I am thoroughly proud of the progress E.B. is making in preschool. He has really blown us away with some of the things he comes home telling us about. It’s definitely been money well spent. However, there’s just this teensy little habit he has picked up while there and it’s getting just a teensy little bit annoying. My baby is now a tattle-tail.
Poor thing. He has no brothers or sisters so he had no idea that things such as the cat touching him, the cat looking at him, and even the cat breathing the same air (the very idea!) as him was such an issue to be concerned over. The first few times he tattled it flew right over my head. I have worked with kids. I know they have complaints from time to time when all is not right in their world. But then I started hearing the following things:
“Maaaaaamaaaaaaa!!! Bonnie touched!!” (Bonnie is the cat)
“Maaaaaamaaaaaa!!! Cwyde jumpin’ on da table!!” (Clyde is our other cat)
“Maaaaaaamaaaaa!!! Kitty not eat his foooood!!”
Needless to say, I now enjoy a daily play-by-play of everything our cats do from sun-up to sun-down. I know if they’re sitting on the couch, using the litter box, and sleeping.
I also know what every child in his class has done at school on a particular day, who got time out, and what they ate for lunch. I’m thinking this might be valuable information for those parents who actually want to know every small detail of what their child is doing AND for the busy teacher who has no time to keep up with such things. Perhaps I should offer a service for that. After all, my son knows it all.
And tells it all.
I have a tattle tail, too. It’s handy when she’s ratting herself out, but I really don’t need to know every single thing everybody else has done all day. *sigh*
Just be glad he tells you things. I have to pry everything out of my son when he comes home from school.
I think Renae has an excellent idea for torture!
I hate, despise and intensely dislike tattling and yes, my kids do it anyway….GRR!!!
At least you know what’s going on at school and whether or not the cats are behaving!
The first thing I thought when I saw this post was… LOOK at THAT cat, would ya. He/She is huge! 😉 We’ve started in on the tattling, too, and they aren’t even in preschool. Cute, cute picture, by the way.
That is too cute!
p.s. I can say that since my girls are adults. 😉
LOL
Oh nooo…I can SO wait for the day my little one starts doing that. With 2 older siblings in the house, he’s bound to start someday.
haha, how cute that is. I sooo feel ya though, and it doesn’t get any easier!
Oh, Mandy. Welcome to my world. 😉 Homeschooling two kids equals hearing, all day long, every single day, what the other one did that the first one didn’t like, and back and forth . . .
They really do love each other. They just have to be reminded, a lot, that they love each other.
I think the young-child-tattling-method could be used to provide a form of torture for the CIA to use. A few hours of steady tattling, and the bad guys will be willing to do anything and say anything to MAKE IT STOP, don’t you think? 😉