Truthful Thursday

So today I took the boys to the park. Logan loves going to the park and playing on the playground. I put Austin in the baby Bjorn so I am more accessible to Logan. Well today I used my teacher voice with another child. Logan was loving climbing on the playground and then he wanted to go down the slide. So I was nearby making sure he didn't fall. There was a little girl blocking the slide so he couldn't go down. She said to him "your a baby you can't go down." Well he has no idea that she is being mean to him, so he just says "hi." Then the little girl says "shut up baby!" I wanted to push her down the slide. She just told my sweet boy to shut up. So I said to her, in my teacher tone, "if you don't go down the slide right this second, you will have to sit out and won't be able to use the playground equipment." HA! She looked at me and went right down that slide. Here's the thing, my mama claws are sharp and they will come out when needed. We will teach Logan how to stick up for himself and to handle situations when we aren't around, but truthfully if I am around I don't think I will be able to sit back and not say anything. This is something I am going to have to work on.