((((((Libra))))))) Please tell me you are joking?! :shock:
What have the school done? Poor lil blighter.
Venusxxx
I honestly wish I was joking. They hauled him and I into the office and told him off for being bad.
I'm so fucking angry right now
like alot of things where PC has gone mad...
If you child is only 5 then the school has no mandate to tell them off, they must report it to you for you to deal with. the school and teacher i believe may be abusing their authority on this occasion.
What the hell is this country coming to.
so i take it kiss chase is a banned game! (not that it happens now adays but ya get the picture!)
this country is tooo PC.
JGL
That's PC for you!....our son is nine and another boy accused him of making a sexual movement on him.....which he was totally oblivious about....but the teachers panicked about the complaint and i had to go up to the school....to cut a long short the boy had lied and our son had only banged into him in the playground and because he came off worse made up the because of all this our son now knows certain things that he did not know before and wasn't really ready to understand!
But to your story to have a go at a five year old for kissing a was just showing affection nothing more than that so why should the school make it worse than it seems!
We all played games like kiss chase and postman knock at school and did us no harm!
I hope the telling off does not affect your son he're be scared to give his mum a kiss!
Poor little muffin.
I'm really interested in the psychology of sexuality and it's stuff like this that makes me soooo sad. Children are being taught that natural interactions are wrong and immoral...he'll probably remember this, it's that type of memory that sticks. Even if he did 'fancy' her (i fancied the pants off Kevin Thorne when I was 5!), these little rituals and play gestures are an important part of growing into a sexually un-screwed up adult!
Expressing physical affection is instinctive, and stifling it (out of fear of the compensation culture and being accused of whatever the sick-minded PC brigade choose to read into it) can only lead to people growing up repressed and unable to form normal human relationships. I believe children should be guided, but not controlled because I have confidence that after a million years of evolution they pretty much know what to do, and meddling with normal instinctive behaviour is presumptuous and, I believe, dangerous.
i recall my first kisses (age 8) with maria (age 6) behind the dumper truck opposite our houses. shortly afterwards her family moved to australia, which i thought was a little extreme.
good luck, libra.
Better kissing a girl than kicking a girl!
Still,lets hope by the time they're adults that our repressed society may have embraced aspects of the quiet revolution thats happening herein and that they live in a freer,fairer world.
Schools nowdays have so many silly rules, that just arent practical. I used to work as a teaching assistant and now a dinnerlady and the little things the kids can and cant do, even the things we arent supposed to do is unreasonable.
F
My 5 year old is a sweet lovely little boy (when he isnt torturing the cat), he would think nothing of kissing and cuddling with other boys from his class, at partys the boys dance with each other (well run about like dafties) no-one could see it as sexual, (unless there has been a problem in the past, but that surely would be an exception to the rule).
Children will naturally express there affection for each other by kissing, its nothing more than affection, they will embrace each other like they have not seen each other for months, where in reality they saw each other 20 minutes ago. You take them to school and stand there in the freezing bloody cold waving at them when the lines get taken in, and what do they do they bloody ignore you and wave at there pals.
I learned so much from girls doing handstands at school, and think it is very wrong for my boys to miss out on that, games of "doctors and nurses" and "mums and dads" will obviously be a big no no, that meana "hide and seek" will be even more important to them (this is where I first got to stick my hand up a girls skirt ) a good hiding place will give them ample oppertunity to find out what they need to. We will have sexually repressed children but they will be bloody good at hiding
Most of all I want these kids to have a better time of it than I did - I went through so much adolescent angst,so much loneliness over what should have been a sweet natural joy to resonated through my adult life and here I am still,trying to resolve it all in myself.I want to see them live as they desire and not feel shame or be reproached for simply being human beings.
Well when I was at school I played Knicker Chase which bascially was where the boys chased the girls and if they caught them then they pulled down their knickers......of course we got caught and me and a guy got hauled into the Headmistress's office and I blamed the guy LoL......
But back to the original subject....I think it's absolutely ludicrous that kids can't be affectionate with each other and give each other a little kiss and cuddle....we certainly did worse when we were kids.....
OMG hun just read this thread The Schools are getting worse, kissing and cuddling is a natural thing to a child of that age
i thought not letting them play conkers without a pair of goggles and gloves ridiculous but this takes the biscuit.
hes only 5 years old ffs
butters is correct ask for the school policy if its not there cause em as much work as you can.
A friend of mine had her hubby moved out the house. After a chance remark from her daughter at school, Social services stepped in kept that family apart for 3 months. he was allowed home after a lot of meetings and interviews.
the reason for this
He blew a raspberry on his daughters bottom while they were playing.
Thank you all who have added to this thread, especially to Butters for your advice. I've asked for a copy of the schools behaviour and discipline policy and will collect it this afternoon. But after this mornings phone conversation with the Head Mistress I think a good lawyer is what I need.
UPDATE
My son and 9 other children have been enrolled into a *teaching children how to play* programme at the school.
This is a situation I cannot accept nor am I willing to walk away from it.