Just came home from the playground crying. And that's me crying, not the dds. We were there minding our own business, dds (2 and 4yo) happily climbing on frames and playing on the swings, when a bunch of six or seven girls between about 8 and 11yo descended on the playground. Whereever one of my girls went to play, they came running over and were all over the same climbing frame in a flash, pushing my dds out of the way and even (I wasn't watching but was told by another mum) kicking dd1 in the head. They were making rude remarks and just generally being unpleasant. I tried to reason with them and ask them to be careful around the little ones or go play somewhere else, but they just kept at it and even I felt threatened by their aggressiveness.
Two of their mums were there but were sat in the corner looking chavy and smoking cigarettes. Clearly there was no point in trying to get them to intervene.
We left in the end but I thought I probably should have left much much sooner.
Can anyone advise? This has never happened to me before.