A few months ago Brad and I were watching this show on PBS about a Preservation Habitat in Africa. The rangers were perplexed because some of the (endangered) young rhinos were coming up dead. They first thought that it was poachers and they thought it was another wild and ferocious animal. It turns out it was young elephants who strangely turned all mean and decided to terrorize the Habitat. These young elephants were pretty much able to go about their business and weren't originally reason for suspect because elephants typically don't act in such a agressive and unnatural manner.
Well yesterday this mama lion witnessed her young being terrorized for the last time. I have mentioned several times about a certain girl in the neighborhood who runs around like the young elephant. She was being her usual self (agressive, unnatural) so I grabbed my shoes and marched out to confront the attack. The elephant scrambled up a tree when she saw me coming. She knew she was busted. I roared:
How Old are you?
Elephant: no response
Lioness: HOW OLD ARE YOU?!
Elephant: 8
Lioness: How old is Abbie?
Elephant: I don't know
Lioness: She's 5, 5 -3 years younger than you. My house is right there and I saw everything that you did. I see everything you do. I know about the horrible mean things you do to other kids on the block and it stops now. You must BE NICE, do you understand stop being SO MEAN!
Elephant: Abbie is mean.
Lioness: I will deal with Abbie later, I'm talking to you and I'm telling you to BE NICE can you do that? BE NICE?! Because I see everything you do.
Elephant: nods her head.
Lioness grabs her cub and heads home. I'm feeling like a mama bad a**. Cub reports "The Elephant" makes me all sweaty and hot. I tell her that is what stress does to your body sometimes. I will work with my cub to get her to forgive and forget and be as nice as she can to the elephant so the elephant has no reason to be such a hater. In the meantime I am glad if the elephant is afraid of one lion on the block.
Did I handle the situation correctly? Probably not-but maybe it was the right thing to do right now. I'm planning on a nicey nice meeting with the elephants parentals real soon.
Well yesterday this mama lion witnessed her young being terrorized for the last time. I have mentioned several times about a certain girl in the neighborhood who runs around like the young elephant. She was being her usual self (agressive, unnatural) so I grabbed my shoes and marched out to confront the attack. The elephant scrambled up a tree when she saw me coming. She knew she was busted. I roared:
How Old are you?
Elephant: no response
Lioness: HOW OLD ARE YOU?!
Elephant: 8
Lioness: How old is Abbie?
Elephant: I don't know
Lioness: She's 5, 5 -3 years younger than you. My house is right there and I saw everything that you did. I see everything you do. I know about the horrible mean things you do to other kids on the block and it stops now. You must BE NICE, do you understand stop being SO MEAN!
Elephant: Abbie is mean.
Lioness: I will deal with Abbie later, I'm talking to you and I'm telling you to BE NICE can you do that? BE NICE?! Because I see everything you do.
Elephant: nods her head.
Lioness grabs her cub and heads home. I'm feeling like a mama bad a**. Cub reports "The Elephant" makes me all sweaty and hot. I tell her that is what stress does to your body sometimes. I will work with my cub to get her to forgive and forget and be as nice as she can to the elephant so the elephant has no reason to be such a hater. In the meantime I am glad if the elephant is afraid of one lion on the block.
Did I handle the situation correctly? Probably not-but maybe it was the right thing to do right now. I'm planning on a nicey nice meeting with the elephants parentals real soon.
Comments
Sounds like you handled it just fine since you had been hands off until now - sometimes, don't you just say to yourself, I can't believe i'm a grown up and i have to deal with these things.
-shannan
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