Well That Was Awkward

Despite our love of our current daycare, we've been a bit dismayed lately with how aggressive one of the other kids has been with her; i.e. pummeling her on a regular basis. While the one parent (our daycare is run by a couple) intervenes often, we've watched the other Not intervene more than often, and well, that's not good. We rehearsed and rehearsed with her one weekend to tell her the things she could say when the pummeling/aggressive behavior began, i.e. "I don't like that" or "Please stop." This way she could feel empowered rather than us intervening on her behalf. Monday arrived, and when we went to drop her off that morning, the pummeling started almost immediately in front of Pete and I. We pulled her aside and said, remember what we talked about? Remember the things you can say? And our daycare provider had a good chuckle and said, Uh, you know Lucia beats the crap out of (said kid) every day, right?

Um. Awkward. So uh, we changed our tune with Lucia to ehm, also remind her that maybe beating up said kid is uh, not the best thing to do either.