I'm late to the conversation and by now it's hard to tell if this is a quiestion about how to answer the quiestion on the application or how to best convince a pre-schooler to "use your words" when they're angry. �My guy usually hits me at the end of a very busy day when he has been told what to do all day long and he has had to keep up. �Usually when he hits me he'll say �"I told you to stop bothering me.". I get it, really I do, it's been a long day. �We've been over this. �If he hits or talks ugly I walk away and tell him "nobody wants to be around you if you're going to act like that.". �I've always responded to hitting �this way rather than slapping his hand because of all the reading about "natural consequences" I did when he was younger. �Hurting people has a very obvious natural consequence. �And he's taken the next step by himself recently. �Last time he said, "you're mad.". I said, "yes, when you hit somebody they get mad.". He said, "be happy Mamma.". I said, "when you hit someone it makes them mad, it doesn't make them happy.". I didn't give him the closure he was asking for, I left it unresolved as always. �These things can not be neatly wrapped up with an apology (which he hasn't figured out to try to offer yet in this situation). �I don't get a lot of the theory about "natural consequences" since it mostly has to be imposed by the parent the way I've seen it described, but this one I could be my all natural self. �If you hit/talk ugly people don't want to be around you. �I can walk away.�
I don't know about the application. �I read that the average starting age for the school is nine years old then haven't looked any deeper since. �I would assume they are asking the most reasonable interpretation of the question which no one is saying as "do you have the only living Buddah left on earth?". �So probably "grossly inappropriate" describes violence and harm as well as other behavior in this sentence. �
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Also I'm sure your kid is a sweetie. �As much love as you pour into her the child's probably pure love.
