I took my 3 year old DD to a sandy park today and it was quite busy. Theres hills around the outside for parents to sit on and keep an eye on their kids while playing.
While playing we spot this bald headed girl with obvious disabilities. I want to make clear that I understand her behaviours may very well be a result of her disabilities. She spoke fine and seemed to understand fine. I'm not saying this girl should understand what she did was wrong. I do not know her. This is a rant about her parents, not her.
So while my girl was playing in the sand and on the slides, I watch this other girl (who I later found out was 5). She went up to a boy in the sand and snatched his cup (playing with it) and made him cry (he looked 3/4). She did this again later. She grabbed other sand toys from other kids. 1 girl she grabbed something off tried fighting back and so this girl started pulling at her dress. I was with my dd at the time next to them so I dragged her off.
At one point she tried going down a slide but fell off mid-slide. She seemed fine but another parent rushed to her side. A few minutes later she was walking up the slide, with another boy waiting to go down.
When the boy who brought the sand toys with him (left in the sand for everyone to play with) come to clear up and go, this girl grabbed his bag a number of times and emptied it out. She snatched the toys and refused to give them to him. He only got to do it when her attention was lost. Another random parent did try to help but I don't think they wanted to man handle the girl.
She was pushing other kids and generally being a bully around the park.
Most of our time there the parent was non-existant. We had no idea who she was with. Only 1 time did her mum come and move her on when causing trouble. No apologies, no telling her not to do this or that. Nope just moving her on to play with something else, which didn't last long.
Later in the day, while not seeing what happened, I witnessed her mum arguing with another set of parents. The girls mum said "5 year olds don't hit other 5 years olds" which is laughable. Her kid has been hitting and bullying other kids all afternoon.
Later when I walked past them, I saw the mum and who I assumed were her dad and brother's. A bottle of wine was out and the assumed to be brothers sipping on beers.
Just the utmost terrible parenting I have ever seen. It's truly shocking. I've seen the girl at a different local park once before and she was a bully then too. It feels like the parents just left their girl to do what she wants and let other parents do their parenting. Her mum just needs a clip around the fucking ear.
I know Im not the greatest parent and my dd isn't always an angel, but this woman is just a waste of air imo.
Sorry about the rant. And sorry that was longer then I expected.