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| MrsRooster |
Posted - Apr 12 2010 : 07:07:02 AM
Help! My daughter is five and will be six in Oct.
She likes to push the envelope with her mouth. I know where it comes from as there is two mouthy kids in her class. I am trying to calmly tell her I don't except disrespect. The teacher has had kids pushed on her and her class has been very disrupted. One was actually thrown out of the school for his behavior. I know once she is home for the summer that alot of that will fade. It isn't bad words, just snotty and disrespectful.
She is starting not to like Nick Jr or Sprout. I found that she really likes the movie Kit Kittridge. What do you let you daughter watch?
She is very bright, like most onlies. She will be going to Kindergarden this fall. She is an October baby so she had to wait a year to go. I have decided to send her to a Christian School. I know this won't make all the problems disappear. But they are more strict about behavior. They want to test her for Kindergarden and First Grade. I don't think I want her put in First. Yes, she'll be 6 in Oct. But I don't want to push her. She may be very bright, but I don't want to stress her.
Tips for 5 going on 13???? LOL
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| Faransgirl |
Posted - Apr 12 2010 : 08:12:42 AM
Let them test her. My two oldest kids started school in Scotland. They don't have kindergarten there they just start first grade and they start at 5. But, they way the birthdays fall my middle one was barely 4 1/2 when she started first grade. She was in 2nd grade when we moved back here and just turned 5. The school here had a fit about her being in 2nd grade at 5 and insisted we put her in kindergarten. I threw a fit right back and we compromised on first grade where she was bored silly. We struggled with her until she was in High School. She was just socially ahead of the other kids. Then she went in AP classes and she totally turned around because in High School she could hang out with older kids. She is now in College and will graduate with her BA in May and is already 6 months into her Master's. I think we should not separate our kids by age but by ability. Both my older girls are far better adjusted than my youngest who started kindergarten here at 5 rather than starting first grade in Scotland at 4 1/2 and 5. Ability is more important than age and if she is picking up bad behaviour at school then it sounds like boredom, she needs to be interested and stretched rather than having time to pick up other kids bad habits.
Farmgirl Sister 572
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| gramadinah |
Posted - Apr 12 2010 : 07:32:04 AM
I say let them test her. I think some of the behavior is boardom.
Diana
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