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?

My dd told her nursery I “kicked her down the stairs”

I used to let her sit at the top and then she liked me to push her “bump bump bump” on each step down the stairs, gently… albeit with my foot!!

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Many years ago, when we went to the Reception class open day, the very wise head teacher said, "We promise not to believe everything they tell us about you, if you promise not to believe everything they say about us."

'Nana Crackhead'...there's not a lot of posts which honestly make me laugh out loud, but this one has! Bloody hell, kids, eh?!!!

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Found the picture!

I used to live near there! The red light district had long since moved on but I spent a happy few years in that house. Very quiet area nowadays!

Gosh, I reading all your replies 😅 😅. Luckily this is the first for us and we had explained to her this evening that hugging very tight is NOT strangling.

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My son (when he was little) told his teacher I was growing weed. He negated to mention they were garden weeds and not cannabis! 😂

@Angelinastork Welcome to parenthood!

🤣. Gosh we grow loads of weeds in our allotment, I need to keep an eye on that.

My granddaughter told nursery "grandma puts me in a box".

It was a large travel cot!

When I was at primary school I told my class that my Mum liked playing football with her friends and going to the pub. No idea where I got that from. She later became a midday supervisor in the playground (maybe for her football skills).

This NEVER gets old

I was once doing a family therapy session and we were talking about appropriate ways to express anger when the 7 year old piped up 'like when daddy forgets to put the bins out, then has to go out in his underpants and says fuck its cold'. Needless to say, daddy looked like he wanted to curl up and die.

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

I actually would class that as sexual abuse. She said stop. Many agencies warn of non-consensual (and even consensual) tickling of children as red flags.

My six year old cousin told his teacher that he didn’t have a daddy but it was alright because he had lots of uncles. My poor aunt was mortified. She and my uncle were in a very normal, stable marriage and there had never been any event that could have prompted this remark.

At her last flu spray in school, My daughter told the school nurse that I pinned her down the last time she had her flu spray and she didn’t like it and the nurse reported it to social services….

I had pinned her down a few years before for her bloody covid test 🙈 that I had to do or she wasn’t allowed in school. Thankfully I did not receive any follow up from social services

When we were little we had to write sentences to go with our spelling words.
my sister wrote ‘my mum smacks me and I cry and cry’ 😂

When he was at primary school DB was writing a diary entry in his school news book about what he did over Christmas. He wrote "we opened our presents and drank beer, wine and gin. Then mummy came home from work and we had more beer and wine and gin. I can't remember any more." The teacher marking it wrote in his book "I'm not surprised!"

at nursery EVERY parent was requested\DEMAND ..to do a "visit"to class...they then got roped into the full a.m\pm session.do painting,read stories,help with snack...
at time the kids was do "smile"power-as such.ALL inmates(hahaha)had (germfest)label toothbrushes. the teacher said.."mummieeeeee tolerable is going to be at the sink\tap so make a nice line and one at a time-take your turn to brush your teeth."(ughhhh)
my adoreable lil angle yells-"MUM_DO NOT DARE PIN MY FRIENDS"
i had to do that selective def thing....
the teacher slides over.tolerable-whats ds mean by pin.
Yes -he did HATE\refuse clean teeth. NO it isni a choice-IF pushed/on occasion id act easy bout it,read him story n once tuckt in tight-would pretty much sit over him on me knees(aviod word straddle cos he my kid)-so no able move legs arms to great effect-but-not sore-he would laugh-i would-brush em cos-you only get teeth to make you smile bestter.you gotta look after em.
(reasonable)
unless 12 wee scream demons in a line wait to go next

My then 5 year old dd told her reception teacher I left her at the bus stop 🙈
We were late for the bus and I had told her to run in case we missed it !
She also told my mum
The same thing over dinner that evening , the first time they had met as we hadn't been talking before !

Er no, that’s not sexual abuse. Yes he should have stopped when she asked, but don’t diminish actual sexual abuse by comparing it with this.

I once got asked into the office at pick up as my dd told her teacher that I refused to give her breakfast and she was 'starving'. Completely untrue but they have to ask you

My niece used to tell anyone who would listen that she hadn’t been given any dinner, even if (like me), they had been there to see her happily munching away. She also told people that her parents and siblings had all been on holiday and four year old her had been left home alone for a week… despite the pictures of her enjoying her holiday.