Had a slightly weird interaction with another mum yesterday, but don’t know if I am missing something
In the park, my son (8) threw a stone, which hit a boy (maybe around 4) on the leg. I didn’t see this happen I was in front of my son, but as soon as it happened he came and told me what he did and what happened. I look at the family and their son is in tears, obviously hurt, and they are looking furiously at me. Which is totally understandable.
So after telling my son off, I say to him we need to go over there and you need to apologise for what you did.
So we go over,
My son - sorry
Her - nothing
Me - we’re sorry, my son did a really naughty thing
Her - what am I supposed to do with that?
Is that a weird reaction? I said - well nothing, it’s an apology, but there’s nothing more we can do to make the situation better. And I told her that my son had to own it and apologise.
She then was just going on about how he threw a stone, was showing me the stone. I was saying I know, hence we’re apologising.
So this just kept happening and we ended up just walking off.
Is that all a bit weird? I suppose was expecting her to be cross, to tell us off, but the whole dismissal of the apology really threw me off! What else should we have done? I left feeling really confused and wound up by the whole thing!