My child (age 6) got in a lot of trouble with another parent recently in a playground. The playground is new beside school and it was only the second time I have been there. I couldn't see as I was watching my toddler and there was a structure in the way but apparently he threw a stick and the woman's child fell over it. She shouted at him very angrily and pointed in the direction of the park exit that leads to the road and he ran that way but thankfully hid in some bushes. I apologised, offered tissues (although the child was not crying or hurt). The woman left, I hadn't realised that my child had run in the direction she was pointing but I did end up finding him in the bushes. He was very scared. Someone afterwards told me in the playground that as she was leaving she said it wasn't the first time and that my son had thrown stones at her toddler (I don't know). Usually I am watching him closely unless I have to chase my toddler. I've never seen him do something like that and I was surprised to hear it. A lot of boys do play with sticks near the school but I haven't seen stones being thrown. When I asked him he said they been playing a game throwing stones on a different day but when the toddler came near they stopped. I don't know whether to believe him or not or whether what she said is correct. She has a child in a different class and I see her at school all the time but I don't know her. Because she left and my child was so upset I didn't get a chance to get him to apologise. At the time I was also very stressed because she had been gesturing towards the road exit and he ran that way....he told me several days later that all she had been shouting was go away and go to your mother but he ran the direction she was pointing - dangerous as he is fast at running. My question is whether to get him to apologise to her/her son when we see them again or just leave it. It is more the stone throwing thing I am concerned about now but I have no idea what to believe about that. The only time a parent ever came up to me in a playground previously about my son's behaviour was years ago and then in fact had been looking at their phone but believed what their child told them....I had been beside the incident and it wasn't my son's fault and the other child was lying but their parents believed them....this time I didn't see either incident properly and am going on the woman's word...my son was very scared by the shouting and I have not been able to get a coherent story out of him. So I don't know whether to get him to apologise - if the stone throwing thing is true that is awful and I feel strongly he should apologise but he seems confused and I don't know when it happened or if it did. I wrote another thread about this but it got nasty and now with new info I am asking again for advice.