We didn’t find out about it from the boy though. We found out from the Mother of the boy’s friend, who wanted to email us because she was so happy with the what the boy did that she wanted to make sure we knew.
Apparently, his friend has been having some trouble with other kids, mostly consisting of name calling. In this particular instance, they were all playing a game together when a couple other kids started in on the boy’s friend. The boy told them to knock it off or they’d stop playing the game. That ended it.
It’s a strange combination of amusing and frustrating that we found out like this. We ask him about his school days everyday, and mostly we might Just as well be asking him questions about special relativity or imaginary numbers. Guess it just didn’t rate that, on one of those days we asked about, he’d stuck up for a friend. Even so, we’re not going to get too bent out of shape in this case.
For all the time spent correcting him here at the house and when we’re around, it’s still never a sure thing how they’ll behave when they’re on their own. It’s always nice to be pleasantly surprised.