Get it right!

When your kids are young and are for the majority of time at home with you, they are in a happy, content and safe little cacoon. As they should be. When they start to get older and are involved in more things that dont include you, like daycare, kindi, pre-school and school, they are suddenly thrust out into semi-independent life and have to learn how to interact, make friends and deal with alot of things on their own.

As a parent your naturally concerned about them on their first few days and wonder whether they are fitting in and hopefully not as worried as you are. As time goes on and they get used to this new way of life, your worry subsides and you assume everything is going ok and they are happy.

Its really hard then to hear that some things arent going so well and your child is having trouble with some not so nice kids. It makes it even harder that because they are at school without you, to a certain extent its up to them to deal with, learn from it and move forward. As a loving parent all your instincts tell you to get where your child is and fight all their battles for them so that they are then safe and cosy again. Unfortunately thats not how life works, we all have to learn at a young age that things arent always perfect as we want them to be and therefore how to resolve issues away from your parents.

I just wish that some parents would do their bit with their own kids which would sort out alot of the nasty things that happen at school. After all our kids learn a majority of behavioural traits from home life and us as parents then have a massive responsiblity to get our kids off on the right foot in terms of social behaviour. Not all kids will get along and become friends, thats natural, but they should definately all be tought to be respectful, kind and honest. Something that unfortunately isnt on the to do list for some parents. It makes me so angry to see how it has affected my son's school experience, its just not fair.

We will work through this issue and sort it out and learn from it together because as much as they need to learn how to deal with things, they also need to know you will always be there for them and have their back in a crisis.

Lets get it right 'Parents' for goodness sake.