Tonight is concert night! Can I have a “Hollah”? Thanks. We only have one night this year, as last year we had two nights and a dress rehearsal that was open to the public. They tell us it’s too expensive to do two night of concerts. Okay. I hope that means that our concert tonight will be packed. They give out way more tickets than the Tabernacle can seat, so it’s always a good idea to arrive early. I am thankful that I have not contracted any major sickness. I’ve had some days of not feeling well, and my throat hurt last night, but I’ve tried to get extra sleep whenever I can, drink lots, take lots of vitamins, and be liberal with the lysol and germ-x. We’ve spent a lot of time working on this concert, and it’s going to be really fun. Since it’s so early in the season, it’s not really an all out Christmas concert. In fact, it’s called “A little Christmas, a little fun”. We’re excited about the “fun” part. We’ve got a saxophone, harp, and strings joining us, as well as the woodwinds and piano and organ. And some fun songs. As long as we don’t mess anything up, right?
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Today I’m hoping that my daughter stands up to a girl who’s kind of bullying her. On Wednesday, when I picked her up from school, she was very thirsty and chugged a capri-sun drink like it was nothing. Aren’t you drinking anything in the day? I asked her. “Oh, this girl stole my milk. Again,” she told me. What? Who’s stealing your milk? It turns out “some girl” who she says she doesn’t know her name but she’s in two of her classes, just comes up to her on B days and takes the milk right off her lunch tray. It’s happened for three days now. The rest of the carpool was getting in the car and hearing this, and they were outraged. “Who’s this girl? I’ll come and beat her up,” said her friend Lauren. “Oh, wait, I’m in class at that time on B days.” They all rallied and told her to be loud and tell this girl off, but Megan is really quiet and shy at school, it seems, and just lets this girl take her milk. She doesn’t have any friends to sit with on these days, and usually just sits alone. All of her friend have the other lunch. How sad is this? And aggravating, because I would like to go there and stand up for my child, tell this other kid that she has NO RIGHT to just take her milk. On the other hand, it’s just a milk, and maybe this bully kid is really starving and doesn’t have money to buy her own milk and thought my daughter was nice and is therefore taking the milk. Probably not. One of her carpool friends said SHE had this lunch on B days and would sit by her and protect her from this girl, but when I reminded daughter to sit by her, she kind of shrugged. Oh, what to do, what to do?
Our solution was to bring home lunch today. Then she won’t be in the line buying lunch, she can just go right to a table (hopefully), avoiding this girl outright. And if mean girl comes by, she wouldn’t dare take her lunch that she brought from home, would she? I want to just be there, and watch what goes down. If only I had one of those invisibility cloaks from Harry Potter. I could just sneak in there and watch and nobody would know I was there. Or send a spy. A spy who would identify and tell off this mean girl.
Any suggestions? Or should I just forget about it because this girl won’t be there picking on her forever, right?
Oh, I hate these parenting conundrums. I think she needs to say something to the girl, and potentially an “adult in charge.” Schools have strong anti-bullying policies, and that girl might get some help she needs. Poor Megan.
Good luck tonight! If my father-in-law hadn’t had eye surgery yesterday and if I hadn’t spent all last weekend with the marching band, I’d be there. I thoroughly enjoyed the concert last year.
Good luck tonight and I am so sorry to hear about the bullying. I am dealing with some similar things at the bus stop with my oldest.
Bullying is one of those things that all of us remember on some level from our growing up, but we wish we could prevent it for our own kids. Unfortunately, when Tucker was younger, I DID step in and try to solve the problems. That made it so much worse. So now, as a more seasoned parent, I step back and try to let the kids handle it without too much parental involvement. It almost always smooths over faster that way.
Your only choice is to encourage Megan and rally her friends around her. That should solve it. Good luck.
If you do find that Harry Potter cloak, can I borrow it?
And, did you turn off your comments for a few days? I tried to comment, but I couldn’t get there. Love your new layout, picture and colors!
Can you talk to the principal or vice p. and see if there is someone who could monitor what is happening for a day or two? Don’t tell Megan, cause she’ probably be morified, but if someone did see a girl steal Megan’s milk, he/she could catch her on it and do some enforcing of some kind. Maybe Megan could put the milk carton in her sleeve or somewhere on her clothes where it would fit for a minute, or in her lap when she sits down. If she gets it opened and drinks out of it, then the other girl wouldn’t want it, right? Plus, I would hope she is getting time to drink from the water fountain during the day so she doesn’t get dehydrated.
I think you should let her take lunch to school…and with that a full gallon of milk. Yea baby, take that away! good luck!
Here’s my solution:
give her some super glue and have her superglue the milk container to her lunch tray. She won’t be able to drink it (well, I guess she could use a straw), but how hilarious would THAT be when the girl goes to steal it? Hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!
Sometimes a parent needs to step in and take care of things, this is one of these times. Go rock the boat baby!