Just when I think I have this parenting thing down....reality comes into play.....Yesterday after school Ezekiel came home to tell us he had gotten a "ticket" from school....(a ticket is what they get for not following the rules, such as talking when you're not supposed to ect.)..First of all, I couldn't believe that my little boy got a ticket the first week of school! What he got it for is even more disheartning....He pushed a kid, and a girl at that! She was in his spot, and he pushed her! Later last night we got a call from a friend, and another students mother, saying she heard from a different teacher that our son was involved in a physical fight...an on the ground all out fighting fight!! So, I freaked. Robert called his teacher to find out what had happened, and she called the aid that seen it happen, and the aid called us, saying it wasn't that big of a deal, that Ezekiel pushed her, and she just happened to fall down, and she got up and pushed him back....that they are just learning the rules, and there are 60 kids out there playing at one time, and if they had been in first grade, then would have been sent to the office, but since they are in kindergarten, they feel it wasn't necessary....and she told us that he shouldn't even be punished at home, that's how little of a deal it was....so thanks to the faculty that felt the need to gossip about my child to another students mother, and getting me worried that my kid was a bully!!! It still doesn't make it right that he felt it was ok to push another child.....parenting a school age child is gonna be harder than I thought!!