First time on writing on mumset so I'm sorry if I babble.
So today I took my son out to soft play in town, its free and quite a cool little setup they have for the under 5s, it's has a tree house, ball put etc. My son is 20 months, understands what we say but isn't talking yet. My son has this thing about playfully slapping us which we are trying to stop and he did this to an older boy to which I told him off straight away and then let him carry on playing while I watched from the seating area. That was thr only incident that warranted telling him off. There were these 3 older kids maybe 3-4 years old and he just wanted to watch them and join in when they were in the tree house and in the play house but they kept running away from him. Then the little girl began to say I don't like that boy, I hate that boy, referencing my son, he smells, he's scruffy etc etc, he doesn't smell and he wasn't scruffy, he was wearing t-shirt and trousers, I put him in comfy clothes so he can run around. Its a small area and quiet, there was only two other adults in the seating area so the parent/guardian would have heard it fairly clearly what this girl had said. She was clearly being a nasty little bully and the guardian/parent just said there stonefaced listening to what this kid was saying and didn't even say a peep. Am I in the wrong for being mad? I'm more angry at the parent for not doing anything than the kid, because if that was my son, I'd have told him off, I wouldn't want him growing up thinking that behaviour is okay. He's so little, luckily he doesn't understand yet and thinks its all play but it just breaks my heart because I was bullied throughout my childhood and I don't want that for my son. I wish I'd said something then but i was just dumbfounded thinking, did that just really happen? In my opinion its just lazy, can't be ar*ed parenting. What are these kids going to turn out like the future.
Just make me mad. Sorry for rambling on.