Had a call from a mother of a boy in same class as ds. She says that "a third party whose name I won't disclose" informed her that my son had kicked her son at school.
She was quite het up and talked at length about how "obviously as john's (not his real name) mother I do not want hom to be kicked at school..." And that this was a courtesy call to let me know she is making a complaint to the school.
The boys are 5.
I said okay, I see uh huh mmm hmmm but stopped short of actual conversation saying I didn't get involved in children's school squabbles.
Tbh I was a bit taken aback to be phoned by a parent I didn't know in a flap about an incident of which I knew nothing.
I felt like saying, "you don't ring other kids parents to complain, that's not how it works. You talk to the school." But I didn't.
Afterwards I spoke to my son who said there was a game in which you had to run after each other and try to kick them. There were 5 of them. He seemed unaware a. that it was not a great game and b. that it hadn't ended well and mystified about john's complaint.
Of course we talked about kicking having no place in games or anything else really.
Do I need to do anything else?