hillview
11-02-2009, 09:10 PM
Ha I am full of ?s today. We went to a bday party this weekend. DS was upset that he had a yellow balloon, not a blue one. I talked with him about it and he seemed ok. He was sitting near 2 other boys. After a while he got very upset/cried and I took him out of the party room. We talked and he got back to being ok (cake was about to happen!). Then I saw the 2 boys picking on a 2 year old calling her names and my DS was getting involved. I went over and said name calling was NOT ok and (mostly to DS but loud enough for the other 2 to hear) that it needed to stop NOW. I was PISSED. Then I saw the other 2 boys talk to DS about his balloon (AH HA). Ok they were telling him how much better their blue balloons were etc and I could SEE he was getting upset. I went over and told DS they were being mean and that he could tell them they were not being nice. I told him they were TRYING to get him upset and he had this BIG AHA moment. And I told him he could tell them he loved yellow and they'd top bothering him OR he could tell them that they weren't being very nice.
I was pretty angry/upset. DS is 4 and isn't around a lot of this sort of thing -- at school (Montessori) am sure he gets some of it but not a ton as they run a tight ship.
What could I have done differently. How do you explain to DC this sort of behavior? I HATE it. Really HATE it.
Sorry so long :)
TIA!
/hillary
I was pretty angry/upset. DS is 4 and isn't around a lot of this sort of thing -- at school (Montessori) am sure he gets some of it but not a ton as they run a tight ship.
What could I have done differently. How do you explain to DC this sort of behavior? I HATE it. Really HATE it.
Sorry so long :)
TIA!
/hillary