Xueling got attacked in the playground again.
This time, she decided to go and play with a burly boy on a carousel, not realised that the kid had already shoved another, younger kid off multiple times and made him cry.
He decided that since she was already there, he'd spin the carousel so fast that she'd spin off.
Kid's an idiot, because when he did that and Xueling was starting to look at risk of losing her grip, I grabbed his shoulder and raised my voice.
"If she gets hurt," I told him loud enough to be heard by everyone in the playground, "you get hurt."
He tried to shake me off, at which point his grandparents arrived on the scene. (one wonders what they were doing before this, when he was traumatising some other kid.)
They opened their mouth, and I gave them a look, and they grabbed the kid and hustled him off, and I heard them yelling at him.
(They dragged him back later to apologise to Xueling.)
Xueling wanted, of all things, to go back and play next to him on the slide. It became very clear that she simply could not grasp the concept of someone who would hurt her, just to make sure that nobody could play with what was his. It took me about half a minute, throughout which she looked vey confused.
Finally:
Xueling: "I will go and tell him he has to share."
Me: "Hell no."
Xueling: "But he has to learn."
Me: "Yes, and he's learning it now. But he doesn't have to learn it from you. He's already tried to hurt you once. Do you want him to do it again?"
Xueling: "But Daddy is here."
Me: "If he tries to hurt you again I'm going to have to beat him, and then the police will come, and then you won't be able to play here any more. Why don't you play on the merry-go-round instead?"
Xueling: "Ok."
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