Bunking off

on Aug 24 in General by

The Hughes are rebelling. Over the past couple of weeks it’s become increasingly obvious that Amy isn’t enjoying nursery very much any more. There are a few reasons for this, but the main ones are that all her friends are now in the big room and her Key Worker recently got promoted to manager. This has all left her feeling a bit isolated. When asked this evening what she had done at nursery she said “played on my own” in a very dejected voice. We’ve had reports that she’s been a bit tearful on occasion, which up until now has been unknown.

Her behaviour at home has recently become a little troublesome. We’ve had to resort to confining her to her bedroom a couple of times this week due to various misdeeds. We didn’t have to resort to any keel hauling as suggested by Paul, but I don’t deny I was a little tempted by his other suggestion of naughty chair, then naughty step, then naughty snooker ball in a sock. Of course this bad behaviour could all be due to the normal growing up process, but I suspect the fact that it coincides with this difficult period at nursery must be at least partially significant.

So as I say, the Hughes family are rebelling. As I’ve previously mentioned on this blog Amy moves up to the big room shortly; a week on Monday to be precise. So we’ve decided that she’s going to play hooky until it’s time for her to go up a class. We’ve had to rearrange a few things here and there, but we should be able to do it without seriously disrupting either Kerry or my job’s. If you think that keeping our daughter home for a week of nursery that we’ll still be paying for is a bit of an over-reaction, you should know that my initial reaction to hearing that Amy had been crying while she was there was to resign from my job and become a 9-5 professional daughter cuddler.

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