You can't be serious. You're serious? Seriously?

The incident i'm going to write about actually occurred on Wednesday, but I've been so miffed that finally today I feel like I can write about it without being hateful towards a 3 year old.  I should start off by saying that Korean parents/adults are very nurturing towards their children and I mean very very nurturing...the tiniest scratch gets a bandaid...a bump on the head gets a full on 5-10 minute consoling session...the mention of a stomach ache gets everybody worked up in a tizzy.  This is hard for me being that I tend to support a more tough love approach.  Although I don't believe in coddling kids, I also don't believe in physically hurting children.  Duh. Specifically, I don't agree with pinching children...but this is exactly what i was accused of doing on Wednesday.  One of my lovely pupils decided to go home and tell her mother that i pinched her...not once...but twice during school on Tuesday...so much so that I made her cry.  Normally a child's imaginative story like this wouldn't even make me flinch...in the states it's pretty common knowledge that 3 year old kids make things up...not in Korea.  The idea that a child would fabricate such a thing is preposterous to parents here.  Not only did the mother of said child not believe that I hadn't pinched her kid...she also wondered if someone who pinches kids should be teaching in a kindergarten.  This is a genuine concern.  I don't think anybody feels good about a pinch happy kindergarten teacher, but i am not one of those crazed pinchers. I think the last time I pinched someone seriously was in the 3rd grade, so you can imagine how frustrating it was to be accused of this.  Along with the frustration, i'm supposed to go on acting like nothing is bothering me, when inside all i wanna do is call this 3 year old a liar and tell her to cool it or she's gonna get Lydia teacher fired.  Thankfully the principal was once a teacher...and after getting the little liar to admit she had fabricated the story she called the mother personally.  Unfortunately, the mother still believes her daughter is the victim in all this, but she wants to keep her in my class.  I'm glad it's all passed, but I'd be lying if I said I don't think about it every time I look at the little liars little face.