..and another one bites the dust...

That moment when your celebrity crush says something racially insensitive on their facebook...

and then when you post a response and he comes back with more nonsense

and when you finally have to let go of the infatuation

I obviously has great taste in men...

dammit...

Is it too soon?

Sunny has been having bully issues as of late.

Which is actually a very strange concept for us. Well the fact that she is being bullied is a strange concept. Bullying however is not new to us. Actually it's a warning I usually have to tell her new teachers.

You see Sunny is very tall for her age...and too smart for her own good. and when she gets bored she will...i don't know if bully is the right word...she just takes over.

classes...

                   activities...

                                              projects...

                                                                           the world...

you name it...she'll conquer it if there is time willing.


I usually request that she's placed in a class of older children just to make sure she's neither bored or the tallest one. It's worked thus far. I mean there have been moments...there are always moments. usually at the end of the day when the teacher wants to "talk" and in the back of my mind I'm like

Like I'm no longer shocked by bumps and bruises. Usually they're from her tackling someone or jumping off of something when she's told not to or crashing into someone/something because she wants to see how long she can go until she HAS to stop...

She's always enjoyed playing with the boys. She's just as rough and tumble as they are - in her tutus and sparkly shoes and princess crowns. I honestly think we're invited to more boy parties than girl parties these days.

I actually showed up to pick her up from school one day while a mother was lecturing her son about how he needs to be "gentle" with Sunny because "she's a girl and you can't play with herlike you do with the boys." I actually cut in like "but if she's hurting you...you're allowed to get her off of you. self defense is admissible at this age..."

Well back to the recent issue.

There's a new kid at school. Samantha is older, taller, and more rough and tumble that Sunny. They also look pretty similar so they immediately were drawn to each other. Suddenly there was girl with similar eyes and similar hair and Sunny swore they were going to be best friends.

however, that is where the similarities stop.

Samantha is one of the poor few who's birthday falls directly after the kindergarten cut off. So while her previous classmates have all moved on, she switched schools and is stuck in pre-k for another year. So here she is at 5 years old stuck with new 4s. And to top that off she's coming from a montessori background so the structure of this program seems to be harder for her.


So she's already pushing the boundaries...before Sunny was riding right along with her...

until she realized that she was getting in trouble for it while Samantha was still getting the "well she's new..."

So after a few bad weeks we finally sat down and discussed saying "no thank you" and not doing things you know are wrong.

well Sammy...isn't taking no for an answer.

She's instead physically dragging Sunny into the problem...

so while I would love to be friends with this family...

shit it about to get real.

i thought i had a few more years before bullies...


at what age do you start teaching your kids its ok to use physical force on another person?

too soon?