Should my kid have sucked it up?

[Baconqueen13]

Dodgeball at a trampoline park... yeah face hits are going to happen regardless of aim or intention. Your kid should have sucked it up and played a different game.

[Deleted User 670]

When I was a kid and we played dodge ball in school, it was against the rules to throw the ball at anyone's face.

[Baconqueen13]

When I was a kid and we played dodge ball in school, it was against the rules to throw the ball at anyone's face.

Yes, and plenty of balls still landed in faces. There is constant motion in a dodgeball game with jumping, ducking and dodging, as well as running back and forth. Kids aren't always the best at aiming either so while it is against rules to AIM for someones face, face hits can happen regardless. ow add in this took place at a public trampoline park and not a school gymnasium.

[Hot4Tchr-Bieg]

The only way to know if it was on purpose is if she was going around hitting other people in the face too. And unless that was the case, then some variation of "suck it up" is appropriate.

If she WAS purposely bashing kids in the face, clearly all the other kids need to gang up on her.

[Bubbs]

I doubt she had such amazing aim that it was on purpose.,
I would have told my kid to shake it off and either keep playing or play something else.

[BionicBunny]

Although I am pretty sure this is a troll post just in case it isn't. He is 13 not 2 and got hit by a ball and you went and told an adult on the other child. Do you see how foolish this is?

He is 10. She is 13

[Anonymous 8]

Im with your dh it is part of playing the game. I used to get hit the face in gym

[Anonymous 9]

The kid is 10, your dh is right, it is part of the game. I would have just given my kid the once over, saw no injuries and told him, the entire point of dodge ball is to hit the other person. If you can't handle being hit, don't play. Seriously you over reacted

[CotterpinDoozer]

Yeah, that's a risk you take when you play dodgeball, tell him to suck it up and play something else.

[cellomom26]

I wouldn't be surprised if multiple kids got hit in the head at that place. Those places are zoos and some kids are jerks. Some parents are also jerks, that's how the kids turn out to be jerks.