Grey Days...

Ack the week started so well,

nothing exciting planned or occuring.

A fundraising idea came to fruition, the goodies handmade to sell were dropped off and even the grey miserable days weren't going to penetrate a drop of gloom into my day.

The weather has been grey, wet and miserable...but it had been a perfect backdrop for all the wonderful golden colours that Autumn throws out.

Then I had the 'talk' at Loopy's school.  

Loopy had taken an old pad into school to doodle on, it had been damaged and an adult became involved.  On inspection there were 2 pages in the book that were not ok, 1 had swear words and the other had a cartoon of me with my head chopped off!

Now that is ok with me...I'm of the thinking that it's better for the kiddos to write/draw their anger out.  The penmanship and spelling are far too advanced for Loopy and not really the hand of RV and it turns out it was Lollys work from around 4/5years ago.  

{I guess I had upset her quite royally but she doesn't remember it at all}

Then there was the bit that felt like a kick to the nuts, I always wondered what it would feel like to have your breath whipped away.

Loopy has told her teacher that she gets hurt at home by her siblings and that we do nothing or not enough about it.

Ouch

Regardless of who starts it, who did this or that we treat them all equally and I thought fairly.

They rough house, rarely does it escalate to aggression.

The school obviously have to take what she says on board and listen then act, so that is why I had the 3 teacher 'talk'.  

I've spoken to the other kiddos and I've spoken to Loopy.  

Reminding them all to respect each other, each others property, each others space, each others feelings.

Just when I think life is ticking along quite nicely it turns out that Im missing a chunk.

Yes Loopy is a drama queen, she is a tonka toy of force, perhaps her voice has the decibel level of a fog horn but I need to be more mindful of her little feelings it seems.

Living and learning how to parent still, 20 years into the journey.