POWIP Piece of Work In Progress

Barkin’ in the Boys Room

My nephew Grayson is 5 years old, as he is very proud to tell you. I'd post a pic but my sister in law saw a story about this woman who found a picture of her daughter that had been on her blog, posted on a kiddie porn site, so we don't put pics of the kids on the interwebs anymore. Just trust me when I tell you, he's a beautiful boy and will be a heartbreaker in a few years.

Grayson was in pre-K last year and started kindergarten this year and has had some, um, behavior problems. Teh Brother and his wife had discovered you have to be very specific with Grayson...you can't just tell him to be good. You have to say...don't bite..don't hit....if the teacher says don't stand on the desk....don't stand on the desk....you get the point. So teh Brother and his wife went over everything they could think of with Grayson this year ....since he was SENT HOME FROM PRE-K a total of 9 times last year for a variety of things....not the least of which was hitting a little boy in the lunch room for...to quote Grayson "getting in my face, I told him not to..but he wouldn't get outta my face."

Turns out...they didn't think of everything, because Grayson, who to his credit has been trying very hard this year to be good, got a time out yesterday and lost his green smiley face....for barking in the bathroom. He can't tell you why he was doing that, except it was fun and he can't tell you why, when the teacher asked him to stop, he chose not to except it was fun.

So I guess the moral of this story is......the one possibility that you don't think of is the one you will be dealing with.

Dede

Sometimes stuff rumbles around in my brain that's longer than 140 characters and, well......twitlonger just seems like cheating. :)