It was a busy saturday at a garden centre soft play with a party having been booked in an adjacent room with the older kids from the party quite hyped up on all the soft play equipment. Ordered a coffee for my husband and let him go drink it while I played with my 2 year old in the 2-5 area. Lots of the older kids were in the area so I was on high alert and staying close.
LO wanted to crawl through a tunnel that was on the base of a slide that the bigger kids were climbing over so I let her go through when the other side was clear and quickly got myself in position on the other side of the tunnel/slide.
One of the older kids instead of going down the slide covered the hole straight away with her legs and started kicking her feet while my child was still crawling through. I quickly told the child to be careful and let her know that my little one was coming through and to quickly move out the way. The child jumped down and ran off onto another piece of equipment and carried on playing while my daughter got out safely. Benounced to me the older kids dad was sat next to me and told me that "I shouldn't speak to a child that way and should have said excuse me instead" the mum was sat next to him and said " you say excuse me!" I was quite honestly in shock at the whole situation. I just apologised while the dad was staring me down and explained that I was concerned for my childs safety in the situation and needed to get her out quickly. I then left with my daughter pretty quickly and we played mainly in the older kids or baby area. The kid did not seem upset or even slightly bothered by the situation. It really concerns me that he saw the situation and didnt tell his child to be safe and move out the way. I feel like he also wouldnt have said that to me if my husband was around. Was that a situation in which I should have said excuse me? What would you have done said? Was the dad being unreasonable? Would love to know your thoughts.