{"id":561,"date":"2009-02-06T13:51:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T13:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2009\/02\/06\/advice-about-women\/"},"modified":"2009-02-06T13:51:34","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T13:51:34","slug":"advice-about-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2009\/02\/06\/advice-about-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice About Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may remember my four-year old’s game of “Chase the Girls.” If not, click here<\/a>. From what I’ve learned since then, it’s a game that his whole class plays. The boys chase the girls for a while, and then the girls chase the boys.<\/p>\n

This morning, as I was lying in bed trying to not let him wake me up, he started talking about it.<\/p>\n

“I don’t like Julie,” he said. [Author’s Note: Julie is not the girl’s name. I picked the name Julie because as far as I know there are no girls in his class named Julie.]<\/em><\/p>\n

I sat up. “Really? Why’s that?”<\/p>\n

“She’s mean.”<\/p>\n

“Why do you say that?”<\/p>\n

“At the playground, when we’re playing chase the girls, she knocks me over!” He gestured dramatically with his arm, showing me how she knocks him over.<\/p>\n

“Hmmm.. Maybe she doesn’t want to play. Maybe you shouldn’t chase her?”<\/p>\n

“I don’t!” He shouted. “I start playing with the other girls, and then she runs and knocks me over! She’s just mean!”<\/p>\n

“Oh,” I said. “I don’t know what to do about that.”<\/p>\n

When this little event happened, I was thinking that it was a budding romance. The more I think about it, though, the more I think it might be a classroom bully. <\/p>\n

So here’s the question:
Should I
 a) Teach the little guy how to defend himself
 b) Tell him to talk to her
 c) Tell him to tell the teacher about it<\/p>\n

What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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