Thursday – Mommy's Little Hellion

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"If this continues, we may have to ask you to stop bringing him here."

I stopped breathing when the director of my son's daycare said this to me.

"We're willing to work with you. What do you recommend we do?"

( Normal? Average? Typical? I'd kill for these things. )

Thursday – Mommy's Little Hellion (Update)

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Today's progress report said my son did not bite anyone, pinch anyone, throw things at anyone or call anyone an ugly name.

He did, however, shove a little girl and hit someone in the head with a toy rake on the playbround. To be fair, these things were not on the list of things I asked him not to do today. They will be on tomorrow's list, however.

On the part of the report where I asked for feedback about anything good he'd done, she reported that he did, at one point, share the toy rake.

I went through the script, telling him I was dissappointed that he hit someone with a toy and that he pushed someone, but that I was very proud that he didn't bite anyone, throw anything, pinch anyone, call anyone names, and that he shared.

"Was it hard trying to be a good little boy today?" I asked him.

"Yeah," he said, sounding exhausted, "it was very hard."

I'm terrified this is beginners luck. Nothing can be this simple, can it? Just making things clear and letting him know what I expect can't be possibly be the whole anwer.

If it is, then wow. Just wow.

I will be holding my breath for the next two weeks.