hola!
so when mom got home today we were talking a moment before i left and gernot came up and shoved me quite hard in the uterus area of my stomach and then pinched me super hard in the stomach. i immediately scolded him and tamara said "just ignore this"
i said 'what?'
she said 'it's best if you just ignore this'
my reply was a bit rough but i said in no uncertain terms would i ever ignore this kind of behavior from any child.
i can ignore a lot of things from kids...kids can be wholly annoying sometimes but that's part of my job, life with kids and every parent/caregiver knows this.
but ignoring a child who kicks and hits an adult?
no no no.
i have never in all my years of child care had any parent tell me to ignore a child who was hitting/kicking and so on.
even my brother, who was far worse than gernot in the mental capacities, was put in the corner/time out when he bit me or an adult when we were kids.....he learned and eventually got better....
so yeah, that's my funny ha ha for the day
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Well, it's not like her discipline/child rearing practices have proven effective (plus she's annoying), so are you surprised that she's willing to let a kid get away with that? Calvin and I had a knock-down, drag-out, mealtime-in-the-miracle-worker-style session on the time out rug once when he hit and bit me--it wasn't pretty. He still goes through phases of hitting me, and there is ZERO tolerance. You done right! And I'm glad you know it!
ReplyDeletehear hear! *raises a glass*
ReplyDeletethrough babysitting and nannying i have worked for over 50 families on a repetitive basis, and NEVER EVER had someone do this..... not to be tolerated!
i just am sometimes not sure how to talk to her. she's very protective especially of gernot but the dad comes home and says that 'yes it's your job and we trust you to make the right choices' which is how i am used to working as a nanny within the guidelines of the parents i have worked for.
ReplyDeletei am not claiming to know everything about kids, who the hell does....but i do know that hopefully we can all get together and work on this....it's been a weird week with them.
i posted on my expat forum because i know a lot of them expats are parents and got some really sound advice.
gernot is not a monster but i do alter how i react to his actions when mom is around because she usually tells me to ignore pretty much everything he does.....
ignorance sadly isn't bliss people....okay maybe to some....ignoring behaviors from a 4 year old don't make the behavior disappear!