On Sat, 1 Nov 2008 16:29:00 -0700, toypup wrote...

DS is 7 yo and he kicked his 5 yo friend who was visiting in our house. I
was mortified. DS knows better to hit, and this child is so much smaller
than he and for no real reason (he claims the other child made him drop his
crackers). I immediately made him apologize and sent DS to his room and he
is still sitting there. I brought the other child home and apologized to
the mom. I talked it over with DH and we came up with a punishment of no
friends for five days and he needs to write a letter of apology to the 5 yo,
along with a verbal and heartfelt apology to the child and his mom. What
would you do?

Holy God, are you serious? Over-react much?

First of all, you cannot force a heartfelt apology. Secondly, I'm sorry
but a letter is more than a bit ridiculous. You're taking a one-time
and very small event and making a federal case out of it. Eventually
this singular lack of perspective will cause a ton of problems, I'd bet.

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