How would you react to this? 5 year old behaviour..

[andjustlikethisorthat]

I was at a 5 year olds birthday party today, mainly children from the same class at school. There's one little boy who seems to like being very rough (no big news I know!) but he's literally hitting his class mates. At one point he tried to throw a toy at my face and I held my hand up and said no. His mum didn't intervene just let him carry on.
Then at the end he made a point of just continually saying to another kid that they are naughty.. repeatedly. This other kid hadn't done a thing other than sit on his mums knee.
The boy who was telling him he was naughty just kept saying it, his mum gave him a kiss and carried on regardless 🤦🏻‍♀️
I've seen him doing pretty much exactly the same thing at 2 other parties in the last month but with his sights on a different child.

Now im baffled as to how to deal with this, should you ignore it? I'd be a bit miffed and I know my DS would be upset if someone kept calling him naughty.

What do you say in this kind of situation?
Would you ignore him? Move away? Correct him? Ask his parents to step in?!

I'd ignore and stay away from them, and have a chat with my DC later about good and bad decisions and how to handle people who act like that.

I'm asking for advice on the best way as we have a few more parties coming up including ds party

What is he was infront of your child telling them they are naughty again and again? Would you just walk away?

I would say 'no, that's not true, DS is a good boy, we need to use kind words please'.

If he then carried on I would say 'you're being very silly now and I've asked you to stop'. Then move away.

I do not let children upset my children with no consequence, and if their parent isn't capable then I will certainly speak up.

I wouldn't ignore it at all. I generally give my kid chance to deal with other kids on her own but I supervise. If it's getting out of hand or I can see she doesn't know how to react then I step in and either model how to react, remove her from the situation or deal with the other kid myself. If their parents are turning a blind eye or aren't present then I would definitely address the behaviour, it's wrong.

I'd say 'Hey Felix! That's not true and I don't think DS likes that you keep saying it!....Oh look they've got balloons over there'.

If he carried on I'd say 'Hey Felix! We're going to move away now because we don't like that you keep saying DS is naughty'.

Beyond that ignore.

Or if you think he's just looking for engagement I'd maybe ask 'What did DS do that was naughty?' and then, assuming what he said wasn't true, 'No he didn't! Don't be silly! Are you looking forward to pass the parcel?'

If my child was being told they were naughty by another child I'd tell the child that they weren't naughty, they were very good, and please say nice things.

I would speak up and tell the kid to stop saying unkind things. Then I would move my child away from him.