If your DS/DD had gone swimming with friends --- and one of them had held your DS/DD head under the water so they couldn't breathe .........
What would you do when they came home to tell you?
DS is 10 years old and went to a swimming party on Saturday
There were 10 children all class 6 {some 11 years old}
The parents didn't sit near the pool but were in a cafe on the balcony
but the pool did have lifeguards it was a public pool and so had other children as well
Anway, DS had been playing with 2 friends and had tickled one of them {drew} - which had irritated him
And then drew swam away and ds played with greg
ds and greg swam in differnet directions
then greg and drew were splashing togehter and ds swam up to them and greg swam away
AND THEN DREW GOT HOLD OF DS AND HELD ONTO HIS HEAD {drew is quite alot taller and bigger than ds} AND PUSHED HIS HEAD UNDER THE WATER AND HELD IT THERE
DS COULDN'T BREATHE AND WAS STRUGGLING TO GET OUT OF THE HEADLOCK {drew could touch the bottom of the pool easily but ds could only just touch the bottom}
EVENTUALLY DS GOT AWAY AND WENT TO THE SIDE OF THE POOL WHERE 3 OF THE GIRLS WERE AND HE WAS COUGHING AND SPLUTTERING AND THEY COMFORTATED HIM {but they had not seen what had haoppened and he didn't want to tell on drew}
SO ANYWAY HE DIDN'T TELL ANYONE AND DREW WOULDN'T APOLOGISE COS HE SAID DS WAS ANNOYING HIM - WHICH DS ADMITS HE WAS TICKLING HIM
BUT IMHO TICKLING AND HOLDING SOMEONE'S HEAD UNDER THE WATER ARE TOTALLY DIFFERENT
So ds comes home and won't tell us what has happened and in the end we get him to write it down - he is so upset and then tells us the whole story.
I phone greg mum to ask if he saw what drew did and he didn't.
The next day DH rings drews dad to tell him and to say that DS wants drew to apolodise
so on monday drew doesn't apologise, yesterday ds had his exams and is back to school today
DO YOU THINK WE DID THE RIGHT THING IN TELLING DREWS DAD ???
WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE ??
WOULD YOU BE ANNOYED THAT THE PARENTS WERE IN THE CAFE NOT NEAR THE POOL ???
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