Long story short: Teacher's decided on a day of protest, I decided on a play date for my son with one of his classmates to cheer him up about missing school, and then when the teachers decided at 4 am that they were not protesting and school would go on as usual, I decided to keep my son home anyway and continue with the play date. That was not my good deed though. I have my reasons.
Well the play date went all right. Both boys have "only child syndrome," although my five year old has a little brother (with four years between them it's not easy to get over a syndrome like that). They were mostly nice, but there was a little bit of bossiness and attitude. Anyhow, I decided that since they were playing well together at the time, instead of having his mom take him with her to do groceries I would offer to have him stay for a couple more hours. This was beneficial to all concerned. His mom (also a friend of mine) could get her grocery shopping done a bit more quickly and the boys would have lots more time to play together. I didn't mind watching him for another couple hours at all; he's a great kid and kept my boy busy too. But who says it has to eb painful to be nice?
My original idea for today was to watch some neighbourhood kids while the teachers were busy protesting and not teaching, but that didn't work out. Tomorrow I fully intend to buy someone a coffee.
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