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Just recieved a phone call from a grandma of my daycare girl. The DC girl wanted grandma to call me to tell my son said that horses aren't cows and they don't go mooo. This little girl is smart for her age, but she is a know it all. She tries to pick fights with me about what is right/wrong way to do things. She never believes a word I say and then will question something I said with mom at pick up or drop off to hopefully prove me wrong. I really can't believe that I recieved a phone call to "clear up" what sound a cow and horse make. He was playing with the cows and she was playing with the horses. He does know the difference in the animals and more than likely he was talking about the toys he was playing with. Even if it went the way she said did it really warrent a phone call. I didn't answer and just recieved the message. I'm glad I didn't answer. Don't really know what I would have said....
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really.... I cant believe that the parents or granparent would even follow that up....they should have said NO sweetie you are wrong, a cow does say moo, not a horse...No wonder she is that way, they allow her to act so..
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I went to school (heck he lived across the street) with a mr. know it all. Well, he married a mrs. know it all and she put him in his place for years. Well he couldn't take it anymore and now they are divorced.Comment
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Both children are 3 1/2. I I had a spelling error in the 1st post. I guess my son told her that a toy horse was a cow and it went moo. She felt "very strongly" according to grandma that my son needed to be told what a horse was. I just brought the horse over to him and asked him what it was and he told me it was a cow and it went moo with a sheepish smile on his face, then started laughing. I asked him if he knew it was a horse and he told me that he didn't like horses and he wanted it to be a cow. Also to cows were smaller than the horses and he wanted to play with big "cows".Comment
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what??!! that is stupid and a waste of time. I wouldnt even acknowledge the call.Comment
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Just from reading the original post my first initial thought was that your DS was probably just pretending. Then from reading the rest of the posts it's obviously what happened
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The good thing was that you didn't answer the call. Personally I'd forget that the call was ever made and put it out of my mind. It's too rediculous to warrant a reply.
If it comes up again from DCG I'd just explain in a magical, over-the-top and excited way that
"some kids have what's called an imagination where they can believe and pretend that something is something else. They can even be whatever they want to be. When you play house or princess you are using your imagination, you're not really cooking or holding a real baby and you're not really a princess but while you are using your imagination, you can pretend that you are." and leave it at that.
If it comes up again from DCM or DC grandma I would personally use the same approach but with less gusto and less words. I'd smile and shrug and say "Some kids like to use their imagination. They're kids." Enough said.
I don't get it when grown up people get involved in simple child issues like this. Really? Is that important that you have to call to comment about it?
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