This evening after school I saw an older man (probably grandad) lifting a girl (5yrs ish) by the hand to cross the road. Woman (probably grandma) was holding other hand and struggling to keep up.
It wasn’t a ‘weeeee’ situation, the girl had been crying whilst waiting for lights to go red/green man. And the man looked really angry.
I turned after they went past so I could see if I’d read the situation correctly and I think I had because the man let go once over the road and strode ahead angrily.
I could hear the girl upset, saying that he had hurt her to the woman.
My DD was like, eyeroll, what are you doing standing there? And I said, I’m wondering what I can do/say to help that girl. Ideas running through my mind were along the lines of signposting the woman/grandma to somewhere. But I didn’t know where, and I didn’t think it would directly help the little girl. The more I stood to think, the closer they got to the man/grandad anyway so I missed my moment.
I thought, I’ll ask MN when I get home what I could’ve done, if anything.