Many times you wonder if your kids are listening to you when you are talking to them about life’s lessons. Jack has a HUGE heart and wants to believe everyone is like him. He loves playing with his friends at his school and his neighborhood and openly shares all of his possessions with his friends. Guns, swords, cars, star wars, Wii, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS. Jack shares all of this with his friends.
There have been a few times where his friends have taken advantage of his trusting nature and they have taken items from him without him knowing.
Kids Who Jack Thinks or Thought Were Good Friends
Kid I- Lives At End Of Street- Tracey busted the kid who was basically casing Jack’s room while Jack played with another kid in another room and caught the kid with a couple of Jack’s small toys in his pockets. This kid does not come around very often (which is fine with me) but when he does we make sure he is WITH THE GROUP.
Kid II and III- Brothers- Live down the street from us. These are twins. They can get wild outside when they play together but individually they are the salt of the earth. No matter what they are ALWAYS respectful to Tracey and I and they LOVE the snacks that Tracey gives them at our house. They have had dinner with us a couple times and those boys CAN EAT!!! This is who Jack wants to play with 90% of the time. The only problem is Jack is a little aggressive when he comes home from their house or from playing with them. He gets caught up in all of that manliness I guess. I am not sure why but the boys have not been out playing in the neighborhood regularly in a couple of months. Jack plays over at their house but they are not out in the yards playing.
Friend IV- A “friend” that for some reason Jack loves at his school. I have seen this kid at Jack’s school when I eat lunch at Jack’s school and this kid is an A-Hole. There is no other way to put it. He is a spaz and he treats Jack poorly. I will spare you the list but just recently he stole one of Jacks toys and claims it is his. He says that he “found” it back behind his house and has sense changed his story.
Friend V and VI- They live in our neighborhood are just a short bike ride away. They like to play sports but the two kids start out playing fare and tend to gang up on Jack and it usually builds up to making fun of him. By that I mean making fun of his size. Jack only plays with these kids in a group and rarely plays with them at all.
Friend VII- Lives in another city but is at his “grandparents house” every weekend. Jack and this friend get along great and there are never any problems.
I told you all of that to tell you this. Jack is learning one of life’s major lessons. Not everyone is the same. He has decided that friend IV is not such a good friend and asked Tracey this morning to help him think of a way to back out of a play date with this “friend” this morning because Jack decided he can’t trust him. Jack told me that he knows this kid took his toy and he is lying about it. I can’t trust him in the house he will take everything! YEAH!!! Tracey and I are really excited. Because A- he has been listening to us and B- we really don’t like this kid.
About a week ago Kid V and VI showed up at our door and Jack answered. They wanted to know if Jack could come out and play. Jack said, Um, hold on a second and off he ran to the back of the house. The door was half open and I invited the boys into the house to have a seat. While I am not too fond of boys I am going to be kind. In comes Tracey with Jack behind her acting a little sad. She tells the boys some story about why Jack can’t come out and play and the boys leave. Tracey turns around and pats Jack on the head and kisses him on cheek as he grins and hugs his mom. I am really confused because the story that Tracey told the boys was just that … A HUGE STORY.
Seems Jack went to the back and told Tracey that Friend V and VI wanted to know if Jack could play but he did not want to play because the gang up on him in games and call him names and he wanted to know if Tracey could help him. So Tracey made up a story as to why he could not play.
I am proud for Jack. He is learning that not EVERYONE is his friend and he is making good decisions on who he should and should not spend time around.
1 comment:
Is he talking about girlfriends like my daughter is talking about boyfriends. I told her she doesn't even know what it means to have a boyfriend. She says, "It is someone you are going to marry."
WOW. She's 7.
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