I am truly puzzled by the phenomenon of mothers who object to their children playing with other kids in public places. Time and again, we run across a child at a playground or by the swimming pool, like today, who is eager to play with Klara, but the mom guards the kid like a hawk and prevents any shared play.
The justification is always, “I am teaching him not to bother strangers.” No amount of explanations that we’re not bothered and that we are very happy for the kids to play together suffices. This boy at the swimming pool today was desperate to play with other children, but any time he would approach somebody and a game would begin, the mom would pounce and drag him away. The mom in question had two other kids with her who were tiny, and they needed her attention. You would think she’d be happy for the eldest son to have somebody to play with, but that was not the case.
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