WHAT? The teacher was taking the class down the hall and he and my d had to finish something in the room first.
I don't want to overreact but this seems abnormal for a 4th grader to say naked, but mean something else. She told him that was gross and to stop saying that word. When my d reacted badly, he said he meant something else. What do you think?
He probably heard it on TV and since the guy got the girl he thought it would work. Clearly it did not. I would imagine the child now knows that only happens in the movies. :(
He meant exactly what he said. You need to notify the teacher immediately and demand the parents be notified as well so the situation may be handled properly. Pat your daughter on the back for handling it well and let her know it was not right and to notify the teacher next time immediately. There's tattling and then there's doing the right thing.
K. B
M. to 5 including triplets
something like this happened to a friend when we were in grade school. there was a school science fair and my friend was nervous about presenting. her mother told her - and i'm sure quite a few of us have heard this - to picture everyone in the audience naked and she wouldnt be so nervous. she said to a couple classmates "if we were naked we wouldnt be nervous" and all hell broke loose when they told their folks. she didnt mean it in a bad way. hopefully, he didnt either....
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I would tell my daughter "great job!" and let it go. I have a 4th grade daughter. "Naked" is a favorite word in her age group... Unless something more happens between this boy and your daughter, to get school and parents involved is overreacting, IMO.
He probably did mean it but kids will be kids. They will do and say all types of stuff. If he keep on saying things like that to your daughter, then I would say something to the teacher
At my nephew's school (he's in 5th grade) this would be considered sexual harassment, they have a very strict no tolerance policy.
Its so easy to misintrepret what was said.
I like Wendy H's answer.
Good luck to you and yours.
It is strange out of context -- I would want to know more about what they were doing and really what he meant. Partly because I have a very head-trippy daughter who might say something like that, we had a whole thing the other day about what if birds are people, or something equally out there.
See my most recent question. Get the whole story before making any assumptions.
