Katie is a nice kid. She is.
When we are around other kids, all Katie wants to do is play with them. She doesn't even have to know them at all. She just gloms onto their little group and tries to play whatever they are playing. She even tries to engage them in conversation about the game in the hopes that she can join in the fun.
Most of the time they completely ignore her and end up either continuing their game or running away from her.
Today, we were at playgroup. Katie only sees these kids once a week, if at all. A few of the kids attend a toddler group (kinda like our co-op preschool) together and a few don't. So, some of these kids that hang out together have kind of formed a little clique.
Two of the girls were playing a game where they were going into a room, turning off the lights and pretending to go to sleep. Katie wanted to play too.
She followed them into the room and this is what I heard from one of the girls, "GET OUTTA HERE! Get out. WE are TRYING to go to sleep. GET OUTTA HERE. No, YOU can't sleep too. GET OUT!"
Then I heard the door slam. I looked over and Katie was standing outside the door on the verge of tears and said, "But, I wanna sleep too" in the most discouraged and sad voice, like, ever.
I walked over and opened the door calmly explaining to the girls that they should not shut the door because other people wanted to play in that room (it was where all the toys were). What I REALLY wanted to do was to pick up the two girls and body slam them, or at least kick them really hard.
I guess I have to get used to this. Katie will figure out on her own that when she's snubbed she can move on to something else and not bother trying to play with people that don't want her around. For cripes sake, I learned how. Not many girls want to run around and pretend to fight COBRA. So, I found friends that did.
It's just hard to watch your kids heart broken without feeling like YOU should be breaking a little something, like maybe an arm or two.
