Friday

Last Week Our son was playing in the playground after school, happily swinging on the suspended tyre. When a girl arrived and proceeded to swing it very fast, he wanted to get off, she wouldn't let him (i learn after) and he ended up bursting into tears...at which point i ran over and rescued him, just as the girl was calling him a "cry baby"...I'm ever aware that something can stick with you for ever at his age, so i took him back to the seat and had a word, told him that he should keep away from the "rough girl" and that he could see how dangerous she was being and he was very sensible to want it to stop...I had no idea who her parent was, and her parent it turned out was sitting almost next to me! She didn't say anything (she's one of them dippy born agains)... anyway yesterday our son was again in the park and so was the "rough girl".. and quite sensibly he kept well away. She however got on the tyre and spun it so fast all i saw was her exiting the tyre horizontally and landing with a mighty thud spread-eagled on the ground...I started to run to her but her mum (i now discovered who she was!) got there first, poor girl skinned both knees, elbows and her chin... she was checked out in casualty and was at school today fine... but Karma ah...