To want to launch the kid who called DD(5) fat into space?

The OP has already confirmed her daughter isn't overweight.

Is your child medically overweight? Are you?

Secondly yes it IS unreasonable for disliking a 6 yr old for doing what 6 yr olds do developmentally and very emotionally immature

FFS, 6 year olds say all kinds of daft things. Just laugh about it. If you turn it into a big deal and start serious conversations about body image with your 5yo she will start to think she really is fat!

My son takes part in competitive sport. One of the other kids kept calling him slow and telling him he's rubbish. He got really down about it. I spoke to the parents and we started meeting up just the two of them on their bikes so they can practice together and get to know each other properly. They're like best mates now. There are other things you can do before getting this angry with a young child.

Yeah, I thought so too.
At first, I thought OP was talking about an adult, not a little kid!!

Scary nowadays how grown adults relate to small children.

Yes, YABU.

I think there was a 'fucker' in there too.

I was waiting behind a lady returning some clothes for her 3 year old grand daughter today. She doesn't fit them as 'she's just TOO chunky!' Tinkly laugh. Repeated 3 times. 'Too chunky! Tch!'

I get that it's upsetting your 5 year old has been called fat. But children say all sorts. It's the adults I worry about who teach them this rubbish.

And if you think that then you must be too stupid.

5 year olds don't know not to say the truth... an older child yes they would know it's nasty, a younger child would not.

What an awful suggestion to trip him up at next school pick up! It's the summer holidays - that's weeks away still 🤷🏼‍♀️ find him in a park, put him in the bin

I'd be casual and dismissive and encourage DD to be the same, because the more said about it the more it will become a thing, when the best result would be for her to be able to swat silly insults away like flies and forget them. Tell DD she hasn't got a fat face and arm, but even if she had, its not important, and if the boy says it to her again she should just say "I don't care what you think about me" and walk away.

" dick" "prick" " shit"
He's a five year old .
FIVE.

You have every right to be annoyed, but starting a thread insulting a five year old and encouraging others to do the same is ridiculous.

oh come on!

If a kids pointed it out then they must be too
fat.

I’m channeling my own 5 year old DS here. He’s just started saying to his sister that she’s ‘fat’ - it’s happened about 3 times and I’ve come down very hard on him (I have a history of ED so it’s immediately a trigger - we don’t talk about weight in any context at home). I don’t know where it has come from and he has absolutely no clue as to any of the deeper meaning. But he’s definitely being a dick and did it in a taunting way which makes me feel like he’s heard it somewhere (he wasn’t being literal, his sister is lean). Thanks for sharing - it’s making me think about how to turn this around for him. Kids are so horrible sometimes (and generally, mine isn’t a bad one at all).

Let's be honest, kids can be brats. People don't just turn bad when they reach adulthood, and children can be pretty awful sometimes.

I don't think it will do this particular brat any harm if the mother of the child he insulted allows herself to dislike him intensely. It's not as though she's going to actually try to boot him into space.

I would try not to make too big of a thing of it with your daughter. Just acknowledge that he shouldn't have said that, and she's actually lovely, but sometimes people say unkind things. Apart from this, I would want her to know that she doesn't have to put up with insults. She can come to you with her worries and avoid people who are not nice.

Mildly annoyed and calling a 6 year old a dick? Eesh OP.

I'd hate to see you when you're raging if being barely annoyed makes you want to launch someone else's child and call them a dick

So being mildly annoyed has you wanting to meet someone off planet?

My 5yo DD tells me I’m not beautiful because I don’t wear a dress only trousers. Somehow dresses to her are the epitome of beauty despite nobody in her immediate circle being ‘dressy’. But of course Ariel wears them, and so does Elsa and princess = beautiful therefore dress = beautiful and trousers = ugly.

I know it’s not quite as emotive as being called fat, but I’m going to go against the grain here and say that kids that age are very literal. DD told me the other day ‘Sofia has a moustache, but she isn’t a boy, she is still a girl’. I told her that comments like that can be rude and she got upset and kept repeating she wasn’t being rude. Now how can I explain that body hair is absolutely fine and nothing to be ashamed of but some people may feel shame if it’s pointed out to a 5 year old?

I know it was a shitty thing to have been said and I would totally be upset if someone said something like that to my girl, but also at that age I would know there was probably no actual malice and I wouldn’t jump to conclusions about their parents either like some posters have said upthread.

You can’t control what other people say and how they will interact with your DD, but what you can control is how you raise your daughter - focus on raising your girl to have brilliant self esteem, and the self confidence to not care what other people say.

So he's 6? That's a very small kid for you, an adult, to be this angry with

He's 6 ffs, I can guarantee your kid will say something not particularly nice to another kid at some point. Yes it's a mean thing to say but surely at 6 it just takes a conversation about how not to speak to people?