Awkward Kids
Remember ‘Class Monitors’?
Well, these days, they’re called ‘VIPs’ – or at least they are in K’s school. Each morning, Miss chooses the VIP for the day and this priviliged person gets a special chair and gets to help Miss. And… oh yes…they get to wear a badge/sticker.
K has kept most of his VIP stickers from last year so I gather that, in the world of a 6 year old, these things have some kudos.
Today, K was chosen as the VIP. The first time he’s been chosen by his new teacher. Yay!
So why did the little ?$*^#$ tell his teacher that he “wasn’t allowed to wear badges
“? That’s news to us. Apart from going through the pretty-standard-for-this-age phase of telling whopping fibs for no reason, he seems to be taking some sort of perverse pleasure, lately, in deliberately denying himself things that he wants and/or likes. And I have no idea why.
I intend to completely ignore this behaviour as much as possible but it completely bewilders me. Even as an experimental flexing of some sort of personal power/control muscle, it’s a bit drastic at times.
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