| What a horrible situation to have been in. There is nothing more distressing than being threatened. It does not sound like a very nice environment to take children to if there are threatening situations occuring between the adults. Interestingly enough I was thinking aobut going along for a trial lesson but wont bother now. A similar thing happened to me a few years back. My son scrambled on a piece of play equipment and pushed a younger child in the back, I was watching him but also nursing a newborn so could not get up very quickly to speak with my son and ask him to be more careful and apologize. It was not a malicious act but he was being careless (please remember he was two at the time). The father of the child grabbed my son by the arm and frog marched him over to his son screaming at my son to apologize. I calmly asked him to "let go" of my son and to please calm down, he replied that my son was a "very naughtly boy", I told him that adults "man handling children" was far more offensive, and walked away. How interesting to realize later that he was a junior school teacher in Hong Kong! I have always regretted not defending us more but I guess sometimes as our mothers have always taught us it is more dignified to walk away and less stressful for our children.
I hope you can put it behind you and not lose anymore sleep over it. |