So….we signed up Ethan for a preschool camp. It’s just a week long thing for kids from 8:30-11:30. It was somewhat unnerving because we’ve never left him alone at an unfamiliar place for so long. He’s great when he’s playing with his cousin Hannah and even at church for sunday school. But we got some bad signs when Jena dropped him off. First the staff was not all that friendly. As a person who loves kids, you know immediately who else loves kids. A lukewarm reception at the start. Second, parents cannot stay and watch how the kids are treated and how they interact with the other kids. Absolutely necessary for parents to know what is going on with their kids. Third, I got a “He did great” from the teacher. hmmm… I’d like a little more detail. Fourth, when I picked him up he was off by himself stomping on a bug crawling on the floor. He looked despondent and down at the floor. I didn’t get a happy “hi daddy” or anything. A little strange to me. I looked and saw that all the other kids had paintings. When I asked him where his was. He said he didn’t paint cause he didn’t listen. I didn’t like what might have been going on. He started acting out when he got home. He cried so sadly that Jena ate his unfinished cheese burger. He was acting so strangly we didn’t send him back. Now am I overreacting?

Someone once said “Ethan, you are so needy”. At first I really didn’t think much of it, only that it was an odd thing to say to a child. Then I began to think what she really meant by that comment. Even if Ethan is a sensative child doesn’t it make it that much more important for his parents to be sensative to that?

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