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Surely this is strange behaviour

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Fedup360 · 19/12/2025 13:10

I went to my child’s nursery nativity today and there was a mum there, When the show ended the children were allowed to go and see there parents for a bit before going back into nursery, this woman laid her child on the floor and straddled her, tickling and kissing her, and then threw her up in the air laid on her own back and put the child on top of her hugging her and tickling again, she did the same thing at a birthday party a few months ago too, is it just me or is straddling / sitting on top of a 3 year old weird as hell. I don’t know something about it just seemed off. It was busy so I don’t know if any nursery staff saw it, but if I worked at a nursery I would find that quite concerning.

I know there will be people who say I should mind my own business and I am, I didn’t say a word but it’s niggling me. I’m not against hugging or tickling that’s fine, I hug and tickle my own children, but sitting on top of the child is the part I find bizarre, if nothing else the weight of a full grown woman on a child is surely painful

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FestiveBauble · 19/12/2025 13:16

I don’t see that as odd? I’m sure she’s supporting her weight on her legs, not placing it on the child.

TheLightSideOfTheMoon · 19/12/2025 13:17

She’s batshit.

Fair enough in their own home but rolling around on the floor in public is odd.

Notdanishsusan · 19/12/2025 13:21

But bystanders often don’t know the context. When I drop my son off at school he always likes to give me a kiss, a hug, touch foreheads, rub noses, final kiss.

It probably looks really OTT but he developed it as a sequence and would be unsettled to just go in without it.

It might just be a thing that they do together and children like to recreate these sorts of interactions.

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JudgeBread · 19/12/2025 13:22

Was the child laughing and enjoying the interaction?

Fedup360 · 19/12/2025 13:22

I can understand that.

and no the child was just laying there with no expression.

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