Stupid me! A CM whose child will also be going to a CM!

[NumberFour]

I will be on course for the next few months on a Thursday afternoons so arranged a gorgeous, lovely CM friend of mine to mind my DS (4.4). I felt the need to tell her that he is a bit obsessed with killing and playfighting. "it is a sign of intelligence when boys are interested in killing," said my lovely friend (and she really is lovely!)

"Oh, Really? " I asked.

good grief! I know she was trying to make light of what he says but i felt a real twit for sort of kind of almost believing her and wondering where she would have read that!!!
And to think that i am doing the EYPS short course!!!!!

dont worry NumberFour, boys do it all the time and dont turn into serial killers.. what a lovely CM though, its like telling a new on their knees mum that a really intelligent baby never goes through the night

No4, if its any consilation my 3 nearly 4 year is always going on about killing things etc, and can turn the most innocent toy into a gun or something like that.

I think that your friend sounds lovely that she is trying to reassure you. She might not of read it anywhere but wanted to say something to reassure you and its what came out!!

Rubbish Rev he sounds sweet, got time yet to turn into a monster.. just joking..

LOL! I know my CM friend was trying to make light of my son's "interests"! I just felt incredibly stupid once I realised that she was just joking.

DS was like yours Rev I wouldn't let him watch anything violent on TV, it was only me an him so could control most things he came into contact with.

Two months at school and he was playing war and screaming 'but your dead' at his mate when he wouldn't lie down and 'Die' with the best of them [sigh]

They do grow out of it, eventually

{shoshe thinks about the Rugby Match, that grown up now DS, played on Saturday and wonders tho}

the thing my 4 yr old ds is most looking forward to doing when he get back to pre-school?

making guns out of magnet building toys!

This all started with my son when my now nearly 6 yr old mindee joined us 18 month ago. I do think it is a developmental type thingy in some ways. Obviously a child of DS's age cannot fully comprehend what killing and dying means and I hope that by the time he does realise this, he won't think that saying "I am going to kill you, Mummy!" is such a lovely thing to say.....

My dd (4.7) didn't know what killing or dying were until she started school and I started looking after a mindee in her class (4.6) but she sure does now! I don't like it and have to stop mindee chasing her with knives and makeshift guns as she gets really scared! Boys will be boys I guess, although not in my house

We had told dd that my mum was 'sleeping in heaven' but since she started school she does say that 'grandma is dead isn't she'. It sounds so much more final than sleeping in heaven! I guess she had to learn it at some stage and it doesn't seem to have had a traumatic effect on her thank goodness!