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On a call Sunday night, my daughter talking to me for almost 30 minutes.
During our talk, she mentioned that she was “kicked out” of her schools. She’s right. The daycares she’s been enrolled so far have asked her mom to take her out due to my daughter’s problem heeding authority.
As much as I like being straightforward in explanations, definitions, etc, I’m not comfortable with her using the term kicked out. It’s dismissive and implies that she is the problem.
I’ve known she was removed for some months. In one of the preschools, she lasted only one week. A lead staff member there was kind enough to share with me the details of her problems. I got nothing from her mom, and I probably wouldn’t have found out until her mom sent me copies of invoices at the end of the month. I digress.
A Talk about Talents
My daughter is 4. She hears and sees everything, but her mind doesn’t process the information well enough to understand or compartmentalize. I wanted her to believe a different idea about why she was forced to leave those schools, so I told her the school doesn’t have someone that can “help you with your talents.”
We had to define talent. I told her talent is something you’re good at that someone doesn’t have to teach you to do. After I pointed out her talent, – altuism, linguistics, etc using terms a 4 year old might understand – she seemed to accept the explanation.
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