My daughter is in first grade. She asked to play with a friend from her class this morning, so I called the girls mom to get them together.
Wow. Boy did I get an earful. About normal first grade social stuff. (Who plays with who at recess, who sits with who at lunch...) The kind of stuff that I leave to my kids. (Unless there's some major bullying involved...)
She knew way too much about very specific first grade conversations.
Apparently my daughter sat with one of her daughter's friends at lunch and excluded her daughter. Now she's "not sure" if her daughter wants to be with my child.
Aren't there two sides to every story?
Shouldn't we let the kids work out their petty seating arrangements in the lunch room?
I was shocked.
My kids get dissed at school sometimes, (at least in their own minds) I don't crucify the other kids, I teach them to work it out amongst themselves. Shit happens...move on!!!
If I start adding this kind of minutia to my list of worries, I'd go nuts!! Unless my child is terrorizing someone else or being terrorized, I'm letting it go.
Any thoughts?