It’s quite sad- sometimes I just don’t know how to explain certain behaviours to her. She sees things on tv, real or soapies, and either questions what happened or simply turns away and says “I don’t wanna see..”

It is at the same time intriguing and sad to see her trying to make sense of the world.

I think I would have lectured my child and then give the other child a lecture too, hahaha…, then make them shake hands.

Another incident that happened was in my sister’s class when she was teaching a primary 1 class. This was maybe 10 years ago: a girl gave a boy a kiss (on the cheek) in front of all their classmates. Apparently it caused a big hoo-ha among the teachers. So when my sis quizzed the girl on why she did that, she said, he was too cute and she could not help herself.

We all laughed, but I think the poor boy or girl would have been embarrassed.

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I think he was still in primary when this happened, possibly around standard 3. He’s in form 3 now.

My brother told me that his wife (the mother) got a call from the school about his kid fighting in school. Naturally we’d frown upon such thing, so when they got home, the interrogation was on.

Apparently the bully was, well, bullying in the playground. Essentially my nephew could stand it no longer, and pushed / shoved the other kids, hard enough that the kid fell on his ass. Then only my nephew started crying himself.

My brother sternly warned his son never to fight again, but secretly shone with pride!

I think also he had taught his kids the same sentiment as Shireen’s: In this situation, my nephew was fending for himself. But in my Caitlin’s case above, the kids are all only about 3-4 years old. I think at this point (and probably till early secondary?) they would have to rely on the teacher’s discretion: Report to the teacher first, and hope “justice” is served! (assuming the teacher finds out the actual circumstances of the quarrel.)

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