To be frustrated with parents' over involvement in dc's lives

[Lookandlearn]

Am cross with myself-let dd take something into school yesterday and it's been lent and lost. For me that's our lesson to learn, a frustration but no biggie. but the other parent has been over the top. Not apologised as such but just mithering over the whole thing and making so much more of it than needs be. I guess it's embarrassment and she may also be cross with me for letting it arise in the first place but I just want to move on. Quickly!

what other parent?

Lockets, i have learnt from this one, as if I shouldn't know already, that taking bits and bobs into school not helpful. That's why I felt apologetic really, like I'd put the other parent in a fix. I don't think I explained all that well, not easy to type but it's just that I guess a quick "really sorry, x has lost y. " would do it. Making too much of it just makes me feel silly and cringe for having let dd take it to school all over again. I certainly don't feel the other parent should feel mortified over a five year old losing something. It's an accident waiting to happen!

Have the other parent offered to replace said object?

The thread title is a bit of an over-generalisation, not to say an over-reaction, don't you think?.

I think that's a fair point pterosaur! Fabbychic, no offer of replacement. I'd naturally refuse it! But would secretly make me feel better if it was offered. But I do feel I should genuinely know better than to allow dd to take things into school and so therefore it's at least a no blame situation. Maybe she does just genuinely feel awful about it and doesn't know that the reaction is annoying me much more than the loss itself!