Sounds reasonable , but it depends on the value of the phone when it was damaged.
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Sounds reasonable , but it depends on the value of the phone when it was damaged.
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That thought had crossed my mind, however my daughter said this girl has a habit of breaking phones and has dropped it on the floor twice this week already. Plus who in their right mind gives a child and expensive phone (although it might be a castoff when her parents upgrade).
Had a good cry last night.
My daughter loves spiders and loves to pretend she's a super spider character that goes around saving people etc.
She was very upset and when I put her to bed she said no one wants to play super spiders with her at school and they think it's silly
Reminded me of my bad times at school.
What do you do apart from hugs and play the game with her at home.
School is so hard
My daughter loves spiders and loves to pretend she's a super spider character that goes around saving people etc.
She was very upset and when I put her to bed she said no one wants to play super spiders with her at school and they think it's silly
Reminded me of my bad times at school.
What do you do apart from hugs and play the game with her at home.
School is so hard
Not sure there is much you can do mate. Its all part of growing up unfortunately. Kids finding their own place in the group. Compromise. Vying for who decides whats cool etc. Its brutal and its horrible when you feel helpless to do anything.
I'm feeling bad at the moment when we discipline one of our boys. Hes 2.5 and has turned into a right little menace. Constantly pushing his luck. Being naughty to see what happens. You can see sometimes that he is genuinely hurt by his tellings off though and you feel awful. What do you do? You can't teach him that looking sad reduces or eliminates consequences for your actions but it feels like I am constantly telling him off. I don't want him to resent me but I don't want him to grow up a little **** like so many kids seem to be these days.
Our 4 year old son has been a bit like that lately, pushing the boundaries to see what happens, throwing things etc. If we tell him off he carries on and smiles at us, hard to know what to do. But he has just started pre-school in September and while seems happy also seems to find it challenging doing a 5 day week resulting in him being disruptive and us being called in to speak to the teachers about his behaviour.
Having the same with my very almost 3 year old. She’s learnt to shrug her shoulders, look at the floor and put on one of the saddest faces I’ve ever seen on a human being.
The mrs panders to it but I normally take the opposite approach and call the bluff. It always coincides with her little sister getting attention. She needs to learn that her sister needs some loving too and that she isn’t just an accessory to our family. Explaining that to someone so young is nigh on impossible though
we’ll break through it eventually
The mrs panders to it but I normally take the opposite approach and call the bluff. It always coincides with her little sister getting attention. She needs to learn that her sister needs some loving too and that she isn’t just an accessory to our family. Explaining that to someone so young is nigh on impossible though
we’ll break through it eventuallyI'm gonna be an arse, and say that's too generous.
It wasn't broken on purpose and it wouldn't have happened if she took more care.
She needs to learn from this lesson, let the parents deal with it how they want but it's not for you to make sure she looks after her phone.
I get the sentiment and it wasn't done on purpose but that's still no need for you to shell out
Ah my boy is very much like this. He's 8, proper into ww2 at the moment to the point where the only things he wants for Xmas is ww2 combat gear and helmet and is insistent he wants to do re-enactments (he knows he's to young but still wants to wear the gear to shows) and also wants to make his own ration packs etc lol no idea what for but hey.
Anyway he was upset the other day because he wanted to play army soldiers at school but none of his mates ever want to and was questioning whether his mates were true friends.
I felt proper bad for him gave him a hug and said everyone has different interests and not many people are into wars and soldiers and needs to keep that in mind, said the important thing is you all have fun.
However it was the same when he was into star wars and before that dinosaurs.
Also kills me when he doesn't get invited to birthday parties by kids we know he is good friends with yet the rest of his friends were invited. Or one time the whole football team was invited he plays for, except my boy, I found out everyone was told to keep it quiet and I was the team manager and my coach and assistant didn't tell me, found out as I decided to take him over the field and have a kick about and there they were, I just turned him around quickly and took him to the play area up the road instead for a bit before spoiling him for the day. Stuff me that was a hard one to accept myself let alone for him.
The mum messaged me later saying sorry he wasn't invited they had limited spaces, I was like you literally had no entertainment, was just a large picnic with the kids in a field running round with the ball using the club goals, there isn't no maximum number of kids allowed. She withdrew her kid from the team shortly after, there was always an awkwardness, but I always made sure I was fair and equal and never gave special treatment, held my head high knowing I was better than them.
I think it gets tougher as they get older.
Certainly brought back memories for me where my friends were never real friends and I got done over a lot by various "friends" over the years, I don't trust anyone these days and always keep a distance from people always 2nd guess motives, I only have 4 friends to this day, and 2 of them I wouldn't trust to be a ride or die. Really don't want him to be in the same situation as me, I'm really trying to make him turn out nothing like me and to have the complete opposite childhood I had.
Also school gate parents are the worst, those that can actually do the school run every day, so clicky and just generally awful, I hate doing school runs on Friday, though seeing his face when I pick him up makes it worth it, he's so happy when he sees me at the school gate waiting for him.
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We are leaving it as it seems to have sorted itself out as she had a phone yesterday. It sounds like she is a clumsy kid, but me and the Mrs still feel bad. Also find it quite ironic that the 3 of us put our phones on the sofa all the time since we bought it 6 months ago and have had no issues.
Explaining that to someone so young is nigh on impossible though
My 2.5 year old very much understands why he is being told off most of the time. You sit him down and explain why he has been told off and then finish with "do you understand". Little **** always says "no"
He bloody well does!
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I’m at 18 months with my little boy currently - you lot are not filling me with hope…
Incase it’s any gauge to set expectation - We had tantrums from roughly 22mo to 30mo, after which point she actively started trying to test what she could get away with in terms of being defiant. We’re about to hit 3 and a lot of that has gone away, it’s also coincided with her speech going through the roof (uses tenses, stringing together multiple full sentences, expressing if she’s sad/happy etc).
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My 2.5 year old very much understands why he is being told off most of the time. You sit him down and explain why he has been told off and then finish with "do you understand". Little **** always says "no"
He bloody well does!
Our 19 month olds favourite word is no, though I don't think he knows why he's saying it half the time
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He’s already starting to have minor tantrums sometimes when he’s told no, and staring us down whilst doing things he’s knows he shouldn’t be
Our 19 month olds favourite word is no, though I don't think he knows why he's saying it half the time
Ours nods enthusiastically and says yes a lot - think he’s got it from Miss Rachel…
Can anyone recommend a multivitamin? We’ve just ran out and thinking of switching to one that is a couple of drops in milk/liquids to save entering the battle of wills
What age? I noticed Colief do one when i was standing in the shop
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I, it's rough, also those parents..it makes me wonder about humanity at times.
I'm glad my girl still sticks too what she loves though, even if it doesn't make her friends etc, she very independent which hopefully will help her in later school years.
I absolutely hate school pick ups with a passion, but thankfully it's only Friday as she does after school for the rest of the week !
Trying to interact with other parents...hard.
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Totally mate, sounds almost same as my boy
Speaking of school, I often take the dog to a park that's next to one for lunch time walks, it absolutely breaks my heart when you see lone kids wandering into the park to sit or stand behind bushes... I presume it's to get away from everything. There's this one perfectly normal looking girl that sits on the furthest away swings everyday, even in the pouring rain.
You hope and pray that your own never feel like they need to do that.