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I Forgot to pack 5 year old DD's trainers for PE so she was told to pick up rubbish from the school field instead - am I right to be angry??

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mumtochloe · 22/09/2006 15:06

I feel this is more akin to a punishment. DD said she had been given a really important exciting job to do instead of PE but to be honest I am angry about the whole thing. Would you be angry too or am I being a bit silly?

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FluffyCharlotteCorday · 25/09/2006 22:26

I think at 5, it's just too much to ask them to take responsibility for anything more than going to the loo on time, tbh.

At 7, my DS is still utterly incapable of taking resonsibility for putting his shoes in the right place when he takes them off. He's quite capable of leaving the house in the morning without bookbag or lunchbox and not noticing.

UrsulatheSeaWitch · 25/09/2006 22:47

FluffyCharlotteCorday · 26/09/2006 09:26

In fact, he did it again this morning, making DD late for school. (Left hte house without his bookbag, I mean)

mw14 · 26/09/2006 10:30

handlemecarefully wrote "Well obviously not Fluffy, but I contracted d&v after litter picking with not a condom or used needle in sight"

That may be so, but how do you know the two events were connected in any way?

FluffyCharlotteCorday · 26/09/2006 16:13

What's d&v?

ScummyMummy · 26/09/2006 16:18

runny poo and sickness

FluffyCharlotteCorday · 26/09/2006 16:20

Oh. Diarrhoea and vomiting! Dur!

ScummyMummy · 26/09/2006 16:31

I never get acronyms either!

pointydog · 26/09/2006 18:51

My dd2 often forgets bags in the morning and forgets to bring homework home. I remind her when I can but she knows she'll have to accept any consequence at school because responsibility rests with her. I think 5 yr olds can understand that sort of cause and effect.

FluffyCharlotteCorday · 26/09/2006 19:04

They understand it, but that doesn't mean they're responsible enough to actually effect the behaviour needed to avoid the consequences.

SSSandy · 27/09/2006 10:14

Sounds like the way I'd expect dc to be treated in a Victorian orphanage! I would have complained in writing about that - but that's me I guess.

joelallie · 27/09/2006 11:00

Nah ! In a Victorian orphanage they'd be sent up the chimneys.

I really can't see the problem. I've tried but I really can't.

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mumtochloe · 27/09/2006 11:01

Gosh - haven't checked this post for a while and didn't realise a debate was still going on.

On reflection I have decided to leave it. I am still not entirely happy about it but seeing as DD was happy doing her new "job" I am not going to make an issue of it.

I won't be forgetting her trainers again in hurry though lol

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pointydog · 27/09/2006 16:23

Some kids'd forget 'em on purpose 'cause litter picking's more fun. Especially with one of those squeezy sticks.

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