mamahood 101: the wrong crowd.
It was a normal school day and perhaps the only thing that happened differently that day was that I was the one who picked Luqman up. Normally, I wouldn't be so lucky to get off so early (guilty as charged).
And like any normal day, I told Luqman to do his round of salam teacher, which he was really hesitant and rather bashful about but that was also pretty normal.
What wasn't normal was when his teacher made a passing remark (not in verbatim) -
"Eleh, malu-malu je lebih padahal samseng!"
And my.heart.dropped.
Obviously, I wasn't very happy with her calling my son all kinds of names, after all, panggilan tu kan doa (?) but I figured that this wasn't the time for preaching, so instead, I probed further on what she meant.
SO, she told me that Luqman has been getting into fights with one of his friends (?) once too often. It's like the both of them really hate each others' guts (not sure why) and they start fighting the moment they meet. She also told me that he's into the habit of squashing people on the floor (there's 5 of them including Luqman who lovee to do this) and also biting others with all his might.
This was news to me. Really. For a long while, I swear I felt sick to my stomach. I found all of this hard to digest because he is nothing like what his teacher tells me when he's at home and I know for a fact that he is not a habitual biter.
Though hard to believe, I also knew that the teacher had no reason or motive to tell tales of my sweet boy, so I thanked her for telling me and corrected her name-calling, just to set things straight. She got it and thereafter stopped.
I had a sleepless night. It was hard to believe that the boy I raised had turned out to be so... unlike how I raised him (?). I know that I have to get to the bottom of things but I just don't know how. It wasn't happening at home so there was nothing to immediately rectify when he was in my presence so I tried talking to him about things.
About how he was always fighting with that particular boy;
About who he was friends with;
About why he was biting people,
You know, things you normally talk about with your 3-year olds (not!).
I never expected that I would have to face these kind of problems so early in my mamahood and frankly, I don't know yet how on earth I am supposed to solve the problem.
So, if you have any idea or have faced the same problem, please do shed some light on this clueless mom!
Who knew that Taska too, has a "wrong crowd", right?
Sigh.
For now, I'm just pep-talking him and praying that this is all temporary.
*urut kepala*
This was news to me. Really. For a long while, I swear I felt sick to my stomach. I found all of this hard to digest because he is nothing like what his teacher tells me when he's at home and I know for a fact that he is not a habitual biter.
Though hard to believe, I also knew that the teacher had no reason or motive to tell tales of my sweet boy, so I thanked her for telling me and corrected her name-calling, just to set things straight. She got it and thereafter stopped.
I had a sleepless night. It was hard to believe that the boy I raised had turned out to be so... unlike how I raised him (?). I know that I have to get to the bottom of things but I just don't know how. It wasn't happening at home so there was nothing to immediately rectify when he was in my presence so I tried talking to him about things.
About how he was always fighting with that particular boy;
About who he was friends with;
About why he was biting people,
You know, things you normally talk about with your 3-year olds (not!).
I never expected that I would have to face these kind of problems so early in my mamahood and frankly, I don't know yet how on earth I am supposed to solve the problem.
So, if you have any idea or have faced the same problem, please do shed some light on this clueless mom!
Who knew that Taska too, has a "wrong crowd", right?
Sigh.
For now, I'm just pep-talking him and praying that this is all temporary.
*urut kepala*
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