Heart breaks for that wee boy. He absolutely needs exposure to social activities, but at an appropriate level. She has designed a life that brings complete overwhelm, exhaustion, and frustration, and failed to instil basic standards of manners, attitude and behaviour. Toddler plates bring one really obvious example!
He needs a firmly maintained boundary, and somebody to be his safe space to gently and firmly enforce those boundaries with him with absolute consistency.
Chucking him into every possible class or caring setting and leaving it to others to over stimulate him is not helpful. This was bound to happen. It’s not that he is being written off, it’s that his parents are not meeting his needs.
‘They have to be here for two hours.’ No, they really don’t. You can say no. Understand that being graded for karate at age six is not the priority right now. If your SIX YEAR OLD isn’t ok to be left because of his behaviour, you don’t do it!!!!
She frequently shows the kids acting up, being inconsiderate, brattish, exhibitionist, flouting rules, being disruptive, and sees no problem with it. She comes over as completely permissive, charmed by the chaos of her own kids, proud to share them acting like wee shlts, oblivious to the fact that it’s her role to shape them, and that their behaviour and attitude is regularly very poor. She’ll happily film and share them being wee horrors then caption it with something like ‘kids will be kids haha,’ as if all parents go through the same.
She has normalised their behaviour to herself, while simultaneously being so unable to deal with it that she throws them into every class possible, loads of unnecessary childcare, and if all that leaves gaps, she puts them in soft play so she can sit on her phone!
(Also - did NOT see this scintillating content coming: ‘this jacket cracks me up it’s just so funny.’ Right. Ok then.)
