Fire Breathing Bullies

They must be learning about bullies at daycare; tonight at dinner Toby solemnly announced that no one hits at daycare. He then clarified that if you hit someone it meant you were a bully. He THEN went on to explain that he knows this because yesterday he SAW a bully and it had sharp teeth and claws and FIRE coming out of his nose and that if the bully ever caught him he would get SQUISHED.

As you can imagine, this description was told with the appropriate dramatic flare complete with sound effects and actions.

I get the point and (more importantly) apparently HE gets the point; bullies are bad. In fact, in his three year old world it doesn’t get much worse; a few weeks ago they learned about dinosaurs and poor T Rex has NOTHING on these terrifying bullies.

I suspect the mere THREAT of being named a bully will put a dramatic end to all hitting at daycare. If only it were capable of eliciting a similar reaction in 13 year olds…