to tell a child off today

[ineedapoo]

Local park child about 9 older tha rest pushing and treading on other children Mum just saying good boy

Good for you

i stood on my dd foot and i just snapped don't tread on feet he ran of to his mum

should be he stood

What exactly did you say to him? And what reaction did you get from the mother? This is more out of curiousity than anything tbh, as I think YANBU as long as you didn't go OTT with the way you spoke to him.

Just said don't tread on peoples's feet please. Mum glared at me

Well you did nothing wrong, the mum was probably just one of those 'my kid can't do anything wrong' types. Well done for standing your ground :).

"good boy" ??

I think it was for climbing on the equipment well no sure if it was for the rude behaviour

Do people say good boy to 9 year olds? Was the kid definitly not SN? Just curious if he was being a brat good on you for telling him off

Well said. If you think about it, it shows your DD that it is okay to stand up for yourself without being agressive. I bet the other mum was embarrassed rather than annoyed at you.

I'd have no problem with someone correcting my 9 year old. As long as they didn't go over the top in the way that some people with a small child can do. You were well within your rights OP, but "good boy" does sound odd for a 9 year old - are you sure he wasn't younger?

Even is he did have some kind of SN, being told firmly and directly that doing something they did was wrong (weather they noticed they did it or not) I feel is right to let them know.

Their parent may not always like it that much (agree it's probably more that they were embarrassed not to have noticed it themselves) but it's not being unkind to the child, it's not physically hurting the child, it's just firm words to help guide them for future.

thanks for the feed back