4 -year-old Accused of Improperly Touching Teacher

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Thread: 4 -year-old Accused of Improperly Touching Teacher

Aenlic 23:29 12-08-2006

Originally Posted by doc_bean:
Some people don't like to be hugged/touched, it's inappropriate to touch people in certain places because they don't like it, etc.

I'm not saying you have to use big words, but kids need to learn that they have to respect other people's feelings.

Although the teacher does sound like a crackpot to me...

Kids, especially at that age need human contact and not impersonal authoritarian behavior. I'd suggest that the problem in this situation, the teacher's aid, is in an entirely inappropriate occupation - being around children - if she doesn't want to be hugged or touched. Instead of blaming the child, let's place the onus where it belongs.

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