Oh gosh….what a dram some adults seem to make over things.
My brother was 7 years old and had spent 2 years in the same class as this little girl Carlene. Carlene and my brother we best friends and and would wait for each other in the mornings and then go into class together. They would sit on the mat while the teacher read them stories and they would hold hands. At lunch time they sat together and ate lunch and they played games together at lunchtime. After school they would walk out the school gate holding hands. They were so darn cute. I was 11 and remember thinking how cute they were and how lucky they were to have such a wonderful friendship. Parent Teacher night came around and my Mum went to the school to check on our progress. Mum returned home furious and at the same time dumbstruck as after Mums interview had finished the teacher informed her that Carlenes Mother had asked for the appointment jsut before Mums and she wished to speak to her and would be waiting outside the class room. Mum figured that she might want to get the kids together for a play date but Mum was soon be struck dumb when Carlenes Mum asked her what she planned to do about my brother. Ha??? She informed Mum that she felt things were becoming way too serious between her daughter and my brother. Mum wasnt quite sure if she was 100% serious so kind of laughed it off which resulted in Carlenes Mum storming off in a fury. A week later she had removed Carlene from the school and put her into an all girl school. My brother was in tears over the loss of his best friend and it took him sometime to settle down. Ive often wondered how Carlene coped.
I find it rather concerning that someone would act in such a way over the innocent friendship for 7 year olds.

Its just apart of being a kid and growing up thinking about how much you want to be an adult

interesting how the world is changing!

We started personal hygiene (periods, pads, tampons etc) in year 5 as we had a lot of people that had already “blossomed”, which led onto sex ed. Why can we do that but not build a relationship!?!?!?

I think all of this concern over children having “girlfriend & boyfriend” relationships is ridiculous. How on earth are young children going to learn about emotional issues if they are forbidden to experiment. We are taking the innocence out of childhood by placing ADULT level status to something that is natural and positive.

As a parent I think that knowing your child is capable of demonstrating a caring emotion for other humans, aside from immediate family, is a good thing. Restricting this, by placing a ban on it at school, would send the message that showing loving feelings and sharing a happy time with a person of the opposite sex is BAD or HARMFUL. As the friendships come and go, sometimes within the same 24 hrs, children learn to cope with the highs and lows if life. It’s a natural progression…like crawling to walking, babbling to talking.

I think we must prepare to have a lot of socially inept and emotionally unbalanced teenagers to deal with in a few years if this pressure is put on children in their early learning years.

Oh please what next? Children’s innocence is being destroyed by adults opinions as to what is deemed appropriate and what is not. A little school yard crush, holding hands in line, its all just part of being a kid just like scrapping your knees and bruised shins, perhaps more focus on providing education by the principle would be more beneficial?

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  • • yyon4699 replied
    • 15 Feb 2014 , 10:11 am

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  you literally just pull words outta my mouth! So true!

haha good luck with that!

There is no harm in little school yard crushes. I had many of them when I was younger.

what a load of crap. I had a “boyfriend” from grade prep and it was nothing but just some silly kiss chasy at lunch time, Im ok I think lol