The other day after my workout, Adam was playing in the indoor playground at the Community Center. He was following around a group of boys who were ages 4-6 years old. They were playing Indiana Jones at the time. Anytime Adam would catch up to them they would run away and say he was a alligator or a bad guy. A couple times when they were just kind of standing around trying to figure out what they wanted to play, Adam would try to join in and I saw at least one of them give him a little push away. Adam thought they were just playing. He followed them up to the top of the play-thing and one of the kids was just standing there. It was hard to see but I think he may have been blocking the way to the top and Adam may have pushed him. Next thing I hear is the kid whining, saying Adam is a bully and he's going to go tell his mom. Kid slides down the slide crying to his mommy that Adam is a bully. Adam is close behind, stands there smiling, and says HI!! as the mom quietly talks to her kid. I walk over saying Adam just wants to play with the big kids. One of the other mom's was like "absolutely!" (But I think her kid got all mad when Adam looked over his shoulder at a book). Kid is fine and walks back over to his gang and we leave...
Same day....we go over to the "new" park later in the afternoon. Adam finds a couple of little kids to play with for a while but eventually they had to leave. He finds another group of a boys and starts following them. One blocks him from the kid he was following and tells him to stop following them and gives him a little shove away. Thankfully that mom was right there and explained that Adam just wanted to play and to be nice. We needed to leave anyway so I tried to have a talk with Adam in the car saying that if he gets shoved again to say "Please don't push me! I just want to play with you!" and to try to ask kids if they want to play before just following them around.
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