As my child has officially been in school for over a year now.. I've had all sorts of conversations with her teachers. About timeouts (and who did what), about how she got hurt, about her listening skills (or lack thereof), about not wanting to eat her lunch, about what they think I need to do, about what I think they need to do, blah blah blah.
But, one conversation that, so far, I have not had though is the "your child bit someone" conversation. And I know at least one parent has had to hear it, because I heard the "biting" happen, heard the bitee (which I guess isn't a word?) screaming, and saw the biter get in trouble.
However.. I have now had the "your child was bitten" conversation. Which wasn't so much a conversation where I had to say much- mostly just listen to the facts and be shown the little teeth marks on Lily's hand. But, of course, Lily kind of got in trouble too.
She and her friend, A, were fighting over a bike that A was already riding. A didn't take it well that Lily wanted to ride it.. and bit her. So A got in trouble for "not using her words" (and biting).. and Lily got in semi-trouble for not waiting her turn. After I got the whole story from her teacher, she walked away and I gathered up Lily's things to leave.
Then I thought back to about 5 minutes before that, when I walked into the school. I passed behind A, her mom, and little brother as the same teacher was talking to her. I heard A's mom say of A's little brother.. "he just started doing that." But, of course, at the time, it meant nothing.. just the one bit of sentence I happen to catch.
When she turned around to realize another parent was passing behind her, I'm sure she was, at least a little bit, embarrassed to see it was the mother of the child that hers had bitten- and she was still in the middle of hearing the details about.
Had the situation been reversed, I know I would have wanted to find the nearest hole to crawl in and hide.
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