history: One day my daughter came home and told me a much older boy tripped her as she was going off the bus. He did it on purpose, and this made me very, very upset. She was only 10, he was a teenager. One day my 10 year old daughter came home crying after she got off the bus. A teenage boy purposely tripped her as she was getting off and she got hurt. Needless to say_comma_ I was very_comma_ very upset!
current: That is terrible.  I don't know why teenage boys can be so mean.  What did you end up doing?
next: I actually knew his father, so I called and spoke to him about it. I let him know that if it happened again, I couldn't promise her big brother wouldn't take it in his own hands to defend her, as he wasn't okay with anyone bullying her.