Dennis came running to my classroom after school got out, and he promptly informed me "I was really bad today." I already knew this. I'd walked by his classroom twice and glanced in to see him in action during the day. The first time, I caught him pounding a kid's ear with a toy hammer. I yelled at him from the hallway and his teacher promptly took action. I saw him again during his snacktime, and I walked by just in time to see him lightly smack the kid next to him. I sent him my "I'm very disappointed" glare and called him out on it. His teacher told me later that he just couldn't keep his hands to himself today, that he wasn't malicious per se, but he was pretty physical. He confessed this to me and David AND to his Taekwondo teacher (who gave him a stern talking to and extra push-ups). He's lost his opportunity to see Santa again this weekend. He cried a good bit and promises to be better. He also asked me tonight if he could apologize to Mrs. Nancy and his friends. I will remind him of this next week at school.
Once we got home from school, Batman came out to play on the playground. He performed his death-defying stunts on the swingset. His Daddy stopped him from jumping out of his climbing tree and removed his cape before it could get hung. He's just a mess of sneezing and snot, and I hope that when he gets better, his violence might also improve. We've cut all violent cartoons, have for a few weeks now, and though we wonder about the Taekwondo lessons, he learns nonviolence there. And the stuff I saw him do was definitely not learned in Taekwondo, looked nothing like it. I heard him say to his preschool teacher "but Mrs. Nancy, I didn't mean to hurt them--those were just love taps!". I don't know where he got that particular terminology from, but we don't do 'love taps' or 'love hits' or 'love kicks' (all his words)!
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