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So, I was at the little playground in the mall today...
And some little girl wound up and slapped Alex in the head when he reached the bottom of the slide. Apparently, she just decided to sit down there and he bumped her when he came down.
I was pissed, b/c I saw it happen, and DH started heading over in case it was going to escalate, but her parents came right over, scooped her up and told her that it was time to go because she hit. Alex just looked a little confused and stood there in front of her.
I immediately softened up. Alex wasn't upset, and I applaud the totally appropriate parenting. All's well that ends well, though, but man, at first I was about ready to deck her myself in Alex's defense. 
Re: So, I was at the little playground in the mall today...
I would have said something to the parents, definitely. I won't parent someone else's children, but I'll definitely speak up to the parents if another child smacks/bites/abuses etc. any of my kids and I see no sort of discipline form said child's guardians. I would never let Alex do that without some form of punishment.
Fortunately, in this case, I think the parents did exactly what I would have done.
well, I'm sure auntie sassy is the best one to teach him that one
And Amye, I was pretty much just going to say, "I wanted to let you know that your daughter just slapped my son upside the head. I figured you must have not seen it since you haven't approached her, but I know that if my son ever slapped anyone, I would want to know so that I could teach him how to behave correctly with other children."
Not verbatim, of course.
But something along those lines, just to get my point across.
Well, Brendan laid some slaps on top of Ben's head and made him cry! ?So I kicked the crap out of Sam in retaliation.
Truth: It was light taps, Ben cried cause he was overtired and I only WANTED to kick the crap out of Sam- I didn't actually do it.
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But srsly, that's really nice to hear that the parents did something! ?Poor Alex.?