Bad Guys

Every Wednesday after school, the kids play at the park across the street with the other boys from Parker's class (yes, they are all boys). It's incredibly sweet to see Parker having actual friends and actual conversations with those friends. What isn't incredibly sweet is all the things he is learning. Today, some of the boys were the good guys and the others were the bad guys. They would run around and chase each other and then change positions. Parker doesn't actually know what a bad guy or good guy is since super hero stuff hasn't come across our radar yet. But that didn't stop him from participating.

What did stop him from participating was the one kid who took a twig, pretended it was a giant "knife" and used it to the "cut Parker in half". Parker was not super stoked about that and got pretty anxious. I had to explain to the kid that sometimes Parker didn't want to play those games. The other kids asked, "Did he think I was really going to do it?" "Possibly," was my answer, so he went over to tell him he was just pretending.

Miranda got in on the action too by yelling to one of the boys, "You can't catch me!" Every so often the boy would try to catch her, but in general, he was oblivious to her taunts. Didn't stop her from doing it though.