To have ‘hugged’ this 11 year old?

[meMillyme]

I?m a TA at a secondary school and also teach a few lessons of Art a week (I?m a qualified Art teacher too) today I was coming to the end of a year 7 lesson when another teacher came in and said a boy who should have been in my class went into hers accidently. He was very upset and thought he?d be in trouble.

I went outside and he was sobbing his little heart out :( I put my arm around him briefly to comfort him. The other teacher was present at the time.

I?m now worried I shouldn?t have done. Can anyone reassure me?

I find it so depressing that we have schools where distressed children cannot be given a quick hug or an arm on their shoulder - what a sad situation we find ourselves in :)

Luckily people use common sense-of course they hug.

Year 2 teacher here, I would have hugged.

I would expect that you were able to correctly read the situation and react appropriately, in this case, with a hug.

Fine.

Outraged. Is the quote Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published round the world -- even if what is published is not true
It's by Richard Bach (Jonathan Livingston Seagull).
Slightly less sinister undertones