Adding Injury to Insult

Yes I am aware that the phrase is usually insult to injury, but there is a reason for my unconventional usage.

Yesterday I was feeling guilty about the dental issues. I found out, however, that this is relatively common and not blameworthy - yay!

When I went to pick up LMNOB at school for her OT appt., there was a note.

From Ms. M.

With the word incident in it.

SHIT!

Well over the next 3 1/2 hours, I pulled every trick out of the parenting bag I could think of to get to the bottom of it.

She hit a boy, (slapped him right across the face, per an astonished Ms. M) I determined after about an hour. A boy who is a fairly good friend of hers.

Getting to why was the hard part.

When I had to leave for a meeting and Charlie Brown impressed it upon her that for real they were not going to swim lessons if she did not tell, she finally mustered up the wherewithal to explain what had happened.

Seems this boy and another had been teasing her about her recent friendship that had developed between LMNOB and another boy. These boys had been doing "LMNOB LOVES NEW BOY," and that mortified her. Apparently this has been going on for days. She said she's asked them to stop before, but they wouldn't.

So she hit him.

I can understand her frustrations, but crap! she HIT another child.

And then refused to talk about it with Ms. M AND with us.

This is not the first such time that communication has proved to be difficult - and damn if it isn't getting a bit tiresome.

I love her. I love her like nothing else - but I worry for her because of things like this.



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