Oscar: ‘Hitting each other is not very nice, is it mama?’
Me: ‘No, it isn’t.’
Oscar: (nodding sagely) ‘Yes, because it hurts a lot.’
Me: ‘Yes, it does.’
Oscar: ‘And when me and T were having an egg and spoon race at nursery and we stopped to have a fight and we threw the spoons at each other’s heads, that really hurt a lot. So you must not do it. And Donna told us off.’
Me: (stifling laughter by putting hand over my mouth and making big owl eyes. Don’t ask me why, it works) ‘Well, quite. That is one of the main reasons to eschew violence.’
The wages of sin are death, and spoon shape bruising to the forehead.
Empirical fact.
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However, if you can hit first and run fast . . . ? Not my philosophy but younger son’s. It took quite a while to convince him that it was not a good thing even if x,y or z did deserve it because they hit somebody else who didn’t or couldn’t stand up for their self! My son, the champion of the oppressed, in the playgroup naughty corner.
Sharon
Well, it has a kind of logic to it.
Marvellous. Truly.
homeofficemum
He has a point. And a bruise.