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I just got back from having coffee with my new uni friend Kim, once again Vincent's was the venue, I love how that place feels like i'm in the Blue Mountains, it is certainly one of my faves, though the new place that has opened in town really impressed me, and the convenience of that makes it even better.
Kim was really upset when she got there, her daughter who is 6 has been having some major bullying issues at school, particularly being excluded by the other kids.Well yesterday Kim accompanied her daughter on a school excursion and got to see exacctly where the bullying is coming from, it's the parents of these children :(. More than one of them told Kim to her face that they did not want their children playing with her daughter, and when Kim asked them why, the reasons were ridiculously petty, such as Kim's daughter aparantely removed a child's umbrella sleeve, or had some of another child's chips at lunch. It's just plain ridiculous, and from the sounds of things, these women ganged up on poor Kim yesterday.
It really got me thinking about what happened on the weekend and this and just how some people really don't realise how children are sponges and take in everything that we do and say. When it comes down to it, we as parents are responsible for our young children's behaviour, because they do what they see. I just wish more people would take the parenting role more seriously and realise that it's not just their own children they are damaging, but other people's too.
Kim was really upset when she got there, her daughter who is 6 has been having some major bullying issues at school, particularly being excluded by the other kids.Well yesterday Kim accompanied her daughter on a school excursion and got to see exacctly where the bullying is coming from, it's the parents of these children :(. More than one of them told Kim to her face that they did not want their children playing with her daughter, and when Kim asked them why, the reasons were ridiculously petty, such as Kim's daughter aparantely removed a child's umbrella sleeve, or had some of another child's chips at lunch. It's just plain ridiculous, and from the sounds of things, these women ganged up on poor Kim yesterday.
It really got me thinking about what happened on the weekend and this and just how some people really don't realise how children are sponges and take in everything that we do and say. When it comes down to it, we as parents are responsible for our young children's behaviour, because they do what they see. I just wish more people would take the parenting role more seriously and realise that it's not just their own children they are damaging, but other people's too.