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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Backpack could have been hit by the mirror.[/quote]

And taken the strap off his shoulder?  Without destroying or even leaving a mark on the backpack?  Mirror still carries the force of the car and would have knocked down the child and destroyed the backpack.  Do you know anything about physics?[/quote]

What is your point? Is your point that OP's son made it all up? For drama and excitement, maybe?[/quote]

Have you read what I posted previously?  No I don't think the kid made it up, not at all.  I don't thnk he understands what happened, and he thinks the car "almost hit him" when his backpack simply fell off his shoulder.  That's his way of thinking the incident occurred, and that's fine. Kids are like that.  But when my kid comes in and says "I almost got hit by a car! My backpack got hit!" I don't necessarily credit my kids' version of events.  Because my kid is, well, a kid. And the way he thinks the world works is not necessarily the way things go down.  It's my job as a parent to gently say "Be more careful next time sweetie."[/quote]

So a car came speeding by close enough to make OP's child think it hit his backpack, and then his backpack fell off when he jumped out of the way, and your reaction is, "Be more careful next time, sweetie"?

My reaction is that, regardless of whether the driver actually hit him or only came close enough, fast enough, to make him think that the car hit him -- the driver needs to slow down and watch out, and the transportation department should improve the street so that drivers will drive more slowly on it.[/quote]

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