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Is there a good way to tell the parent of a child playing at your house that one of your children hit their child in the head with a golf club? I didn't think so.

Today Carson had a friend from school over. The two of them and Hayden were outside playing. Hayden got his golf clubs out of the garage, which he's not supposed to be playing with. They are not just kiddie golf clubs. They are real golf clubs, just kid sized. Anyway he had a club and was swinging it around in a circle, when Carson's friend got in the way and got whacked in the back of the head. At least it was in the back of the head instead of the front. It hurt bad enough that he started crying. I quickly grabbed him and hugged him. Then I checked his head. There were no marks on it and he said he was okay. I kept asking if he was okay and he kept telling me he was. Just before his dad was going to come and pick him up I checked him out again and he had a small bump there, but he said it didn't hurt. Hayden spent the rest of the afternoon in his room. He really did feel bad about it because it was an accident, but he knows he's not supposed to play with golf clubs in that manner, and I told him he's lucky Carson's friend didn't get hurt bad enough to go to the hospital. That happened to my brother when he was a kid. His friend accidentally hit him just above his eye with a golf club. He had to go get stitches. He has a scar there now. At least it was an accident. The time the same friend (if you can call him that) hit my brother on the head with a hammer, causing him to get stitches again, was not an accident. Also the time the same kid tried to run my mom over with a tractor wasn't an accident. We were glad when that family moved out of the neighborhood.

Anyway, when the kid's dad showed up I had to tell him what happened. I felt like an idiot. Sorry, I let your kid get nailed in the head with a 7 iron. His dad didn't seem too concerned about it. Hopefully he'll let his child come to our house and play again. I'd hate for Carson to lose a friend because of his pesky little brother.