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What's the funniest, best, worst thing your DC has done on a school interview/playdate?
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not really, just very energetic and to the point above, not a good fit with the school!
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Was this for pre-school or a kindergarten interview? If kindergarten - completely inappropriate and your friend should be mortified.
[ Reply | More ]preschool. i guess kid was 2 at the time. and yes, she was completely mortified. but seriously, they are 2!
[ Reply | More ]What on earth was your friend doing when her kid did this? Parents STAY with 2 yo. Says more about her parenting skills than the kid's behavior, imo
[ Reply | More ]as i said above she was mortified. probably standing there horrified wishing for it to be over like we all are on those preschool things when/if our dc does someting "wrong". it is an odd, strange experience to take a 2 yo into a group setting like that and they generally tell you to stand back.
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best thing was my nephew, at intv for tt entry (he's 12). Asked what his favorite things / hobbies are, he replied: playing video games and watching TV. DOA commented on his 'refreshing honesty' to my sister afterwards. (PS: He got in, but was a sibling and plenty smart, so that helped).
[ Reply | More ]I know a kid who had an admissions essay question that was something like what would you do with a completely free day, or what have you wanted to try or something. He wrote that he would like to go to a shooting range and/or play paintball because his mother never lets them have toy guns in the house. This was for a Catholic school. He got in.
[ Reply | More ]OR: I love it. It's true, these two anecdotes describe healthy, normal, well rounded boys!!! Whou wouldn't accept them????!!! (biased loving aunt here). At the time though my sis was a bit worried as she wasn't sure how the DOA really meant that "refreshing" ..whether she was ruffled by his pedestrian response or not...
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Said, at circle time, she drank chocolate milkshakes for breakfast every day (really protein shake from healthfood store because she was SUCH a slowpoke of an eater in the morning).
[ Reply | More ]had an accident......of the poop variety. It was lovely let me tell you! I can laugh about it now, so that good, but it was not so funny then!
[ Reply | More ]JCC, teachers took out Brown Bear Brown Bear to read. This was after all this false 'fun' effort at "play". DC sat there with the juice cup in front of him, and burst into tears. Who could blame him. What on earth were we doing there? Who WERE these ppl? He had heard that story about 100 times before...and none of it, from the puzzles to the boring story, was fun. We were politely WL'd.
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waiting for the playgroup to start, my dc went around to all the others (they were given paper, books, crayons to amuse them while waiting) and started "correcting" their coloring/letters or reading the books their parents were trying to read to them. DH and I were mortified. It was very odd, as if DC thought this was a competition and he was trying to rattle or impress the others.
[ Reply | More ]For preschool my 2year-old dc reached out to a very well-endowed teaching assitant and after touching her breasts, exclaimed, "WOW what's in there?"
[ Reply | More ]Moving to NYC from out of town, we showed up late. When asked what other schools we were applying to, we said "none", and we didn't say that we were comfortable with our public option. So, we got an intro lecture on the competitiveness of NY private school admissions. Humiliating and didn't show us in a very positive light. WL, ultimately accepted.
[ Reply | More ]for a preschool playdate, our 2 year old was playing at the sand table and flicked a shovel full on the kid next to him. the teacher asked him to stop and he did it again. and again. my dh got up and removed him ... we were sitting in a corner and not supposed to intervene. polite wl that should have been a reject. btw, our ds is probably one of the best behaved kids in his preschool class now. the terrible two's were an awful time to do preschool playdates!
[ Reply | More ]At Friends ds kept asking when the playdate was going to start. When they eventually told him it was happening right now, he said "that's not true because the room is not like a classroom, it's boring, there's nothing fun to do and the grown-ups are not doing anything interesting, so it can't be a playdate". Feedback was "He did not have a good playdate" YA THINK!!!
[ Reply | More ]Funniest - preschool playdate, just turned 2 - walked into the classroom, went to a corner behind a chair and took a big, stinky dump in her diaper. Then she walked over to me, smiling, "Mommy, poopy." I took her to a bathroom, changed her and brought her back. She promptly walked over to another DC and swiped the toy he was playing with. I thought we were toast. She got in anyway.
[ Reply | More ]Beginnings playdate, many years ago. DC#1 was only 1.5 y.o., and I had just had DC#2 a few weeks before. DC#1 was so jealous she completely regressed, and spent the entire playdate crawling on the floor and babbling like a baby -- all the more humiliating because other kids were reciting colors and counting in Spanish to their adoring parents. We left thinking that we wouldn't want to go to any school that accepted a DC like ours appeared to be that day!
[ Reply | More ]Bribed ds to do Riverdale playdate; we had rented a car & everything. We get there & he refuses to get out of the car. I said (horrible!) "But u won't get any candy if you don't go." He thought about it, then "Ok. I won't have the candy." Good for him!
[ Reply | More ]Friend took DC to a playdate for PS applying as a very young 2. DC couldn't walk yet and she didn't want it to be used against her so she kept acting like DC was only playing around saying things like "she's so funny, not sure why she wants to crawl today!..."
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