Pimp My Ride

Most Wednesdays the Little and i head out to a little playgroup just up the road.

They have ride on toys, balls, blocks, dollhouses, costumes, crafts and a yummy snack every week,

and both he and i almost always have a good time.

When we first started going a few months ago, he was too little to ride on any of the cars.

Instead he would just stand in the middle of the floor and let the bigger kids tear circles around him,

all the while with a huge grin hiding behind the ever present thumb.

Now that he is bigger he can actually ride the cars himself, and is even finally going forward instead of backwards!

Let me just interject here and say that this in itself just shows how fast he is growing,

{sniff sniff sniff.}

But last week, while riding one of those plasma cars (that you just have to wiggle the wheel and it goes,) one of the 

bigger boys pushed him into a corner and made him get off so he could have the car.

I was right there, and was telling him that he couldn't do that, it was Jake's turn and he could have it after.

Of course the boy didn't listen to me, and despite my protests Jake eventually just got off, 

simply because he was backed in a corner and couldn't move. 

The little didn't even seem to mind, and just went to find something else to play with.

 I, however, was furious.

Now i know this is bound to happen over and over in the years to come, both on playgrounds and in school.

However, the fact that i was right there and couldn't stop it made me angry.

What was I going to do?

I wasn't about to wrestle the car away from a little boy, and the fact that i had been defeated by a 

three year old came as a real blow to my ego.

How do parents deal with this sort of thing? Leave them to figure it out on their own?

Get the other parents involved?  What would you do? 

I felt as though he had taken the car from me, not just my little boy, and i have been stewing about it since.

Once Dr. Nails caught wind of this little incident, it was game on.

And the very next day he came home with a car for the Little that no one would ever take away : )

As for that kid at playgroup? Whatevs, he certainly ain't rollin' like this....