What do you do...

[Aliantha]

...when someone else's kid hurts your kid?

Yesterday my boys were playing footy out the footpath with the local kids like they do most afternoons after school. Unfortunately one of the bigger boys must have had too much red cordial and upended my youngest boy which resulted in a mild concussion and a lump on the head. After that, he shoved my older boy into the street which resulted in some pretty nasty gravel rash and bruising.

Today I went to see the offending boys parents who were very understanding and appologetic on behalf of their son and we've decided that footpath footy is now banned in our street.

This incident had a fairly good outcome really and there's no lasting damage at this point, so we should all be able to move forward as a neighbourhood without any carrying on between parents and kids. There have been other incidents which didn't end so favourably in the past for us and I'm curious to know how other parents cope with this sort of thing.