My granddaughter is three, nearly four and her imagination is a lot wilder and weirder than that.
Maybe the child just wanted to stay in nursery school and didn't want the fun to stop.
Maybe the mum had a different hairstyle, or appearnce in another way? I remember walking off with the wrong mum once because she was wearing a red coat. I slipped my hand into the pocket and neither she, nor I noticed. It was only when my mother called me that we both realised we were attached.
PS. I suspect the one boy I remember getting the cane had ADHD and therefore less control over his behaviour than others. Saen Burke, his name was. Nice lad. No mean streak, or anything, just effervescent.
I went to an ordinary primary school (as ordinary as a Catholic school gets, anyway) and some boys did get the cane.
There was the threat of the cane in my secondary comprehensive school at the start (age 11), but I think it had been abolished by the time I was about 14 years old, in the early 80's. I don't recall it ever being used.
It seems unbelievable now that such a barbaric, abusive and unintelligent method of control was used within my lifetime.
When you let a dog into your life, you make a commitment.
I'm not sure I like the idea of being asked to break my commitments, or asking anyone else to. I wonder how that might impact upon a relationship.
It might be different if I was too ill, or incapable in some other way of looking after the dog, or the dog lived with another family member, like my daughter where there was equal attachment.
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RE: Telling lies...
Are you saying these examples are always lies?Or examples of potential lies that potentially we want to believe?