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Well … I haven’t blogged.

I haven’t blogged because I couldn’t be arsed.

You know, I was thinking the other day … this is the most committed I have ever been to a single thing other than having my children or being with BN. And I’m not even sure they are in the context of blogging so actually I;m immediately discounting them.

This is the most committed I’ve been to a single thing. Ever. Ev-ah.

So - I won’t feel bad when there are a few days when I don’t feel like doing it. Because I always know I’ll come back to it.

And if you don’t see me for a few days? Do me a favour and gimme a nudge.

So.

Here I am … catching up.

It was a really nice weekend, weather wise and we had a great time enjoying the sunshine.

Nursery on Friday - Rowan came home from nursery and said that she’d been told off for telling Ella to say poo and wee.

The thing is… Rowan really has been instrumental in teaching Ella a lot of her vocabulary. They play this game where Rowan will say word after word after word and get Ella to recite them back at her…

‘Say tree, say car, say sky, say black and white, say dog, say cat, say house, say blue… ‘

With Ella repeating each word back at intervals… it’s really funny and very clever and it’s so obvious to see how Ella is such a talker when she has this undivided attention on a daily basis, teaching her the intricacies of our language.

‘No Ella! Not sit at the toilet, sit ON the toilet…’ something you would never expect to hear your 3 year old teaching your 1 year old… it’s impressive.

The funny thing is… this game always degenerates into ’say poo, say wee’

We think it’s pretty funny [we have a slight toilet tendency to our humour maybe] and have a little giggle with them and Rowan always gives a naughty little giggle because she’s well aware that it’s a bit cheeky.

However - we appear to be alone!

Rowan came back from nursery and said that she had been told off and made to ’sit down in soft play’ (a room with all the foam seating and play area) & then apologise because she told Ella to say poo and wee.

So… I was in two minds what to do about it.

We had a little talk with her about how poo and wee weren’t really bad words to say but that they weren’t exactly ‘play’ words … that some people might feel they were rude etc. etc. …. …. it’s so hard… but we really tried hard to help her understand the difference in how many people think.

Time and time again over the weekend and the start of the week it came back up in conversation again. She would mention how she had been told to go and sit down. We explained again that it wouldn’t be nice to say it in a mean way to someone and that you had to think about where you said it because it wasn’t exactly a non-rude word. Then this morning came the crunch for me. ‘I need a wee but I can’t say that can I mummy? It’s rude.’

I thought… hmmm.. I need to talk to nursery.

When I got there this morning. I explained all of the above and also explained that at home, Rowan and Ella are excluded when they’re in real trouble. They get sent to sit down and have a kind of time out and then have to come back and apologise for whatever they’ve done. I tried to get her to understand that Rowan had really taken this to heart and that we’d heard nothing but this all weekend.

The deputy manager is lovely and I really like her. She really seemed to take it on board and said that she would find out who had spoken to Rowan. I suggested that perhaps Rowan would respond better with an explanation from the person that told her off and also thought it would be good if this person understood that Rowan wasn’t saying it to be offensive, and that it was a funny game they played often and that we never told them off for.

Sorted?

Yah… not so much.

Rowan was at home tonight when I got back from work and I asked her if anyone had talked to her about saying poo. Yes. Karen did.

What did she say?

She said she had sat on Karen’s knee and Karen explained that saying poo was rude. Karen said that poo was not a word she could say at nursery….

WTF?

Was that what we discussed? No. [in case you didn't get that]

So now it’s become POO Gate.

I now have to go back on Friday and ask to talk to Karen and ask her what was actually said and explain to her that I don’t want my daughter to be told it’s rude to say poo. And if that’s not what she said, I have to explain that that is what Rowan has taken away from their chat.

OMG! I cannot believe we’re still talking about poo!

Filed under Random Rowan, daily babble