LOL I have told my boys that it's okay to pop some kid who is pulling any shenanigans with their girl cousins.
Doggone right. The male has the instinct to protect and defend and protect and defend he should.
My daughter has a speech disorder. She only started talking at about 5 1/2 (she's almost 8 now).
When she was about 3 or 4, we went to McDonald's with another family. The little boy was bugging my daughter. I told him to stop bothering her because she couldn't tell him to leave her alone.
I warned him that if he didn't stop, she would either hit him or bite him and she wouldn't get in trouble for it.
I warned him, and I figure that she was protecting herself from being pushed around at a McDonald's playground. It was her way of communicating.