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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That sounds very normal to me, I wouldn’t feed it with your attention though.[/quote]

+1, reality and fiction are still kind of loose concepts for this age. I get your concern about these specific stories and I think it makes sense to follow up in those cases, but as long as the teachers are saying everything is fine, I would not worry more.

Oh, and he didn't actually lie regarding the slide story -- a kid did fall and hurt themselves! It just wasn't Katie. That's okay. My child is now 6 and still sometimes doesn't know the names of every classmate and will sometimes take a guess that turns out to be wrong. At 3 or 4 I would not have trusted any report like that to have any accuracy. The fact that he got the main details correct and just the name wrong? Actually above average for a preschool story.

And yeah, the other one was probably him getting mildly reprimanded for something and reporting it as "being sent to the office," a concept he probably hear in a book or from another child -- it probably just felt like a huge deal to him to be singled out for bad behavior at some point, but was actually not a big deal. I would find it reassuring to hear the school has a reasonable approach to discipline (agree that it would be weird to send a preschooler to "the office" for anything short of violent behavior that is endangering others).

Just don't make a big deal of it, correct facts if you know them to be false, but then move on.[/quote]

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