November 17, 2012
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Chewlee’s Week
TALES FROM THE BRAT FARM
Well, Chewlee’s week ended on a sour note. It’s not bad enough that she was actually accused of sexual harrassment due to her kissing and hugging this one little boy but she also got all her cards pulled yesterday because HE made her mad. He kept talking to her and calling her names so she decided she was going to kiss him because someone else had tried to kiss him once and he reacted badly enough that it caught her attention. Chewlee told me that she did it because he HATED it and she didn’t like him. I gather that someone somewhere decided that even five year olds who have no idea what the hell sex is and think all boys are annoying, are actually capable of sexual harrassment. I gather there is no age limitation on that law and some asshole has stressed that it applies even to kids in diapers. What the hell has happened to common sense??????
No happy face once again today but….the Princess talked to her teacher (let’s call her Ms. Ogre) this afternoon to check and found out that pretty much the whole class wasn’t very good due to having a lot of extra kids today. It was a very disorganized day for all of them. I think the other kindergarten teacher was out sick so they ended up having to put the two classes together.
Chewlee then got into trouble with the Beast because she was mean to Baron. He’s never hurt her but he’s just the size to be able to push her around and annoy her when all he wants to do is lick her or play with her. But his 110 lbs against her 43 lbs. is just not a good match. She gets upset because he will block her way or he licks her face (and she hates that). I really don’t blame her on that one. His tongue is darn near 1/3 the size of her face.
But her hitting him on the face with a pencil she was pretending was a wand was just not cool. Especially because she gets too close to his eyes.Chewlee looked at me at one point today and said in such a sad tone of voice, *It looks like I don’t get my Leap Pad back yet.* I told her that she knew what she had to do to get it back and there’s always next week. All she has to do is really try hard to be good. She was sitting in my lap, nice and comfy, and said, *But that’s only if no one tries to get me in trouble.* When I asked her how someone else could get her in trouble, she told me that they would call her names and it made her mad. I told her the trick was to pretend she didn’t hear them. She said they would just say it louder. That’s when I laughed and told her, *That’s when you can really make THEM mad. If you keep pretending you didn’t hear them, they’ll get mad and then they will probably talk louder and the teacher will know that THEY are the problem and THEY will get in trouble. Not you.
I could see her imagining that in her mind. She loves to pretend so my telling her to pretend she doesn’t hear them would appeal to her. I hope it works. I’m crossing my fingers on that one.
The Princess says she is going to give up another one of her working days so that she is with Chewlee more than she is now. We were talking about her choices (get a day job, change her classes to night ones and it adds another year maybe more to her time to graduate). If she can manage her bills without taking out a student loan, that would be ideal but she is going to have to sit down and figure things out. She just wants to be able to be with Chewlee, help her with her homework and work on teaching her to listen AND to be quiet. She said right now, we spend more time with Chewlee than she does. I told her that Chewlee really misses being with her and will tell me that at times. I tell Chewlee that Mommy has to pay bills and be able to buy her things, too, but will be able to spend a lot of time with her once she becomes a teacher. Chewlee then says, *But it’s taking SOOOOO long!* Of course, she says the same thing if she has to wait two days for anything.
If you ask Chewlee how old she is, she will tell you she is 6. I keep telling her, *No you are not. You are 5-1/2 if you want to be closer to 6 but you are NOT 6 yet.* She will clasp her arms tightly around herself and, in a mean face, say, *But I WANT to be 6 and it’s taking TOO LONG!* Close enough to her usual *soooo long* refrain. I really think she’s more interested in her 6th birthday party than she is just being 6.
Chewlee was tired when she got here after school. You can always tell with her because she gets a bit whiny and cranky about some things. I just make sure she gets to sit in my recliner because she will lay down while she’s watching TV and she will get very quiet for her. I swear she has inherited the hyperkinetic gene from the Beast’s family. Her biological grandmother was hyperkinetic at birth and it took me six months to get her pediatrician to finally agree with me. I managed without medicating her but I often wonder if perhaps I should have. Hindsight isn’t always 20/20 but I know my only grandson was afflicted that way and his mother ended up stopping the medication because of both his complaints and it’s affects. Most medications for kids with what they now call ADD (attention deficit disorder) really don’t treat the problem. They often medicate the kids into a sleepwalking mode to make it easier for the parents to survive but doesn’t do a damn bit of good for the kids. They are usually exceptionally bright kids but the medications make them zombies who neither learn nor respond so you wouldn’t know it from their ability to react.
Well, time to get this posted. I’m tired out tonight. And I haven’t even had one drink….yet. That can change in a heart beat.
Have fun!
