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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in NYC in the 80's.  You can tell in my parenting. I'd have stayed out of it completely.  They handled it fairly.  Don't start a fight you can't finish.  [/quote]

[b]I wonder if you would've had a different position if the 6 year old was a girl[/b]?

I think the mother intervened for the sake of the older boy rather than the younger.  It's so important to teach boys especially to control their emotions and respond thoughtfully when provoked.  I would've reprimanded the older child while secretly smiling and thinking that the 6 year old got what he deserved.  I'm from nyc too.[/quote]

Nope. Girls aren't delicate flowers who wilt and die if they get shoved on their asses.  In my experience, girls fight much dirtier than boys.  Everyone I can think of who had to go to the hospital because of a fight went there because of a fight with a girl.  [/quote]

I wonder if you would feel differently if the kids were black.   Would you still stay out of it and not intervene?  [/quote]

???  Yep. Black kids are not foreign scary entities to me.  [/quote]

Yes.  But black kids acting violent, even when it’s age appropriate, is looked at differently than white kids behaving violently.  As a parent of a black boy approaching puberty, I spend a lot of time showing my son how to handle situations without anger, shoving, or violence.  [/quote]

Yeah, I'm familiar.  But as I said initially, I'm from NYC.  Where there are tons of black people.  People aren't inherently more violent based on their skin color. [/quote]

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