"The children were upset.." - kids are getting soft, or parent s exaggerating?.
I'd have loved it when I was a kid. Then I went to the ACH with a piece of stick imbedded in my leg age 10 and insisted on being propped up to watch them digging the bits out and sewing it up, and asked questions about stitching technique. At the time I couldn't work out why adults seemed to think I should be upset so long after the injury had happened.