My student Sofya called me: her son Seryozha, he is 5,5 years old, in the kindergarten group, two girls began to call names. Seryozha has blond hair, the girls run up to him, point their fingers at him, cackle: “Sour cream! Sour cream!» — and run away. He keeps calm, he knows the “So what?” technique, but the girls do not listen to him: they ran up — called them names, poked their fingers, chuckled — ran away. And so many times a day. He approached the teacher, she sighs and says: “Deal with it yourself!”. And now he told his mother everything with the end: “Mom, I don’t want to go to kindergarten. What are they teasing about?»
Mom calls me.
I thought, here’s what I came up with. If Serezha were my son, I would teach him the following.
“Tomorrow, find a good strong stick in the group. Will you find it? — I’ll find it. We do physical education with such sticks! — Fine. Take this stick and go to the teacher again. Tell her this: “Maria Vasilievna, tell the girls not to come up to me and not call names. They piss me off a lot. And if once again they come up to me and call names, I take this stick or the nearest chair and I will just beat them. But I don’t want that to happen, so you tell them to get off me and don’t call names!».
Next, you need to: 1) learn this text well, 2) teach your son to hold a stick tightly, and 3) explain that the main thing here is not to hit, but to scare. Therefore, you can wave the stick only in front of you and below, in any case below the knees. You can go out into the yard and practice on the bushes.
And I told this idea to my mother: “I believe that in this case the teacher will react instantly and the issue will be resolved without options!”.
Will it work or not? Don’t know. In fact, the weakest link here is mom. It is usually difficult for mothers to decide on such experiments, and I thought that Sophia would refuse such an offer. Unexpectedly, Sophia liked this idea, she promised her son to teach all this and tell him what would come of it.
I’m waiting for the results.
And you, dear readers, can you conduct such an experiment? Will it work or not?