to be pissed off at this?

[Winedine69me]

Hello, this is my first thread on here so be gentle with me :).

DH, DS (aged 2.3 )and I went to the park today and after a while of playing in the smaller playground, we went to the bigger playground. Of course, there were loads of kids, obviously that is fine. DS wanted to play with this number card sliding thing underneath a big climbing frame (hope that makes sense).

Like all kids do, he ran towards it to play with it, then this dad saw he wanted to play, pushed him to the side so he could carry on playing with his daughter (she was on the other side of this thing) so DS went to the other side and then the daughter (roughly 12 yrs) pushed him so hard he almost fell over . The dad didn't react to it and I'm still learning the language so I just said 'Please don't'. To honest I was very shocked and frustrated at myself that I couldn't say what I wanted to.

I was more shocked at the dad because it seems like he is raising her to think that kind of behaviour is acceptable.

So, AIBU?

YANBU But if you've got toddlers, keep them in the smaller playground where they're only likely to encounter children their own size. Bigger children can be really rough and some parents are just as bad. Another time, shout in your own language... they'll get the message.

A 12 yr old should know not to push a toddler.
YDANBU

What country are you in?

YANBU. What a terrible example this dad is setting to his DD and how awful that he let a 12 year old push a 2 year old.

yanbu. i would be furious if i saw an ADULT doing that to a 2 year old. it must have been very frutrating for you to not be able to say what you wanted. rest assured that your ds will not be as affected as you have been. he will have forgotten about it. agree with others, stick to smaller playground with little ones.

Thanks for all of the replies.

We did spend some time in the smaller playground.
The bigger playground has a section for smaller children and one for bigger ones. The dad and the daughter were in the smaller childrens area. That adds to my frustration.

Ha, next time I will shout in English and hope they will get the message.

That is very true my DS won't remember but I don't want to him feel that it's acceptable for adults to treat children that way.

I don't expect every parent or child to move aside for younger children but simply saying 'We're playing with this now, but we'll be finished in a minute' would have sufficed instead of pushing.

I'm in Poland.

Thanks again, I feel better ranting at people who can understand what I am saying :)