Smart little cookie…..

Last night Ashton went to swimming lessons and she must have gotten water in her ear, past her gromits on her right side.  Either that or she is getting another ear infection which means her gromits have fallen out AGAIN….  Anyway, last night when we went out for dinner for my birthday, she was in a lot of pain, saying her right ear was really sore and she literally cried all the way home.  Once we got home, I dosed her up with Painstop and gave her a heat pack and she layed her sore ear on the heat pack and was asleep in <5min I reckon.

This morning she woke up and she said it was still a bit sore, felt a bit “bubbly” and things are a bit muffled.  She still wanted to go to school.  I can’t see why she should stay home if she isn’t really sick and she is wanting to go to school.  So I went and told the teacher she may be a little quiet today and not able to hear too well, and if it gets any worse I will come and pick her up….

Anyway this is where the smart cookie bit comes into it…..

While I was waiting for the teacher to arrive, I was outside Ashtons class room and all the boys in her class were mucking around as boys do.  Anyway they started chatting to me and one of them said “Do you know that Ashton is the SMARTEST in the whole class?”  (she is in a split yr 2-3 class) And then all the other boys started talking about how smart she was, and how she is smarter than them and they are in year 3….  Well then all the girls started in on the conversation also…  BUT its funny how bitchy girls are.  They started making exceptions “She isn’t the SMARTEST in the class but she is the SMARTEST year 2″  or “She is pretty smart but so am I” or “She is pretty smart and can read well but there are others who are just as smart”.  All the while, poor Ashton is shrinking back into me more and more, groaning with everyone discussing her.  So I pointed out that it doesn’t really matter who the smartest is in the class, just as long as you give everything your best shot.  They all agreed and thankfully the conversation stopped there but still the boys turned to me and said “She really is the smartest in the class though.”

I just found it funny that the boys were OK with saying she was the smartest, but the girls got very defensive and had exceptions.  Bitchiness really is learnt from an early age.