Phone confiscation seems a bit ‘below the belt’, go for it!
March 4th, 2010 at 3:05 pm
she bit him! oh boy! but then if someone took my phone from me…umm, she may have a point!
March 4th, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Biting! You can get kicked out of nursery school for that!
March 4th, 2010 at 3:43 pm
I know. Really bad x