There is an outline of a mouth and teethmarks on my sweet baby girl’s milky soft shoulder. There is peeling skin. It didn’t break the surface, but still. Erin thinks I'm overreacting. I know this happens. It’s daycare. She’ll be fine. But I’m not happy about it. It happened yesterday on the playground. They tried to ice it but Ellie insisted instead on carrying the bag of ice around like a little purse. Apparently she recovered fairly quickly and they assured me that the biter got a “long timeout.”
And also: I’ve asked several times that Leo get his “what I did today” sheet filled out. He isn’t able to tell me what he did at school so I’m dependent on his caregivers to fill me in. I fork over roughly half my paycheck to these people. Is it too much to ask that they give me a few details about his day? I’m looking for stuff like “played outside,” “read books.” Nothing fancy. Hell, they could lie and I’d never even know. But it’s important to me, especially now, with the potty training business. I absolutely need to know how he is doing with that (since you asked, he seems to be a much better “performer” at school for some reason). He still acts absolutely insulted when we suggest he try the potty at home.
OK, rant over. Thanks for listening. And I called the director today to ask once more and nicely, to request a sheet about Leo for the end of the day. I didn’t mention the bite. Grrr.
1 comment:
That's awful about the bite.
It would have upset me too. You expressed the sense of violation well. Loved the image of Ellie not applying the ice bag, but insisting on carrying it around
like a purse. Does that mean that if Leo had been
bitten, he'd refuse to apply the ice pack as well,
and instead use the ice pack as a gun. (Remember that great story about the gender neutral, anti violence mom who refused to let her son have any weapons, got him a doll instead. Naturally, he reshaped the doll into a gun and started shooting everyone in sight.)
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