One of those boys

Parenting is a real tough job. We all know it but sometimes you just think it is okay. That you aren’t stuffing it up too much.

Then you go to pick your Grade R boy up from school. He runs out to greet you and his teacher asks him to go back inside and steps aside so that she can have a word with you. Not one of those: “your boy is so sweet” talks either.

Apparently he and three of his friends have been fighting. A lot. So much so that she took the boys to Mr. Piet White. Ah, you know that teacher. That male teacher that all the boys are scared off. Yes, him. He made them go into his little room where they have a skeleton (not a real one obviously). This however didn’t scare them enough to behave. There was more fighting and an incident where there were some peeking underneath the toilet door (in the boys’ bathroom)

She told me that she spoke real sternly to them and wanted to talk to me about it, before Quintus got upset at home. He can be real sensitive when he was punished.

Well apparently not sensitive enough. I was busy speaking to him in the car about it when he ignored me and spoke to Jason. I decided to leave it there and wait till we got home from work.

I told him that he is no longer to play with those friends. That if he and his friends wants to behave like that, I will not tolerate it. That never again do I want to hear about that kind of behaviour. I took away the Playstation. For as long as it takes for him to start behaving as I expect him to. I got him to buy a chocolate for his teacher for when he apologizes tomorrow.

When I told him that I don’t want him to be friends with those two boys anymore, he started crying. Real sad tears. He told me that they are his only friends and if he can no longer play with them, he only has Michael (that friend of his from preschool, who is now in a different primary school). I told him to make other friends and he told me that he doesn’t know how. That is true.

How do I get him to behave. Are these little boys really so bad, or just being “boy” naughty. Oh this parenting stuff is hard. For now though, I told him not to play with those boys until they behave. I’ll keep in contact with his teacher to confirm that he is behaving. I will ask her about the behaviour of those boys. I’m sure she spoke to their parents too and hopefully they will change their behaviour as well.

I can’t believe that he is behaving this way. It saddens me. It’s probably not that bad and something many boys do. I just don’t want HIM to.

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