Tattling

Sometimes tattling gets them in trouble - sometimes it gets you.

It is pretty funny sometimes…. kids will come running to complain that she - or he “hit me back first!”

When I point out that they should not have hit at all, they whine “yeah, but s/he hit me BACK!”

Oh the humanity.

One of my favourite complaints is “She yelled at me LOUDER!”

It is not like any of the kids really get in a whole lot of trouble though - we use short time-outs for discipline; the child is sent to go sit in a chair, and they are allowed to rejoin the group as soon as they’re calm enough.