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(please read part on first to understand what I'm trying to tackle here)
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It's interesting, he'll be 6 in two weeks. He just finished his first year of kindergarten. We haven't seen name calling this year at all from him.
I think the only time he called anyone a name was he time where he called Carrie (our 3 year old) an idiot...she called Sampson, our dog, girl. This was fall 08, shortly after kdg started.
"He's a boy, you idiot!" and he knew right away what he did. He went to his room for some
time alone, and that was the last we had to deal with that with him.
And that's saying a lot considering he's going to a metro Nashville public school where all kinds of cultures and languages and lack of "mouth filters" are introduced.
Perhaps it's just an age thing at preschool?
I say this b/c my daughter has been at preschool this year and we are in this territory again.
"Sillyhead"
Not a bad name...but she started calling everyone "sillyhead" trying to be funny and fun.
And it got old. Fast.
What Jeff (her dad) did is tell her she can call him "Papa Bear" since we call her "Care Bear."
And explained that was different from name calling.
For a while I thought, Carrie can be permitted to call only me, her mother, "sillyhead." Maybe that would allow her to have some fun and get it out of her system. That was a few months ago. Since then we have only heard "sillyhead" a few times. It seems to have died away.
With two bachelors with a little mouth on them living near us, I figured they'd pick up some words. Haven't heard anything worse than "stupid" or something near to that. And oddly enough, the word "stupid" was something Walter learned when a kid said it at church!
I told Carrie some time this spring when I heard her say "stupid" - not to use that "not nice word." She is a rebel and wanted to see what would happen. I warned her I'd wash her mouth out with soap.
So she said it again.
I put a teeny tiny dab of liquid hand soap on her tongue and it took her a while to wash that taste out. Walter was yelling and crying in the hallway b/c he thought I was hurting her b/c soap was bad to eat. I explained later what little drop I put on her tongue.
But, since that event, we haven't heard any "not nice" words since from either kid.
But what I have also done, is pause a movie when watching at home (we never go to the theater) - (and I will add that just because it's a "G" rated kids movie doesn't mean it's educational and "nice")...
but I'll pause the movie and point out that the character was not being nice.
But whatever we've done or not done...the name calling has slowed down to almost ceasing.
As far as the name calling, maybe she'll pick it back up again when near her classmates when school starts up again in the fall.
Who knows. We'll tackle that when we get to it.
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