Outrageous!

A 5 year old was detained and questioned at his school for taking a toy gun to show his friend. He was so scared he wet his pants and his parents weren't notified until 2 hours into the questioning. He was suspended for 10 days, but it was reduced to the 3 days he had already served after the parents and others complained. The school stated that the situation was handled appropriately and would be handled in a similar manner in the future.

*Trigger Warning* Child Predator?!?!

I found out 2 days ago that a boy 13-14 who goes to our church got kicked out of church camp last year for making a younger student suck him off, and telling the kid that he would kill him and his family if he told. (Luckily the kid told his mom anyway). Also last year he was kicked out of school for inappropriate touching.

Transgender children

So I just learned that in my kids school district (my kids aren't in school yet my oldest will be starting kindergarten next September) there are twin boys who identify as girls. They are 5 years old. What's your opinions on this matter given they are 5!!! I don't believe that at that age they really understand the whole thing. So the entire school had to take a course on how to handle transgender children. For example they can't say girls go this or boys do that. What are...

How do you punish a 3 year old to stop hitting mama when he cant get his way ?

Summer Birthday and School

My son is 4. His birthday is in mid July. We are going to hold him in pre school one more year. Did any of you with school age kids do this, too? How have they done in school being older?