Is your child prepared for the world outside?

Hi everyone, here I'm back again with another post.

This is a true incident that happened with us few days after my daughter started her school. As I have told before, she goes to nursery. Now, a kid of that age won't actually understand what's happening around. Even if they would, they don't know what to do in situations unfamiliar.

I used to pick her up from the school everyday, and she, on seeing me standing at the gate waiting for her to come out, became so happy, flashed her million dollars smile, held my hand and came out. It's a 10 minutes walk from our home to her school, and we discussed everything she did that day, did she finish her lunch, what did she learn at school, and everything else that usually a school going kid would discuss with their mom.

That day was no different, I held her hand and she started walking with me. We had just crossed the school when from the school vehicle I could hear a kid shouting at my daughter, "hey you, smelly dinosaur!".

Now, who know my daughter know that she LOVES dinosaurs.

But, situation was different here. Who shouted from the vehicle was a kid himself, not more than 5-6 years of age himself. My daughter, didn't react. Didn't even look at him and proceeded to walk. I was shocked nonetheless, so I stopped with a jolt. I looked at the boy who was now pointing fingers at us and laughing out loud.

Since it was getting late, and my daughter was hungry, the teachers had mostly left, there was no point waiting there. I didn't know who the boy was, which class did he study, what was his name - nothing. The vehicle had already passed so I couldn't even ask the driver or the lady inside the vehicle about the boy.

I came home, determined to talk about this to Mokshitha's teacher the next day. When we send our kids to school, we want them to be grown and shaped into confident individuals, good human beings, strong, and independent.

My daughter isn't even 3 years old yet. Is it right for anyone to speak such things to her when she doesn't even understand what bullying is? Or when she can't even stand up for herself? Is she even safe at school where we think she would be?

More than that, I was thinking about the boy. He must be hardly 5 yrs of age. And he speaks like this!!! What kind of environment is he being brought up in? Where is he learning such things? It will definitely not be the first time he might have done something like this. Doesn't his family observe? Don't they correct him?

Next day, I went to the school a bit early. Spoke about this incident to Mokshitha's class teacher and the school coordinator. Both of them were equally shocked. They promised me to look into the matter and assured me that my daughter will be fine, they'll take care.

And they did, I hope. I never saw that boy again peeping from the vehicle window whenever I went to pick Mokshitha up after that.

But, as they say, once Bitten, twice shy. I started talking about things like these to my daughter since that day.

I agree she is very small, might not even understand all this. But, it's better to prepare her for handling things like this when I'm not around to protect her.

It's very important to teach children when they begin school about dealing with bullies, good touch and bad touch, teach them some form of self defence when they are big enough, or to just let us know if someone or something is bothering them. We should always take aside sometime exclusive to talk to them, to make them feel that they are heard. It's important to build that trust in children that no matter what, Mumma papa will always be there for you. We should prepare them to face the world, and still have their backs whenever they need us. The world is not safe, but it's our responsibility to make sure that our kids are.

Has anything like this happened with you too? Pour in your comments, I would love to hear from all of you.

Till we meet again 😊
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