Well I can't believe I am writing this.. but Ely got into his first (hopefully last) fight at school today. I received a phone call from his teacher and her first words were "Ely is okay, but.. (of course my heart skipped a beat) he got into his first fight at school today" She said it was recess time and he was playing behind the playhouse so they could not see what actually started the fight. By the time she ran over, the other kid was on top of Ely! It was a brawl, so who knows how it got started but apparently no tears were shed by Ely. The teachers are not allowed to say the name of the other child, all I know is it was a child from his class. I asked Ely about it but we are not quite that advanced in our level of communication for him to say who actually did it. All his said was it was a boy. Oh well, I guess that part really doesn't matter. At least he is okay and maybe learned something from this.
I was expecting the worst, so to me this isn't so bad
We all know Ely can be hard headed and strong willed so it wouldn't surprise me if he egged the other kid on today. Here is an expamle.. I always tell him not to scream in the house, that screaming is for outside. So the other day out of the blue he decided he wanted to scream, so he walked to the back door, opened it, stuck his head out and screamed at the top of his lungs, then shut it and went about his business. It's great that he followed instructions.. but.. Wow. God help us :)
I really don't think he was phased by today's incident, which I think is a good and bad thing!! This was taken right after I picked him up from school
LOL!! Ryan got in her first fight at that age too! A little girl in her class tried to take Ryan's tricycle so Ryan pushed her hands off and the kid bit Ryan! We figured out who it was eventually, even though the teacher couldn't tell us at first because we wanted to make sure the kid had all her shots--the bite was pretty deep! Ryan still has a little scar on her chest from it.
ReplyDeleteIt's one of those things....you hope it doesn't happen. Or if it does happen, you hope to be there so you know exactly what happened and why. However, we can't be everywhere - all the time.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure it was an instance that because of the lack of verbal skills at this age....it just escalated very fast. No worries...I'm sure the other parent is just a ruffled as you are. Hang in there!