Me again!
Yesterday, 7 yo dcb comes after my son (who is 5, but outweighs him by at least 15 muscular pounds) and starts whaling at him. Ds fights back and I immediately get in between them to stop the fight. Dcb said that ds stepped on him while he was laying on the ground. Then he started crying because ds scratched him in the fight. I asked ds about the stepping on him, he said it was on accident. He heard it from me for running through the house. Dcb continues to cry about the scratch. I asked him, what did he think ds was going to do, just let him run in and hit on him? Dcb actually said yes! I reminded him that if he had just came in and told either ds or me that he got stepped on (that's what happens when you lay in the middle of the playroom floor, btw), then there would have been no fight and he would not have gotten scratched. If you don't want to get hurt, don't start a fight! Grrrr.....
Three more weeks til school, three more weeks.....