I forgot to tell you guys what happened when I picked up Mini-Mock from school yesterday.
When I got to his classroom, he saw me and as usual, jumped out of his itty bitty little chair where he was coloring and said, “Mommeeeee!!!!” and ran over to me. I put his jacket on him, and he said, “I want to hug one of my friends goodbye.” So I said, “Oh that’s sweet – ok which friend are you going to hug?” And the closest classmate was Emma, who happens to be the most adorable girl in his class. She’s the kind of 4 year old who is just impossibly pretty and always dressed in beautiful dresses and she has perfect hair and huge eyes and basically, I’m jealous of her. A FOUR YEAR OLD.
Anyway, he went up to Emma, who wasn’t facing him at the time, and touched her shoulder to get her attention. She turned, and he said, “Goodbye Emma!” and reached to hug her, and she not only didn’t accept his hug, she violently jerked AWAY from his hug, and ran.
Mini-Mock then ran to me, threw his arms around my neck, and started softly weeping. Rejected by a girl. At four years old.
It’s out of line to call Emma a bitch, isn’t it. But I’m telling you, that’s the first thing I thought. And then I calmly tried to explain to Mini-Mock that he was the sweetest boy ever and that it was mean of Emma to not accept his hug and that he shouldn’t NOT hug his friends just because she was mean, and that next time he should hug other friends who will hug him back.
I relayed this story to Daisy this morning, and she said, “You know what I would have said to Emma? ‘Listen, hon, you may need to take what you can get now, because when you get into high school, you’re going to have a fat ass and a pizza face and there’s no way a boy as cute as Mini-Mock will want to hug you. Good luck in therapy, sweetie.’”
Daisy’s got Mini-Mock’s back.






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