"Hi!”
The other little girl just turned away.
Stella's happy, smiling expression melted away to be replaced by a mixture of confusion and sadness.
I don't want Stella to experience people being mean to each other. I don't want her to feel rejected. If those things must happen, and I know they do, I want to teach her how to deal with it and not loose her positive, happy outlook on life.
Trouble is, I'm not really sure how to do that.
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That horrible mean little girl! How dare she make Stella sad! I loved the photos of her playing at the park =)
Maybe I should send her another Package... Presents always help =)
Good luck my friend!
that is my number one fear with isabella. when little kids are mean to her i want to yell at them and tell her they are stupid and not to talk to them. not the best reaction so i just try to distract her.
I think Bonnie is correct there. Let her know that the other girl being sad has nothing to do with her. I am having trouble getting my very friendly twin boys not to think everyone they say hi to is their friend.
one can tell Bonnie raised a kid or 2...Karin
plus....learining to cope with "rejection" at such a young age will make the whole highschool expirience a lot easier to live through...
Karin
The more I hear about public school the more emotionally scaring it sounds.
terra, there's a good chance that public schools will give your kid the tools to deal with hardships and prevent scaring. it's ironic that megan introduced me to the word "traumatized" and she spent most of her childhood out of public schools.
and by "your" i didn't really mean "your" kids... just a generic "your" as in the plural of "ones"
Try not to take it too personally; neither of my parents were really social people, and as a young child I was incredibly awkward about meeting other kids, and I was pretty introverted anyway. I, too, might have just turned and walked away, and it wouldn't have had anything to do with Stella, just me being unsure of what to do and running.
We are more resilient as children than adults, it’s sad to say she has to learn sometime that the world is a mean place, She will figure out how to deal with it. She is your offspring so she must be amazingly smart.
Joe and I were just watching the DVD of Stella running, screaming away from stangers:) Sounds like she has relaxed alot. I agree with mom about telling Stela that the girl must be sad about something. In my mind I would be yelling at the girl for treating Stella that way though:)
Rebecca
Megan is easily traumatized- plus she didn't really get that way until highschool where she was in public school.
I remember her as a very friendly child who made friends easily.
She could also talk mom into buying her a new pair of shoes every time they went to the store.
hmmm. Sounds like someone we know ans love:)
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