the_rck

My heart goes out to Delia. Arlo went through some preschool stuff with his former best friend excluding him in almost exactly the same way that Delia's friends were treating her, and it was heartbreaking. The worst part was that the teachers in his preschool refused to do anything about it. Arlo's friend had gotten the whole class into this awful game of kids being cruel to each other to try to make them cry. I wanted the teachers to give the whole class a talk about being kind to other people's feelings. But instead the teachers only said, "Sorry, in 25 years of teaching I've found that you can't get a kid to play with someone who the kid doesn't want to play with." It was awful. If I had it to do over again, I'd have pulled Arlo out of that class right away instead of staying the few remaining weeks to the end of the schoolyear. Anyway, I don't think that's relevant to what Delia's friends are doing, since the school year is over.

I sure hope it wasn't me who spaced the playdate. I don't think I've missed any, and I try really really really hard to never *ever* stand up little kids. But I'm awfully good at forgetting things, and so I worry that it might have been me.

**hugs** to Delia about the waterslide incident.