Dck walks in this morning and you could tell the kid had been crying hard. I look at the kid, comment that it seems like it's been a tough morning and dcm pipes up with 'oh it's been a bad morning! Dck finally stopped screaming on the way over after I threatened to throw the lovie out the window.'

Dcm leaves, dck heads into the playroom, finds a book, and bee lines it for my lap. We read and snuggle a bit, then dck tells me:

"Daddy pushed me this morning cuz he was tired of my bullsh*t"

Seriously? The kid JUST turned 3. But yet the parents have NO CLUE why their kid is so aggressive and says such mean things to them.

Trust me, I've tried to explain it to them. I've pulled research articles, loaned them books, talked until I'm blue in the face. But nope, they have no idea why. Except that it might be due to daycare, since, ya know research shows that kid in daycare are more aggressive. (yes I have read the research and don't necessarily disagree with it. I think there's a lot of factors that go into aggression, personally.)

I'm just.... Some parents are ridiculous!

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to you and to that poor little sweetie

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Thank you. I'm so dang mad about the whole thing. This kid has come a LOOOOONG way since starting here and this kid has such an awesome personality but then there's this 'mean aggressive' side that comes out and, unfortunately, that's what most people know this kid for. Strangers at the store commented about the kid one day and I just about took their heads off. The kid was being GREAT and there were NO behavior issues while at the store but because of this kids reputation everybody acts like it's the spawn of satan.

It kills me that this kid doesn't have a chance in h*ll when 3/4 of the town talks about the kid using words such as 'bad' 'evil' 'out of control' 'needs a whoopin',

Ok, I need to get off of here cause I'm pounding the keys on my laptop and just woke the baby up. Lol.

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