Your kids see and hear everything - and share with their friends

[Anonymous]

Isn’t it how kids learn about life and various life circumstances?

[Anonymous]

Yes, kids are obviously blabber mouths (but grown ups know that what they say may or may not be what’s actually going on.)

[Anonymous]

And trust that your kid's friends know all about you too.

[Anonymous]

We're getting divorced.

I welcome my kids to talk to their friends about anything they want/need to.

[Anonymous]

Kids share.

I am a teacher.

One kid shared his mom is a falling-down drunk. Another shared about spousal abuse (in that case, it was the wife who apparently punched DH in the face; later that day at pickup, I saw he was wearing sunglasses in the car). Another kid showed me his hand, where his older brother shot him with a BB pistol.

When you are a parent, there really is no privacy

[Anonymous]

My boys barely tell me about their own day! I can’t believe this many kids are coming home and talking about other people’s families. But maybe I just have weirdly aloof kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If it’s coming from my kid, 80% of what comes out of his mouth is completely untrue. Believe it if you want but it’s highly likely that whatever is being said is not real life.

+1

When my DS was in 1st grade he had to write a journal entry about what he had done over a school break (the journal later got sent home). Everything in there was about his iPad time over the break, even though we had been to a theme park and a professional sports game and done baking projects, etc. 😭 Kids aren’t always the best at reflecting real life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If it’s coming from my kid, 80% of what comes out of his mouth is completely untrue. Believe it if you want but it’s highly likely that whatever is being said is not real life.

+1

When my DS was in 1st grade he had to write a journal entry about what he had done over a school break (the journal later got sent home). Everything in there was about his iPad time over the break, even though we had been to a theme park and a professional sports game and done baking projects, etc. 😭 Kids aren’t always the best at reflecting real life.

Haha that reminded my how my DD convinced her teacher that she had a sister)))

[Anonymous]

You're gross OP. What do you want people to do exactly?

For what it's worth my kid doesn't come home talking about anything like that. I hear more about what happened during the day (so and so and I did xyz at aftercare, so and so threw up in class, so and so has his own ipad at home!)

[Anonymous]

My kids have literally never told me anything about their friends parents. Maybe because we don’t gossip.

[Anonymous]

When I was a kid, I used to tell people I was adopted. I wasn’t adopted.

My DS in MS just wrote a really good Veteran’s Day essay. Both my parents are veterans. It was a well-written essay. It was 70% a lie.

Buyer beware

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If it’s coming from my kid, 80% of what comes out of his mouth is completely untrue. Believe it if you want but it’s highly likely that whatever is being said is not real life.

+1

When my DS was in 1st grade he had to write a journal entry about what he had done over a school break (the journal later got sent home). Everything in there was about his iPad time over the break, even though we had been to a theme park and a professional sports game and done baking projects, etc. 😭 Kids aren’t always the best at reflecting real life.

A friends kid had to do that in class (what I did over the summer used to be a ubiquitous class essay).

Problem was: the family were naturists and spent much of the summer at a clothing optional campground.

[Anonymous]

I have a kindergartner and one of his friends told me all about his dad’s poop.

[Anonymous]

What a wonderful opportunity to teach that some things aren’t our business and change the topic. I can’t imagine how gleefully you must be reacting to gossip that your kid is so excited to share with you where her friends parents sleep

[Anonymous]

Mind your own business.

Maybe your kid blabs that mommy drinks red wine while spending too much time on her phone on a mom website.