I am confused as to why a mother would act like this?

[BumbieBee]

Today i took DD who is 2.5 to our local themepark and she was playing in the sand pit with another girl her age. After around ten minutes of them playing together another girl came to the sandpit with her mum and the girl came over to build sandcastles with my daughter and the other girl they were all playing happily and then when the mother of the girl who had just joined noticed she ran over and pulled her daughter away by her arm and told her to go play by herself. I dont understand why she did this does she not want her toddler to interact with others or does she think her child is to good to be making friends with ours i just dont understand why she would act like this or what her problem could have being?

My daughter has autism sometimes she can be physical so I tend to steer her away if she gets too close to other children incase she hurts them as she can be unpredictable maybe that’s why? People have their reasons 🤷‍♀️

Maybe her DD had a bit of a tummy bug she didn't want passing on to your DC.
And yeah if her dd was ill she should have stayed at home but she wouldn't have got her.momey.back from the theme.park if she booked in advance.

I have a DS of the same age and I would assume that he was annoying other children and gently try and steer him away.

Scared of covid maybe? Who knows. It is quite an unusual reaction.

I'm sure there were many times when it might have looked like I was that mum.

In reality, I was just watching my child like a hawk, to preempt any potential 'incidents'.

That's all, I just knew him very well and knew the signs that he might be building up to a certain outburst, even though anyone else wouldn't have known anything was brewing.

Child has a habit of lashing out suddenly
Child is going through a biting phase
Child is unwell in some way
Child or parents have Covid or are vulnerable and afraid of Covid.
Mum hates child playing with sand because it gets everywhere and makes the bedding crunchy for weeks afterwards.
Child is adopted/fostered or needs identity hidden and another parent was taking photos.

Many different reasons but unless you're prepared to run after the mum and demand answers I suppose you'll never know 🤷🏿‍♀️

Maybe her daughter is vulnerable and afraid she could catch covid bor naybd has covid who knows