I Am Sorry

Last Friday, when I went to pick Baby G up from school, the teachers told me an upseting piece of news. It seemed that Baby G pushed one of the K2 student and caused him to have a blue&black bruise on his forehead. I was pretty upset and questioned him on the reason for that terrible behaviour. He didn't want to tell me why but he gave me a very sad look. I brought him home and throughout the entire way back, I did not speak to him. He knew he was in trouble already and kept asking me not to be angry. But I ignored him, instead just said to him "Why did you do that?".

When we reached home, while I was preparing the rice, my mind was in a whirl. How should I handle this? In the end, I decided not to blow my top and to try to reason with him. I told him that I was very disappointed with what he has done and I wanted to know the reason. I kept repeating this statement a few times, and finally he seemed to get the message. He told me he didn't like the way the boy was fiddling with his hands and he also told me that the boy was "naughty in class". He also promised he won't do such things again (I hope he doesn't forget this promise).

Throughout dinner, I was rather quiet and Baby G ate his dinner without much fuss; it was quite a sombre moment. Normally, both of us would be talking non-stop but this time, I only spoke to him when necessary.

After dinner, I told him that he needed to apologise to his friend and I decided to get him to make a 'I am sorry' card and pass it to him on Monday.

I helped Baby G out with the card by writing the word 'SORRY' with dotted lines so that he could trace it out. As for the apple and the balloon, Baby G used a stencil to draw it out & colour it himself. After doing this, I asked if he knows why he's doing this and he told me "because I pushed yyyy.... (names will be withheld to protect minors)". I also asked him to repeat his promise.

Hopefully, Baby G will remember his promise... else at the next parent-teacher meeting, I'll be getting a lot of 'feedback' from the teachers.

San

Hair Cut

Finally, on 6th Mar 2010, Baby G got his first professional haircut (excluding the 1st month shave). Baby G has never wanted to go to the barber nor the hair salon to cut his hair cause of the noise made by the shaver. Today, I don't know why, but I actually asked Baby G if he wanted to cut his hair at 'Mr Barber'. I expected the usual 'no' but got a pleasant surprise when he actually said 'yes, ok'. So after his Phonics class, we popped over to the hair salon.

He happily walked into the salon and sat on the chair, eating his raisins while waiting. During the wait, I kept preparing him and said that we'll only ask the lady to use the scissors to cut and will not use the shaver.

Soon it was our turn, he was fine until he sat on the chair and the lady tried to put the sheet around him. Then he started to panic and I could see the regret on his face. He wanted to leave the chair. We struggled a little before we removed the sheet from his neck and placed it up til his chest. I asssured him that I'll be with him the whole time and held his hands tightly. Lucky the lady was pretty fast, with about less than 15 snips, it was over. But we were all covered with his hair and it started to itch and made him unhappy.

Although he didn't cry, he looked mighty unhappy. He sulked all the way home.

I think we'll not be visiting the hair salon anytime soon and looks like I may have to continue to be his personal hairdresser.

San