Rough School

I picked Keira up from after school care where the director told me Keira had some scrapes on her face, but that he didn't know when that happened. He didn't think it happened during the after-care program and asked Keira about it, but said she claimed not to know anything about it.

At first glance, it looked like Keira got into a fight. She had a nice scrape under her eye, a scratch on her eyelid and another scrape across her nose. I tried to play it cool and calmly told the director that I would talk to her tonight and let him know if I got any info out of Keira. Inside my head I was silently accusing one of the older kids, thinking about bullying...yep, I'm an extremist.

Just some scrapes

I proceeded to ask Keira what happened. She had no clue what I was talking about. I took her to the girls' bathroom and had her look in the mirror. She seemed to be just as surprised to find the scrapes on her face and claimed not to know what happened. After more questions I finally asked the right one that got her memory jump started. It went something like this, "Well, Keira, do you remember if a friend accidentally hit you in the face?" Pretty direct huh? Then she started whistling like a bird...The story went something like this, "It was an accident mom. We were playing tag and there were farmers and pigs and if you had a pig..." and she lost me. The part I understood was that one of her "best friends" tried to "get her" and accidentally hit her in the face. My guess is this kid's nails got her. In any case, it turns out it was all an accident and this friend walked with her to the nurse's office.

So, on her 5th day of kindergarten Keira found herself at the nurse's office. A cold compress and some TLC from the nurse and she was good as new. I have a feeling this won't be the last time she gets injured. Here's to hoping for an uneventful rest of the week!