My nearly two year old has been under the weather but we went to the park for a run around and walked past three 8(approx) year olds sat on a log playing on their phones. For some reason my son beamed for the first time all day and two of them rolled their eyes. Then one said something to the other (i think about the game) and they laughed, which made my son laugh. One looked at my son and said 'Ugh we weren't laughing with YOU'. He just toddled off oblivious so it didn't really matter but for some reason I felt this massive rage and it took every fibre of my being to stop myself shouting 'He's one you little s**t!!!' I'm not normally like that but I have noticed feeling that way a couple of times before if older kids are nasty (he's been walloped by younger kids and that doesn't bother me at all because they don't know what they're doing). Is it normal to feel so irrationally angry with people who are still kids themselves or am I one of those PFB mums I've read about?! If I'm like this now I don't know what I'll be like if he has issues at school (which he's bound to at some point because that's life), do I just need to try to harden up a bit?
AIBU?
to want to yell 'he's one, you little s**t' at kids in the park
MistySkies · 06/01/2017 22:14
Not normal, no.
Yes you are one of those PFB mums by the sound of it.
When you have such a young child, 8 year olds can seem like OAPs in terms of age gap.
But one day you'll find yourself wanting to scream "My PFB is only 8 you little shit" 
I'm not a mother (yet), but I'dve got enraged as well! Little oiyks! 
Not irrational, but if they were 8yo they were most likely thinking with their Game Brains. And if your DS wasn't bothered then heave a sigh of relief.
Though I'd have said (in my best Glasgow accent , I lived there 3 years)
Aye take the piss oot ay a bairn, Big man, make ye feel better eh? and glared (works well in Essex, causes 
looks)
If you'd called 8yo Little Shits , you'd have looked the offender
And also, you don't know that the approximate 8 year old was being nasty.
Some kids that age (especially if they have no experience of toddlers) can be quite literal. So it's quite possible he pointed out they weren't laughing with your DS, because they weren't.
When my DS3 was a toddler, his older brother had a friend called David.
My DS couldn't pronounce David so he called him 'Davey'. Every time he did, he turned to my toddler and said "My name's not Davey" and would get quite annoyed by it, until we pointed out that he was simply unable to pronounce his name.
After that, he really softened up (because he realised my toddler wasn't winding him up on purpose) and still has a soft spot for him now at 14 years old 
It's not out of the ordinary at all OP. Not at all. I remember similar when mine was small...I was only that way...in the extreme, with my first child.
You'll chill a bit with the second. 
Oh and those kids were shits. I have an 8 year old and they're perfectly capable of being kind to toddlers and understanding they're younger etc.
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My 8-month old smiled happily at three older children recently, who sneered at him and laughed in a mean way. He totally knew they were being horrid and looked so hurt and confused. Everyone else in his little life thus far has always returned his smile. I, too, wanted to yell at them for shattering his innocence (albeit in the most trivial way!) My husband returned to our car moments later and wanted to chase after them when I told him. So we clearly all share the same PFB sentiments!
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