Last week, Alice's kindergarten teacher phoned in the evening. My husband, Ryan, took the call because I was out speaking on a panel about San Francisco's public school enrollment process (more on that in a later post). Apparently, Alice is "poking and tickling" other students and she's disrupting her classmates. The teacher tried to explain this to Alice in class but my daughter didn't understand because she only knows four week's worth of Chinese.
My husband recounted the conversation to me and the teacher couldn't have been nicer about it. She recognized that Alice's pokes are playful and loving and not vicious, but she wanted us to talk to Alice. And so the next morning, we held a family meeting and reminded Alice to keep her hands to herself.
"But can I hold my friends' hands?" she asked.
"Yes, of course, just no poking and tickling."
"But I like to poke and tickle."
"Well, it's disruptive."
"I like to disrupt."
What am I going to do when she's a teenager? I worried
Have you received a call from a teacher about your child's behavior? Got any funny stories to share?
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