Emotions

    My nanny is back and so my life goes back to normal. Specially my cyberlife.

    Yesterday I reviewed my preschool daughter for a quiz in Reading and Phonics. The topic is "identifying emotional reactions", her worksheets which look like a quiz also but probably with a lower grade credit were sent home. It did not bother me that my daughter got a score of 11 /15 in one test. What bothered me was why she got that score.

Item # 8 goes "Andy made this very nice drawing. His baby brother saw his drawing and tore it into pieces. How will Andy feel?"

A. happy

B. sad

C. angry

D. surprised

My daughter's letter B answer was marked wrong so I figured Andy should be angry. Item #14 goes "Jaja has a pet fish. Her mother forgot to turn on the oxygen tank of the aquarium after cleaning it. The fish died. How will Jaja feel?

    Mad                        Sad                            Surprised

This time my daughter's Sad answer was marked correct. My point is - Should Andy really be angry because his baby brother tore his drawing? Operative word -baby - the brother didn't know what he was doing. Isn't Andy allowed to be just plain sad? What about Jaja? Isn't she allowed to be mad because her mother was the underlying cause of the fish's death? What are we teaching the future generations here? That you should be angry when someone younger than you commits misdeed but if the culprit is someone older you just have to be sad.

    That is…. sad.