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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]i think sometimes parents of ece and elementary school children dont have a great understanding that the other children are also just kids and rarely being intentionally malicious.  reports home even from very well-behaved children can be very one-sided and difficult to sort through[/quote]

+1.  In PK3, my son would tell me frequently about one particular girl who hit him sometimes, took his toys, was mean to him, etc.  I was considering asking a teacher about it, and then one day when I was chatting with the teacher she mentioned that my son and the girl were best buddies and always paired up and gravitated towards each other.  I realized that his stories of her "mean" behavior weren't because the girl was a bully or something, but because he was playing with her all day and they are 3yos so they got into arguments and stuff.  It was kind of a paradigm shift for me.[/quote]

Yes, this.  My pre-k kid recently started talking about friends being “mean” to her and it took us a couple of weeks to put together that what she meant was that they were sometimes unwilling to do things her way.  She likes to be in charge and is learning that you can’t make people do what you want all the time.[/quote]

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