"Daddy Hurts Me"

[*Nessa*]

well i had a word to her team leader in her daycare room and asked if she had mentioned anything.

Apparently she had mention that daddy hurt her and when she was asked why she told them daddy smacked her cause she was naughty and pushed Annika. So they are not worried about it in the least.

which i suppose is a good thing. They said unfort kids do say these things are are often not what they come out to be.

Am still going to have the chat with little miss tonight and try and spend more mummy time with her just us. Its hard but will try harder to fit it in.

[*Ang*]

When I was 4 and in kindy I used to bruise alot (as kids do) so my teacher sat me down and asked me some questions. I then proceeded to tell her that my parents tied me up and beat me with a stick which is something they had never ever done. My mum was a teacher at the same school and along with my father was bought into a meeting with the principal and a social worker - they were mortally embarressed. Thank goodness it was established pretty quickly that I was making it up!

SO what I am trying to say is that a lot of kids tell white lies in the hope of possibly getting attention, I am sure your daughter Nessa is not the first to have done so. I think the idea of having a good chat to her about the consequences of not quite telling the truth is a great idea and also about the book. She is just expressing what she feels but she needs to understand that there are perhaps other ways of saying things.

At least her daycare teachers realised pretty quickly what was going on too. Good luck with dealing with it.