Wow-I am kind of shocked here! WWYD? 
So my 5yo dd started kindy this year, and is so excited! She has the same teacher that her older brother had, which is great because the teacher is nice, we got along well with her when he was in her class, no problems at all etc...
On Abby's first day of school, of course she came home, and I was all on her about her day, what she did, if she had fun etc...She said "I did get in trouble though mommy." I said "You did!? What happened?" and she said "I don't want to tell you." So I said "Well if you don't want to tell mommy, then I will have to call and talk to mrs. W, because mommy really needs to know these things, so we can work on them, okay?" So she said okay, and opened up to me.
She said "I was child of the day, and I got my own special chair for the whole day! Mrs. W told me that nobody else could sit in the chair, only me today. But after I sat in the chair most of the day, I let someone else sit there because I wanted to share my seat, so Mrs. W took my child of the day tag away and said I was not child of the day anymore AND she put my sticker on red instead of green, since I didn't listen to her." (I guess since she had been told NOT to let anyone else sit in the chair and she did anyhow.)
I, personally think BRAVO to my baby for sharing. If that is the ONLY kind of trouble she is going to get into at school, is for sharing, than that is fine by me. Now granted, I told her she does need to listen to what her teacher says, but c'mon, please tell me I am not the only one who thinks this is just a little obserd? Could she not have just kind of reinforced the issue with her, beings that it WAS the first day of kindy for all of these kids, maybe they didn't remember the rules yet? I think the teacher should have said something like "Abby, Mrs. W told you not to let anyone else sit in the chair, remember? Please don't do that again, now you need to sit in it, okay?" and let her have the COTD still, and not change her behavior sticker kwim? Ugh.
So do I drop it or email the teacher to make sure my 5 yo was not exaggerating the truth or what? Tia!
So my 5yo dd started kindy this year, and is so excited! She has the same teacher that her older brother had, which is great because the teacher is nice, we got along well with her when he was in her class, no problems at all etc...
On Abby's first day of school, of course she came home, and I was all on her about her day, what she did, if she had fun etc...She said "I did get in trouble though mommy." I said "You did!? What happened?" and she said "I don't want to tell you." So I said "Well if you don't want to tell mommy, then I will have to call and talk to mrs. W, because mommy really needs to know these things, so we can work on them, okay?" So she said okay, and opened up to me.
She said "I was child of the day, and I got my own special chair for the whole day! Mrs. W told me that nobody else could sit in the chair, only me today. But after I sat in the chair most of the day, I let someone else sit there because I wanted to share my seat, so Mrs. W took my child of the day tag away and said I was not child of the day anymore AND she put my sticker on red instead of green, since I didn't listen to her." (I guess since she had been told NOT to let anyone else sit in the chair and she did anyhow.)
I, personally think BRAVO to my baby for sharing. If that is the ONLY kind of trouble she is going to get into at school, is for sharing, than that is fine by me. Now granted, I told her she does need to listen to what her teacher says, but c'mon, please tell me I am not the only one who thinks this is just a little obserd? Could she not have just kind of reinforced the issue with her, beings that it WAS the first day of kindy for all of these kids, maybe they didn't remember the rules yet? I think the teacher should have said something like "Abby, Mrs. W told you not to let anyone else sit in the chair, remember? Please don't do that again, now you need to sit in it, okay?" and let her have the COTD still, and not change her behavior sticker kwim? Ugh.
So do I drop it or email the teacher to make sure my 5 yo was not exaggerating the truth or what? Tia!
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