I made my daughter write my 9 year old an apology letter this morning. I have just come back from school drops offs and re-read it. I officially have delinquent children.
You would be forgiven for thinking that I am referring to a three year old child and being surprised that a toddler could write so well:-
“Sorry for biting you!!! I feel awful – hope it’s not a huge bruise. See ya later!!!”.
How bad is that??? (sorry, caught excessive exclamation mark bug from daughter hopefully temporarily). SHE’S 14!!! She’s not allowed to bite people. He’s actually got a set of teeth mark on his arm. He sat in the bath crying last night and admiring his bite mark and said “imagine if she still had her braces on – she’d have bitten a lump of flesh out” and said, “well at least it’s a perfect set of teeth marks – not like if I’d bitten you – would have been all wonky” – which at least stopped him from crying for a minute. They got into a fight. It was all about her phone. Frankly I think she would kill for that phone. It’s not at all healthy having such an obsession with a phone (am trying not to imagine biting any of my children if they tried to take my new iphone away from me).
Time to confiscate phone….
Brighton Mum-Teenage Angst
March 4, 2010Confiscating the phone..now that sounds like a plan! I did that to TD once, it worked! Unfortunately most of them are obsessed with them now. Oh, your poor little son 🙁
Jon Storey
March 4, 2010You sound surprised to discover that you have a delinquent child. In my short experience, all children are congenitally delinquent….
…….. but still eminently loveable!
Phone confiscation seems a bit ‘below the belt’, go for it!
Heather
March 4, 2010she bit him! oh boy! but then if someone took my phone from me…umm, she may have a point!
Expat Mum
March 4, 2010Biting! You can get kicked out of nursery school for that!
Family Affairs
March 4, 2010I know. Really bad x