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there was no 'taking it out' on smiley - 01:11 PM
(filed under 'smiley')
let's clear this up, people. i need to respond to some comments on the entry about when smiley cut my thumb.
i didn't 'take it out' on smiley. i told him off just as i would have told him off for anything that he's done many times before & which he knows he needs to take care with, but which he didn't.
he's been using scissors for about a year & can use them very well with his very advanced fine motor skills (for instance, he's been holding pens & pencils the 'proper' way ever since he started holding them, which is surely about three years by now). thus why he was told off for not taking due care with something that he knows very well how to do. in fact, he's been cutting the yarn for me with those same scissors quite regularly for several weeks & has been careful with it in the past.
i was just venting about having a very deep cut in my thumb. it's not like i beat the child senseless or anything. he didn't even get anything as harsh as a spanking or a time out, for crying out loud! he wasn't even punished at all!
coralie I didn't mean that you
would take it out on smiley. I
know you wouldn't da that. you love him a lot
Yeah I'm sorry but I'm with Dave... that's just ridiculous to think that Coralie would take it out on Smiley. There was nothing to imply in her post that she was going to take it out on him at any time...
God I cant stand people who judge others..
I'm very sorry for any offence my last comment may have caused. I know you are a fantastic Mum and that you would never do anything to hurt him and that's not what I meant. Perhaps I may have interpreted what you wrote differently to what was meant. However since this is a public blog and you invite people to comment, for the record I would like to say that personally I would not allow my 4 year old to use surgical scissors even under supervision because I would not take that risk of him hurting himself or others regardless of how dexterous he was. That is MY opinion and I don't mean to upset anyone. If you only want people to comment here if they agree with you then say so.
i've already emailed back & forth with the two commenters who thought i was taking it out on smiley. mainly, this post was to make it more clear that i didn't fly off the handle at him for anyone else that may have thought so.
i figured that if the two people who commented read it that way, the likelihood of more people reading it that way was pretty high.
i don't expect people to agree with me all the time & i don't mind people giving an alternative opinion in the comments. it makes sense that i do have the right to refute those opinions with my own, though, right?
as is always the case, it's very easy to misinterpret a text only medium. i'll try to be more clear next time.
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anyone that really knows ferrous knows that no kid is more loved or doted upon than her son. to her, corporal punishment is less important than the teaching she gives him on boundries, attitude and respect.