No boys allowed!
pamelamyers | October 23, 2013
I mentioned that we think Sam has been getting better at playing with the kids at school. She still has a long way to go though. Sam is still so timid when approaching other kids, and one day recently, she even told my mom that she doesn’t talk to the other kids because she doesn’t know what to say. I found that so horribly sad…. We have been working with her to give her ideas about what to say, like, she could tell someone she likes something they are wearing, or ask them if they have any pets, and so on. It seems to be working, at least a bit, because she seems to be telling us more about playing with the kids at school. But girls. Only girls. Believe me, she is not too fond of the boys. She is always saying she only plays with the girls. I tried to explain to her that boys are ok to play with, that her cousin Maddox is a boy, for example, and she loves playing with him, but she doesn’t budge in her mindset.
Today she came home telling us that she was playing with a ball at school and a boy took it. This upset her a lot. We figured out eventually that the teacher made the boy give it back to her. At any rate, it started her whole conversation again about how she doesn’t like playing with boys. Mark tried to explain that she can have boy friends as well as girl friends but she wasn’t having it. Finally, at one point, she told him she doesn’t like boys…but she likes “Boy Daddys”. They are ok. So there you go. Daddy is ok. But that’s it.
I have to tell you, as the mother of a daughter, who is dreading the boys she will someday bring home…that is fine with me!
