Hello!
DS (9) was at his childminder's retirement party yesterday ... when I got there, one of the other children told me he'd been crying. I asked him about it and he said that childminder's granddaughter had said "Bye. No one likes you anyway". This is the slightly younger child he has been at childminders with for over 6 years. I hated to think that his last day at childminders would be marred by memories of the kids being mean
I called her over and had a quiet word (didn't give out to her, just said DS was a bit upset and that it would be really lovely if she could say sorry or even just give him a big hug before we went).
She couldn't remember having said it...
Anyway when we went to leave, little shit girl didn't say sorry, give him a hug or do anything nice, despite me giving her significant looks.
I feel like talking to now ex childminder about it because I'm so upset and angry.
I may be making too much of this but:
- this is most definitely not the first time that DS has had these sorts of comments; it happens a fair bit
- this is a child he has been with since she was 2 and he was 4
- the few occasions anything like this happened to me still have the power to upset me and I really hate to see the same thing happen to her.
DS is v bright, v imaginative and talkative, but can be a bit bossy and obsessive so I can see why he might be annoying. But that doesn't excuse the nastiness...