CCN - funny you should mention about your child having his opportunity to be the shinning star. When my son was two I was asked to keep him home on the day that an early childhood centre was being accredited by auditors. I was devastated. I had the opposite experience recently when two weeks ago, my son was the role model child. The short story is this. A parent had written a letter of complaint saying that my son was 'impulsive and violent'. So untrue. He is a boof-head 4 year old boy, but not violent by any stretch of the imagination. Anyway, at the same time I was sitting in the principals office hearing about my 'violent impulsive child who puts others at risk', there was a visitor to the early childhood centre. It was a young person with a disability who was in a wheelchair. This young persons parent wrote a letter to the centre, and personally named my child (no other child was mentioned in the letter), stating that she was pretty amazed at my son's ability to wait, despite it being obvious that he was bursting to ask a question. And, do you know what the question was? Every other kid asked questions like 'how do you get out of bed', etc. My son asked if he could give this young person with a disability a cuddle. Doesn't sound like violent and impulsive child does it? He certainly was the role model child that day!
