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To be angry woman at soft play told ds to stop bothering her

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mynME · 24/12/2025 18:02

Apparently ds had gone to her several times in the play session to tell her about her child, he was sitting on one of those cars you pay to have a turn on and not letting my ds touch the wheel, and for being quite noisy. Apparently she was OK at first but then said ‘ok I really need you to stop bothering me now and tell your own mum,’ but what’s it got to do with me if her child isn’t behaving??

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mathanxiety · 24/12/2025 20:05

You need to stop teaching your child to tell tales. It's a very annoying trait.

You need to teach him that if another child has possession of a toy, even if that child isn't visibly doing anything with it, he needs to wait until the child drops it or walks away from it.

DahlsChickenz · 24/12/2025 20:02

Tbh I'd be pretty annoyed if someone's son kept on coming up and hassling me about something like this. Your son should go to you if there's something he wants help with, not other parents.

Fundays12 · 24/12/2025 19:55

Is this a joke post? Your kid was being a pain in the bum to another parent and complaining to another kids parent for there child making noise and not sharing at soft play? I am guessing he is your only child.

OP I mean this kindly but your child is going to be really disliked if you carry on teaching him to tell tales on other kids. Kids dont like other kids that tell tales or tell on them for minor things, parents dont like kids that either generally and tend to encourage there kids to be friend's with kids who don't do that. Put a stop to this nonsense now. Had one of my kids came and moaned at me that X child was being loud the answer would have been "we are in soft play i expect that go play away from X child if it bothers you".

elliejjtiny · 24/12/2025 19:55

You don't have to follow him around but you still need to keep an eye on him at that age. I still check what my dc are doing at softplay every few minutes or so and they are 11, 12 and 15.

pinkyredrose · 24/12/2025 19:53

mynME · 24/12/2025 18:16

He was pushing ds’s hands away when ds was trying to take the wheel

If his mum paid for him to use the car then your son should have left him alone.

Can't believe your barbed comments about her chat with her mates being disturbed when you weren't supervising your son.

The2ndMrsMaximDeWinter · 24/12/2025 19:51

Oh God OP i am embarrassed for you.

I have a friend whose son used to tell parents what their kids were up to at soft play. He would go round the adults pointing and say "is that your child" before grassing on some minor misdemeanour. The parents in question would be utterly perplexed that some pompous sounding reception age child was basically telling them off, me and other mates would be mortified but my friend (who is lovely) thought it was the right thing to do.

These kids are adults now but I promise it's social suicide

DinoLil · 24/12/2025 19:49

YOU are the problem!!!

MrMucker · 24/12/2025 19:45

Good god he's five. It doesn't matter who did or said what. Parent him by stepping in and smoothing things out. He's five!!

Isittimeformynapyet · 24/12/2025 19:43

mynME · 24/12/2025 18:10

I’ve always taught him to tell the child’s parents if they are not behaving. Surely that’s the right thing to do.

So you've actually told your son to be an arsehole!?

Mintteaplease · 24/12/2025 19:42

Is this for real? You really need to be the adult in the situation.

Completelybatshit · 24/12/2025 19:42

mynME · 24/12/2025 18:16

He was pushing ds’s hands away when ds was trying to take the wheel

Your child was in the wrong here, as a parent you should have been telling him to leave the other child playing and to wait until he had finished. If your child had come up to me I’d have come over to you and told you to parent him appropriately, whilst you might think children should or must share, it’s not the law.

gamerchick · 24/12/2025 19:41

mynME · 24/12/2025 18:15

But then otherwise I have to rebuke a child who isn’t mine which doesn’t seem quite right?

No you don't. You don't rebuke anyone.

Nobody likes a kid who tells tales OP. Control your son and maybe engage with him at soft play.

Ellie1015 · 24/12/2025 19:37

Your ds shouldn't have been touching it while the other child was on it even if not moving. He shouldn't have been bothering the mum.

stichguru · 24/12/2025 19:29

The other child wasn't doing anything wrong unless he was actually making continuous ear-piecing shrieking, and had been in the car for like more that 15-20 minutes. If the other child's mum thought your DS was disturbing her, I very much doubt he'd left it more than a few minutes to tell her about the car, which means your DS needs to learn to wait his turn. As for the noise - sounds quite normal for toddler play.

PumpkinSparkleFairy · 24/12/2025 19:25

mynME · 24/12/2025 18:16

He was pushing ds’s hands away when ds was trying to take the wheel

So your child was actually the one being rude 🙈

Shedeboodinia · 24/12/2025 19:23

mynME · 24/12/2025 18:10

I’ve always taught him to tell the child’s parents if they are not behaving. Surely that’s the right thing to do.

This is terrible advice. Noone likes a tattle tale. It's irritating and just horrible.
Yoyr chikd should have waited until the other chikd was finished. You should have directed your child to another activity.
If your child kept coming and telling me about my child I would have done the same thing.
You are in the wrong and should have been supervising your child and directing them to another area of the soft play untilt ge other child was finished.

circledrain1 · 24/12/2025 19:20

mynME · 24/12/2025 18:09

Because he was explaining to her that she needed to control her son (didn’t use those words, he was very polite?)

So it is acceptable that your 5 year old is telling adults how to parent their child!?? Seriously!?? Wow. Sorry, I would have told you to stop your child from interrupting adults who are speaking and told you to find your child something else to play on!!! How do you know her child doesn't have issues with neurodiversity or similar? That could explain his not wanting anyone touching the wheel?

OneShyQuail · 24/12/2025 19:20

So you send a 5 year old to tell an adult whose a stranger off?!

Tontostitis · 24/12/2025 19:16

mynME · 24/12/2025 18:09

Because he was explaining to her that she needed to control her son (didn’t use those words, he was very polite?)

God Lord read that back to yourself how can you possibly think you and your rude child are in the right. Teach him some manners.

CrispieCake · 24/12/2025 19:13

Yeah, I've told a kid to go away before when they kept coming to me to tell tales about my DC who wasn't really doing anything wrong in my opinion.

You really need to teach your child not to bother random adults. If he has a problem, he comes to you and you judge whether it's worth speaking to the parent about.

awrbc81 · 24/12/2025 19:13

Was there nothing else in the whole of the soft play your DS could play with?
You should have seen that he was repeatedly bothering a stranger and told him to play somewhere else until the other boy had had enough on the car

DownThePubWithStevieNicks · 24/12/2025 19:12

OP, your son is going to find himself friendless pretty quickly if you’re teaching him to be a grass.

Sillysoggyspaniel · 24/12/2025 19:12

mynME · 24/12/2025 18:16

He was pushing ds’s hands away when ds was trying to take the wheel

Which is reasonable. Your child shouldn't have tried to bully his way into the car! You are so unreasonable this has to be a reverse.

TheEverlastingPorridge · 24/12/2025 19:11

I call Reverse and claim my prize

Isyesterdaytomorrowtoday · 24/12/2025 19:08

but her kid wasn’t actually doing anything ‘wrong’? I’d have told mine to stop whinging and go find something away from the other kid to play with if he was bothering him so much.

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