My son had an incident yesterday. The teacher said he’s acting immature or doesn’t know what’s going on. My wife called me and told me about it. That got me worried. I don’t want my son to be labeled “slow” or “immature” or “so so.” It also got me thinking that we might need to leave him for another year.
So I came home and I acted calm. As if nothing happened. Then, when Fabian wanted to play downstairs. I told him I want to talk to him. I took him upstairs and we sat at the big dining table. And we talked. He was explaining his situation as it happened. It doesn’t appear that anything big happened. Just minor miscommunication, perhaps. I told him my expecations. I told him this behaviour is unnacceptable. I told him to ask questions. Fabian took it well, I said we will talk every day.
I learned that by talking and getting into other’s point of view, I can get my message across. Hitting and yelling is probably not the way to go.