today's post brought to you by...
...the letter K for "karate."
When I got to the childcare center to pick up Chipsie and Miss Cake after work on Wednesday, everyone asked me if they'd called me about Cake getting punched.
I went to her room first (normally I get Chipsie and then follow her into the school-age room to "find Big Sissy"). Cake was nursing her jaw while one of the teachers held some ice to her face.
Apparently, one of the boys was hitting Cake's friend. She stepped in the middle of the fracas and said, "You don't want to mess with me! I know karate!"
When she turned around to help her friend away, her elbow accidentally hit the kid. So he hauled off and hit her in the face. Of course, he made a direct hit on her tooth spacer. Neorxnawang took her to the dentist that evening to get the spacer put back in and tightened.
Her face wasn't bruised, but her pride was. She'd been to a martial arts demonstration with her big brother and sister the week before, and she broke two boards. (We were speechless when she brought them home!) She didn't realize that she couldn't handle the problem herself until it was too late.
So what did we learn?
1. She doesn't REALLY know karate.
2. She needs to find an adult if this ever happens again.
3. The dentist will drop everything for a kid "in crisis." Thank you, dentist!
When I got to the childcare center to pick up Chipsie and Miss Cake after work on Wednesday, everyone asked me if they'd called me about Cake getting punched.
I went to her room first (normally I get Chipsie and then follow her into the school-age room to "find Big Sissy"). Cake was nursing her jaw while one of the teachers held some ice to her face.
Apparently, one of the boys was hitting Cake's friend. She stepped in the middle of the fracas and said, "You don't want to mess with me! I know karate!"
When she turned around to help her friend away, her elbow accidentally hit the kid. So he hauled off and hit her in the face. Of course, he made a direct hit on her tooth spacer. Neorxnawang took her to the dentist that evening to get the spacer put back in and tightened.
Her face wasn't bruised, but her pride was. She'd been to a martial arts demonstration with her big brother and sister the week before, and she broke two boards. (We were speechless when she brought them home!) She didn't realize that she couldn't handle the problem herself until it was too late.
So what did we learn?
1. She doesn't REALLY know karate.
2. She needs to find an adult if this ever happens again.
3. The dentist will drop everything for a kid "in crisis." Thank you, dentist!