Staying at a 5 star resort in Europe very expensive lots of very rich people m (also along with people like us who save up to go once a year).
Sat down at lunch earlier next to a dad (or possibly grandad I couldn’t tell to be honest) with two kids around 12YO. One boy one girl. They clearly had a lot of money and were quite posh.
The whole hour though the adult (dad/grandad) was absolutely laying into the boy. I felt really uncomfortable. Not the odd insult it was a constant stream of you’re rude, goodnsss know what you’re going to turn out like, I don’t know why you are how you are, I’m sick of seeing you, I don’t want to hear from you again all holiday. On and on and on. The boy didn’t say much all hour but didn’t appear sullen or moody just lost. It was horrible and just simple and plain bullying for an hour. From an adult.
I get that the odd comment like that may slip out from a parent in a fit of rage or when tired or over stimulated but it was the constant stream of it for so long that was nasty and it wasn’t someone at the end of their tether just saying god I’m sick of this holiday. It was bullying.
Before anyone flames me I also know I just saw a snippet, I know it was just an hour, I know I don’t know the back story. Also the table was right there so I couldnt
Not hear and I had time to listen as I was there on my own during most of the meal.
But from what I saw it wasn’t parenting it was down right bullying and I feel terribly sad for the boy. Hard to explain unless you were there.
What would you have done? Just listened uncomfortably like me? I wish I’d told the adult he was a bully.