I'm horrified....

[Angelinastork]

I got a phone call from my DD's (6 yo) school to tell me that DD has said on a 1 to 1 reading with her teacher that her mummy strangles her when we do reading at home! So the teacher gave me a call to have a chat as she said in all the years she's been teaching she's never heard that.

I'm horrified! I know DD has a funny way of expressing things and the teachers know that, but it triggered a concern at the school enough to give me a call and I'm not sure what do I expect next.

Basically what it is, I told the teacher already, when DD was a little smaller she used to sit on my lap whilst doing the reading and I would reach with my left arm over her shoulder to hold the book and she used to say: 'mummy, you are strangling me!'. But she's grown so much she's too big to sit on my lap so we haven't even done that lately.

Has anyone had any similar experience?

Yet when kids go home and tell their parents about things that happened in school, they are believed.
Makes yer think.

I got called in as 'mummy and daddy were arguing last night'. In fact he wasn't speaking to me, so no words were actually exchanged. It was however the catalyst for him moving out!

Walking to nursery one morning, me pushing the baby in the pram, DS age 3 Walking alongside. Suddenly he ran in front of the pram, I had no time to react, and the pram knocked him over. He wasn't hurt, as I wasn't travelling very fast 😄 first words from Ds mouth when we reached nursery: "mummy ran me over with the pram" 😯😯

My uncle was tickling my sister when she was about 5 and she asked him to stop but he didn't and she roared out 'stop sexually abusing me'. I'll never forget his face, he dropped her on the floor. He was so upset. That'll teach him to tickle a child when she said stop!! It was awful though, he was never really physical with her again and he was worried sick she would say something in school or outside the home.

When my son was at nursery, they asked to speak with me in a very serious tone. They said he’d gotten upset about a scary man looking into the windows of our house, who wanted to hurt his Guinea pigs. I have no idea where he came up with that story but it wasn’t true and he couldn’t explain why he’d said it. I was a bit perplexed at the time but he’s a teenager now and it’s become an in joke.

😳

My then 7 year old daughter told her teacher she sleeps in a tent.

I got a concerned phone call from her teacher one afternoon, had to explain that I occasionally let her sleep in her cute ladybird tent in the living room with many blankets and pillows.

Years ago our next door neighbours had a BBQ and myself and my dd who was 11 and DS who was 9 at the time all went.
Monday morning I get a call from the school that DS has been bragging to everyone in the class that he went to a BBQ on Saturday and got drunk on beer!
He didn't!🤣
I was mortified!

My niece told the nursery that 'my daddy hits me with a hammer'.

I was called in by the nursery staff as my darling had told them I'd bitten her on the tummy and it had hurt and she'd had to tell me to stop. They let it go once but when she repeated it the next day, and showed them a mark there, they had to call me in.

It was a conflation of many things. The mark was a tick bite. I'd sometimes pretend to eat her, from a distance. She had started nipping me and hurting me that week. I'm glad she'd got the message that biting hurts but I'd rather she hadn't tried to make out I was the one doing the biting!

My son went in and told the headteacher he had had rum for breakfast.

He was obsessed with pirates and had renamed orange juice rum.

Horrible to be spoken to about such things (also for the staff who have to start the conversation) but put it out of your mind and act normally when you go to school. It wont go any further:)

My dc used to write in a “news book” in primary about what they’d done at the weekend.

Flicking through waiting to see the teacher at parents evening, I noticed one entry;

“My mum got drunk and was sick”alongside a picture of me lying down next to a bucket! 😳

I’d been out for my birthday and was a bit ill the next day but I wasn’t lying on the floor with a bucket!
So embarrassing.

When we were young my brother stood up in assembly as said "when I'm older I want to do drugs like my dad" as you can imagine there was lots of calls home 😂
But he was a police officer and they had done some big drugs busts recently and had photos taken with all the seized plants haha!

Nursery took me to one side a couple of weeks ago as DD had told them that Daddy wasn’t picking her up “because he’s dead” and offered their support if we had recently had some bad news as a family. Luckily DH was just running late and bounded through the door 2 mins later, very much still with us and in good health. Still haven’t got to the bottom of where she got that from.

when my dgs was at nursery I had a bit of an accident and had a (small) head injury, I played it down to him and just said my head had a bit of a crack on it. It was so lovely when I heard him shout at pick up time 'oh here's nana crackhead' wonderful 😐

My friends DD also once told her teacher that mummy 'drinks beer in the morning when she takes her vitamins'

I would not like to be the teacher who has to decipher these little darlings.

All been gentrified up now. Yours Balsall Heath

(My MIL didn't speak to us for a couple of weeks when we told her we were moving from Shirley to Balsall Heath - the shame!)

When I was little I told everyone at school plus most of the street that I was a love child (because my parents loved me, but I left that bit out). My mum was not best pleased!

I fostered a friend's child for a few months when friend wasn't very well. Child told the childminder that I used to pick her under the stairs if she'd been naughty and that I didn't give her any breakfast! She'd been watching Harry Potter but I was mortified!

My DC once went into school with a nasty red gash across their cheek and heavy bruising and said "Mummy hit me really, really hard".

Totally failed to mention that they'd been dancing and running around in the supermarket when I'd asked them to stop and literally ran head-first into the metal shopping basket.

On the other side, I used to teach Reception and once got a VERY angry email about how I was evil because one little girl had gone home and told her parents I had said she couldn’t have any lunch.
I had sat with her and she’d had a whole plate of chicken, rice, veg and then a yoghurt for pudding. When she got home her parents had asked her what she’d had for lunch and she couldn’t remember, so she panicked and said I’d told her she wasn’t allowed any.
Also had a parent furious because her child had gone home and told her I’d said black people couldn’t eat blackberries. No idea where that came from, but we had been reading a book about a bear who ate some blackberries that day. I had to have a proper meeting with the mum and headteacher about that one because the child was absolutely adamant that I’d said it.
Don’t worry about the phonecall. We know children say weird things but we just have to check.

Didn't prompt concern but caused embarrassment. DS2 (4) announced in class that 'Daddy says Mummy painted his penis last night '.

DS's teacher told me, she was trying not to laugh. I felt I had to explain I had done no such thing. I had painted a Scottish mountain scene and in the foreground was a pile of 3 rocks and DH said they looked like a penis. They didn't but he insisted he couldn't see them any other way. He never said it was 'his' penis. DS2 made it sound like I had painted DH's penis blue in the dining room or something.

I got a phone call from school once because my 7yo son said I'd punched him in the face that morning
He'd also said that he went on holiday that weekend and therefore I had the 'courtesy call'.
I was mortified. Obviously neither of those things happened 😆

DS2 when he was about 5 told his teacher that daddy smacks mummy bottom in the bedroom.

What he failed to tell them was we were having a pillow fight (me, DS1, DS2 and DH) and DH hit me on the bum with the pillow. Some very interesting conversations followed that!

Kids say very weird things. Teachers know that. And she isn’t black and blue from you throttling her.
This will be one to bring up when she gets her first boyfriend.