As you can tell by the last picture in this series, while I'm still a little traumatized by what happened, Elias is pretty much over the scratching attack that occurred toward the end of our make-up music class this morning. He and another boy about his age, as far as I could guess, were happily trying to break into the childproof lock on a t.v. stand in the room where the class meets when all of a sudden this other boy attacked Elias. I'm not sure if Elias pushed him or tried to interrupt something he was diligently working on (i.e. I'm sure there was some rational explanation...at least as rational as things get when you're 20 months old), but next thing I know this kid is downright attacking Elias - scratching at his face as if he were trying to claw his eyes out. It was unbelievable. I literally had to pull this kid off my son, yelling "stop" over and over again. Elias was fine after about 30 seconds of consoling, but I think the thing that upset me more (before I could tell just how badly he'd been scratched - the kid removed skin!) was the fact that the woman in charge of this kid (couldn't tell if she was his mother or nanny) didn't say a word! She didn't ask what happened, didn't offer up any apologies on the kid's behalf, nada. I mean, I understand things like this are bound to happen (although, naive as I may be, I'm still a little shocked that an under-two could be so brutally aggressive), and I don't exactly expect a 20 month old to say he's sorry, but I do expect the caregiver to say something. It takes a village...until your kid is the one who did something wrong and then we all ignore each other. Nice.
Needless to say we won't be visiting that class for any future make-ups. Today's make-up is actually for this week, when I'll be taking Elias to daycare to make up for the Monday holiday, but we missed last Friday unexpectedly when Elias woke up with a raging ear infection. Man, this kid just can't get a break! Despite all this and the fact that his beloved Daddy is out of town for much of the week, he's been in pretty great spirits the past couple of days, going incredibly easy on me yesterday and still working on an epic afternoon nap right now. It's like they know when there's only one parent around they can only be so difficult.
Guess I should wake this kid up if I want any evening time to myself!
1 comment:
Poor little guy! He is so adorable, though. I totally see you in him. He looks recovered. My kids have been both the attacked and the attacker at different times. I can't imagine not apologizing. That is so weird.
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