Five-Year-Old Stories

Here's a question for you:

When do you talk to your child's teacher?

Yes, Zoë is in Kindergarten, and has just finished her first week and fourth day. She has regaled me with tales about kids calling her names, getting put into time out by the teacher because the teacher thought Zoë did something, "But I didn't!" She comes home today and said she didn't get snack "because the other kids were noisy- but they got a snack and I didn't."


So, my question: How much do you believe your 5-year-old and at what point do you go to the teacher?

Zoë has been known to exaggerate stories, and has been known to tell a fib or two. I don't want to rush to the teacher and be a freaked-out paranoid parent, and I do believe she needs to figure out consequences and rules and learn to navigate in the real world. YET, she's my little girl, in a new situation, and when she comes home starving because she didn't get a snack (remember, they eat "lunch" at 9:40 and she gets off the bus at 3pm!), the mama-bear comes out in me and wants some answers!

So, when do I go to the teacher?