I live in a small town in Germany, where it's quite usual for kids to be at the local playground on their own. I was with my DD1 (8) and toddler. DD1 found some girls she knew & went off to play. I was left minding DD2 and watching what else was going on.
There were some boys there on their own who I recognise from various places and they were being quite rough. I started paying more attention then realised that two of the boys had ganged up on a third boy. The third one is in DD1's school class, and she has said that he has no friends & that people are mean to him.
I hadn't caught who started it, but I saw that the unpopular boy was trying to spit at the other two, who were by now on the two swings. The two then decided they should swing higher, so that when they spat they would have a higher chance of landing a bullseye. At this point I intervened & said in my best German to the boy I know better (who was on the swing) that I didn't think what they were doing was very nice and they should stop. It did work to some extent (they moved on to sticks, but that was more fair & less disgusting, in any case) but it just bothered me.
My questions are: I don't know anything about boys, so was I right to have said something? (I guess in the UK the parents would also usually be around, so this might not arise?)
Is there anything more I should do? Is it my duty to speak to the mother of the boy I know better?
What else could I/ should I do to help this poor boy? I don't know his mother at all, but, I know his teacher.
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To have told these children off in the playground
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Rabenmother · 19/05/2016 13:12
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