resolution

Thanks for all the input. 

The thing that put me over the top on the decision to contact the other mom was when That Patti  (who reads this blog) said they had made a similar comment (“disgusting”) about her son who is missing a hand.   While kids will be kids, that kind of thing definitely needs to be addressed, in my opinion. 

(And just to be clear,  I don’t think they are bad kids at all.  If they were, I wouldn’t even bother to talk to their mom.  I would just keep my kids away.)

It ended up that I had a perfect opportunity to email the parent because one of the other kids at M’s party was just diagnosed with pink eye.   When I emailed all the parents to let them know, I just threw in a short note at the bottom to the mom of the kids I wrote about before.

It all turned out just peachy keen.  I emailed the other mom and told her what happened.  She thanked me, told me she was glad another parent said something to them and said she would talk to them herself. 

This is exactly how I hope I would have reacted myself. 

Now, my only concern is that we didn’t spread pinkeye to half the city when I had the kids play Pin the Paw on Blue with a blindfold. Heh.