Portrait of the Glasses Thrower or Let's Make a Mountain Out of a Molehill!

Leo's Kindergarten Portrait, October 2009

The conversation with Leo's teacher Mrs. L. went well yesterday. To make a long story short, Mrs. L. said she would not have even mentioned Leo's behavior on the playground to me if it weren't for the potential that another child's glasses could be lost or broken. She said Leo is so fast (so stealth, my boy!) with the throwing that it's easy to miss the event altogether.

More than one child in Leo's class wears glasses but for some reason Leo insists on only picking on this specific child. And to make matters worse, this child says nothing when Leo throws the glasses. The only reason the staff knows it's happened is they look over and realize Oh, that child has no glasses!

So now, as much as I would not be laughing if Leo did break the child's glasses (and I got a bill from the parents) I'm finding it hard not to find some humor in the situation.

The aggression that was mentioned? Mrs. L. thinks Leo is trying to get the attention of his peers. He wants them to play with him. And I suppose because of his speech/language issues, the only way Mr. Bruiser feels he can communicate with them is physically. Kind of sad, but honestly, this is reassuring to me. I love the fact that he wants to engage his peers, now we just need to work on not, you know, alienating them and destroying their possessions.

Regarding the aide's comment about "seeing a change in Leo," well I'm not so concerned with it now that I've spoken with Mrs. L., who spends seven hours a day with Leo over the aide's one hour. And I'm with Cate that she seems a bit melodramatic about the whole thing. As Cate asked, "Does she think Leo is starring in a Lifetime movie?"

A funny Lifetime movie, that's for sure.