Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Chat

Join the discussion and chat with other Mumsnetters about everyday life, relationships and parenting.

Original poster

4 year old told nursery that I bite him

13 replies

PotatoTomatoBurrito · 22/02/2021 13:56

And make him cry all the time. Obviously not true. We play a game were I'm
a lion chasing him round the house and when I catch him I pretend to eat him all up. He normally loves it but the last time we played it he cried. I feel awful and explained this all to nursery. I'm just worried about what nursery will now think of us and more worried about DS obviously still being upset by the game. Sad

OP posts:
JJBlinks · 22/02/2021 14:03

I would imagine that nursery staff are used to hearing lots of stories at that age and take most with a pinch of salt. You have explained and they probably think you are a great fun parent - children can get upset at games all the time with little reason! I have 3 children and dread to think what they have said over the years!!

WaltzingTilda · 22/02/2021 14:06

As long as there are no bite marks on him, it should be okay Smile

Figmentofimagination · 22/02/2021 14:16

You will be ok. You won't be the first or last parent who will get caught out by things like this. You have a valid and fun explanation which shows you care about him and play games with him.

Read this recent thread from classics -

What my DD told nursery - make me feel better please www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/4096147-What-my-DD-told-nursery-make-me-feel-better-please

Interested in this thread?

Then you might like threads about these subjects:

4 year olds Behaviour & development Childcare & nursery Families
HappyasLaura · 22/02/2021 14:31

If it makes you feel better, a few years back my child had a scratch on their arm. They caught their arm on the toilet roll holder that morning. It was very minor indeed. Child mentioned it on the way to the nursery which was the first my husband had heard of it, by the way, so he told child to ask their key worker to put a plaster on it when they went in. Child loves plasters, not necessary because they needed it.
At the end of the day my husband was asked to step into the office of the nursery. With the assistant manager as a witness.
Transpires child told nursery that husband and I had a huge fight that morning, husband hit me and I in turn hit child.
Didn’t happen. Husband was beyond mortified. When I spoke to the nursery a few weeks later, as got on well with the key worker, she said that she never immediately it didn’t happen but they had to follow a process. They had found it amusing. She and I had a good laugh especially because I was in Geneva on business when this fight supposedly happened.
Point being, they hear this type of thing all the time. If I were you I might make a note of it somewhere and then forget about it.

SeaToSki · 22/02/2021 14:31

My children's nursery had a statement in their introduction to new parents. If you promise not to believe everything your children tell you about us, we will promise to not believe everything they tell us about you.

Clearly a-lot of children tell potentially embarrassing stories that are just muddles of something completely different that actually happened

BettysButtons · 22/02/2021 14:36

There was a thread on here where primary teachers were sharing some of the outrageous tall-tales/fibs children told them. I wish I knew what the thread title was, it would put your mind at ease!

Artichokepiglet · 22/02/2021 14:54

When my eldest was a toddler he once shouted ‘Mama hit that girl with her car!’ in a supermarket. It was totally random and (as far as I’m aware) I’ve never run anyone over.

Another time in the same supermarket he shouted ‘Mama did a poo in the shop’.

HandyBendySandy · 22/02/2021 14:59

My niece once told nursery, "My mummy can't cope"...presumably what DSis had bellowed that morning amidst the chaos.

Also, when asked on another occasion how she got a bruise on her face (fell onto something, I forget what), she yelled "DADDY DID IT".

harknesswitch · 22/02/2021 15:06

Nursery hear all sorts, my dd told them I didn't feed her breakfast and only gave her bread to eat at tea time Confused

savanahnana · 22/02/2021 15:07

I wouldn't worry, early years settings must hear a lot of things along those lines I should imagine!

I felt mortified last summer, took DS 5 to the park to meet his school friends, had DD 3 with me too. When it was time to leave she started running off to avoid going home. I playfully ran after her and she started crying and said 'don't hit me mummy' in front of a load of school mum's! I absolutely do not know what made her come out with it but I was mortified and worried for ages that they'd think I've actually hit her Sad

SionnachRua · 22/02/2021 15:10

If you promise not to believe everything your children tell you about us, we will promise to not believe everything they tell us about you.

Used to say this all the time when I taught Junior Infants (Reception to many of you). You have to remember that they're only little and their perception of the world is very different!

Once had a child go home and say that I said there was no Santa. Cue a very upset mummy raging at the principal, of course. I'd said nothing of the sort, turned out to be the child next to him!

Morred · 22/02/2021 15:54

If he also told them that you're a lion, that might help Wink

Slumberdoon · 22/02/2021 16:20

Don’t worry they’ve heard it all before. I remember a couple of years ago how a four year old told me with tears rolling down his face about how his parents beat him. They don’t Grin

New posts on this thread. Refresh page