‘Suddenly I was screaming back’
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Even the most patient mother gets a short fuse when their little darling is threatened. Because sure, it’s a dragon, but it’s mine.
Claudia (30), mother of Joris (4) and Tim (1):
“Joris is, I’m just saying, pretty rude. Like Popeye, my friend and I sometimes laugh, he doesn’t know his own strength. So Tim often walks with bruises because his brother has once again been swinging a toy too hard.
I have to pay close attention in the playground, because Joris manages to get sand in other children’s eyes when digging a hole. So if there is ever an uproar because of what he has done, I am always the one who immediately goes through the dust and calms things down. But my kid may be rude, but he’s not mean. Or dishonest.
Lower your tone, friend
So when he climbed the steps of the slide and was trumped by another child only to be accosted in a loud voice by that child’s father, I watched that scene with growing anger. That man was really yelling at him, I saw Joris shrinking further and further.
I walked towards it with big strides and before I knew what was happening I was shouting back. He kept his mouth shut in surprise, probably not used to seeing a five-foot-tall female rant at a six-foot-two man. Neither do I myself. But it did feel good.”
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We’re not going to
Lieke (35), mother of Sef (7):
“I also know: as a teacher you get overwrought when you have a class full of Sefjes. He’s a sweetheart, but he’s easily distracted, sits backwards, clowns around and talks loudly. The teacher sometimes has her hands full with it and we get to hear that in every conversation. So that the IB’er of the school was involved and that there was talk of ‘let’s look further’, I understand that.
“A kind of tsunami of anger and a sense of justice emerged”
But when the teacher casually mentioned that she was thinking about special education for Sef, something happened in me. A kind of tsunami of anger and sense of justice surfaced. ‘No one goes to special education here at all!’ I boomed through the Teams call with the school’s care team. Suddenly it was dead quiet. ‘Oh… okay,’ the teacher said. I never heard from her again. Sef is still at this school.”
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