Yesterday, we had nine kids running around the museum in a pack

[conuly]

Should have been 10, but one of the older ones left her baby sister at home with Dad. This irritated me, because I'd count heads and come up one short and worry.

At the end of the day, we're playing with one of the kids, whose name is *very* unusual and which I won't bother spelling out for you, let's call her C. (I don't mind using names when they're fairly common, but this one isn't even remotely.)

And Ana at one point goes up to C's mother and tells her "C just hit me in the stomach".

Now, I have to ask - why C's mother and not me? Just because? Or because I'm going to ask "Why did C hit you in the stomach?" before even getting up?

So C's mother goes over to talk to her, and Angelique is sitting next to her, and she does ask why she'd do such a thing, but C is only three and all she could get from her is "Ana was being a bad person" and after hearing that twice she gives C a time-out.

And I wait until C is safely time-outted (no sense interrupting the proceedings) and then ask Angelique the question I'm dying to know the answer to... "Why did she hit you?"

"Oh. I was just playing! See, I told C that I didn't like her and she wasn't my friend anymore, but, Connie, I was just pretending!"

....

I told Angelique she should say sorry the second C was out of time-out, that C probably didn't think she was pretending and even then it's not very nice, and then informed C's mother, who immediately let her off time-out. And all was good again. For now.

Comments

[conuly]

Quite possibly. Or she said it to be mean and then backtracked is the only other option, I don't know, but the way it came out, I don't think that's it.