The Apology and Forgiveness

Whilst Renee was eating her lunch on Saturday, I chatted with her and I asked why she had not wanted to go back to school the day before(she didn't say she doesn't want to go but when we mentioned abt staying home, she was very happy which surprised us) and she said "because Liling pinched me"...

Then yesterday, she mentioned about playing with Liling happily and I asked if she's ready to play with Liling again and she said "Yes!". This is actually a good thing 'cos it shows that she has a big heart but in order for her not to be taken for granted and also, I felt that the girl should know that she's wrong for inflicting such physical hurt, I told her that she should wait for Liling to apologise and she just replied "Ok".

This morning, although I had a hard time getting her up from bed again(don't understand why, she had gone to bed at 10pm and had fallen asleep almost instantly...and on non-school days, she can wake up early by herself even if she's gone to bed later than 10pm, haiz...), she was very happy to be at 'school' again. The teacher received her at the door and I asked her about incident. She said that she had not witnessed the incident personally but that she's applied medication(which I thanked her for) and that's when Liling came to Renee and apologised. I showed teacher Diana the mark which was still there and I commented to her that "it's actually quite bad, as you can see the mark is still here". My purpose of telling her this was so that if in the event the parents are responsible enough to check back on how's Renee, she could inform them.

Renee's had some minor 'accidents' before, in her preschool, but I've never felt so protective like now 'cos I know these accidents bound to happen when children play together(just citing an example : like the time when Vanessa had caused her to fall and a bump appeared her foreehead - read here) but this time round, the hurt inflicted was worser(the girl had pinched with her fingernails dugged into her skin and had even held on for quite a while, Renee should have pushed her away, haiz, and that's what we've taught her that night) and intentional, so I can't help but feel otherwise.