Mateo just got his first complaint the other day. When I brought him to school, his teacher showed me a letter from the grandmother of Mateo’s seatmate. According to the letter, the seatmate is complaining that Mateo is always disturbing him. The teacher asked me if I could just talk to Mateo about it as well.

When I got back to the car and told Ramil about it, I already knew that he would find it incredulous and funny. See, Mateo is currently with the Kinder class which means these are 4- and 5-year-olds. There are no other 3-year-olds except for Mateo while there are some who will even turn 6 within the year. Include the fact that Mateo is only average for his size and it would be easy to imagine him reaching only up to the shoulders or ears of his classmates. Somehow, we found it funny that a boy so much bigger than him would complain of being disturbed by our admittedly energetic but sometimes rambunctious boy.

So anyway, we talked to Mateo about it and we found out that his teacher transferred him to the blue table (he was previously with the green table) which we didn’t mind because according to him, he likes it better in the blue table (we noticed that he has a preference for the color blue). We gave him instructions ‘NOT TO DISTURB’ his classmates especially if they are doing something or if teacher is talking in front. We were even strongly tempted to tell him not to talk to the said classmate and to just ignore him, hehehe!