In soft play with my 2 pre school dc. We were about to eat and just waiting for lunch to arrive. Dd asked if she could play cbeebies on my phone. Rather than get her back in the soft play then out again in minutes for lunch I said yes. She sat playing and another boy (2 years older) sat almost on her watching. His mum said he had to ask if he could watch so he did and dd said yes. They sat nicely for a few minutes then the food came. I started cutting it up at the table and heard the boy ask dd if he could play. She said yes and gave him my phone as she came and sat up.
I guess I expected the mum to step in as I know I would have. I wouldn't let dc go to soft play and use a random parent's phone. Yes dd said he could but she's 3!
I ended up nicely saying to the dc that my dh might message me so I needed it back. I removed the phone and dc went into tantrum. His mum proceeded to tell him I was making up excuses because I didn't want him to have it and I shouldn't have let him have it (I didn't and anyway I believe in giving dc reasons rather than just saying no) and anyway it will rot his brain and its very bad for him. Dc had a tablet that he'd been on previously. Overall it was very odd. His mum carried on but I stopped listening.
It just made me wonder if I'm unusual. I'd be embarrassed if any of my dds just picked up a mum's phone they didn't know and would tell them to give it back to the owner or leave it where they found it - that's surely the usual reaction isn't it?
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if your child started playing with a mum's phone would you intervene?
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m0therofdragons · 08/12/2014 15:09
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