My 5 1/2 year old son the extortionist.
I'm a bit concerned about this and not sure how to handle it, whether it's a one ff thing, a passing phase or a portent of things to come I don't know.
he came home from school with a red eraser and told me his friend had given it to him.
My wife told me he had told her that he noticed another kid at school had two and he liked them and asked the kid for one but the other kid said no so my boy, chip off the old block, told the kid that if he didn't give him one he would tell the teacher and the teacher would confiscate both, so better to part with one and keep one than lose both.
Now, while I appreciate the intelligence of a 5 1/2 year old to come up with a scheme like that, it's nasty and evil, not to mention criminal.
I don't want to tell him that his mother had told me what he told her, and destroy his trust in mum, but I asked him about it tonight and he reiterated what he told me, that his friend had given it to him.
I said I was going to have a chat to mum about it.
Talk about panic, he came up with half a dozen different reasons I shouldn't talk to mum about it and looked a very worried boy when I left him to go to sleep and think about things.
I can't imagine where he would even get the idea to do something like that, let alone think it was ok.
We've always tried to teach him to be polite, kind, honest, sharing, charitable, helpful and a generally nice boy, not always with positive results but pretty good so far, where this little devil has come from I don't know.
Any ideas, thoughts or suggestions welcomed.
