My kids are learning things at school that are taking them from kid land and I’m not happy about it.
Laina’s friend taught her what the middle finger means, Maile’s friend kissed a boy, and yesterday Kainoa pointed an object at me and said “Pew pew pew”.
My son wants me dead.
All my years of hard work, keeping these kids shielded from the eff word and “relations” and violence is coming undone. When Kainoa shot me with his finger and his brain I quickly looked at my Mom and said, “well where did he learn that!?!”, convinced she’d been playing some sort of violent cops and robbers game with my boy when I left him in her care for an hour.
“Oh Kathy, boys will be boys…they make guns out of anything! That’s a losing battle right there…believe me, I’ve been in your shoes and I fought the battle and I lost” she said.
“No way, he is three years old and has never played with guns before…he doesn’t even do that whole karate kicking thing that other boys his age get into. He has not been exposed to that stuff and I intend to keep it that way.”
But I can’t keep up. My kids are coming at me from all sides with the things they’re bringing home. They’re name calling with words we’ve never uttered in our house before.
Just yesterday I actually heard myself yell, ” MAILE!! If you EVER tell your sister you’re going to punch her in the penis again you’re going to be in BIG TROUBLE!”
What is going ON around here!?!
I’m struggling. Struggling between wanting my kids to just remain in this happy care-free kid land that they live in and allowing them to learn about the reality of the real world. The world that has guns and kissing and bad words.
Me no likey.