My DD has just started primary school. She’s a lovely girl, confident and chatty but can be a little pickle at times. She came home from school as normal on Friday and it wasn’t until she was in the bath that she burst into tears and said she ripped a book at school by accident and the teacher would be sad. It transpires she didn’t do it accidentally, she didn’t like the book so she ripped it up.. the whole thing and then hid it. She’s never done this before and I was quite shocked but given she was inconsolable I could see she felt guilty and didn’t mean to. We went out at the weekend and replaced it and today she apologised to the teacher who was lovely and understanding and said it’s great she admitted it and said sorry but they wouldn’t have expected her to do that.
She knows it was wrong and wanted to sleep with me that night as she said she felt so sad about it!! Is this kind of thing normal?! I hope I dealt with it in the right way by saying that’s not kind and just because she didn’t like it, it doesn’t mean other children won’t and she mustn’t do it again. I think she understands now.