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Because I am an idiot
Nov. 25th, 2008 03:32 pmI wrote up a post last night that was intended to be friendslocked and filtered, then posted it publicly. I think it was up for about fifteen minutes in the middle of the night...which was long enough for it to go out in some people's RSS readers.
So if you got it, and you read it, don't feel too guilty, and it wasn't LJ's fault.
The gist of the post: Molly (who is currently in second grade) has taken to hitting her classmates. Regularly. Any time they piss her off. (For instance, by accusing her of touching the classroom gerbil and saying she should go wash her hands -- that was the problem yesterday.) The school has been handling this by removing her from the irritating person and sending her somewhere quiet to calm down, which alas, may have functioned as a really excellent positive reinforcement for the behavior they wanted to see less of. To make it even better, the quiet place is often the science classroom, and she LOVES getting to sit in on the 4th and 5th grade science classes -- she finds them much more interesting than her own. So, yeah. She went from being one of the good kids who caused no problems, to one of the kids whose mother is on the vice principal's speed-dial, over the course of two and a half months.
It's become a major problem -- the first Really Big Issue we've had with Molly, honestly -- and we're struggling with how to deal with it.
If you were once a second grader who hit your classmates, please feel free to tell me all about how you overcame or outgrew your aggression issues and are now a productive member of society.
So if you got it, and you read it, don't feel too guilty, and it wasn't LJ's fault.
The gist of the post: Molly (who is currently in second grade) has taken to hitting her classmates. Regularly. Any time they piss her off. (For instance, by accusing her of touching the classroom gerbil and saying she should go wash her hands -- that was the problem yesterday.) The school has been handling this by removing her from the irritating person and sending her somewhere quiet to calm down, which alas, may have functioned as a really excellent positive reinforcement for the behavior they wanted to see less of. To make it even better, the quiet place is often the science classroom, and she LOVES getting to sit in on the 4th and 5th grade science classes -- she finds them much more interesting than her own. So, yeah. She went from being one of the good kids who caused no problems, to one of the kids whose mother is on the vice principal's speed-dial, over the course of two and a half months.
It's become a major problem -- the first Really Big Issue we've had with Molly, honestly -- and we're struggling with how to deal with it.
If you were once a second grader who hit your classmates, please feel free to tell me all about how you overcame or outgrew your aggression issues and are now a productive member of society.
