OK, I know I am probably overreacting, and unreasonable, but this kid is driving me bats, and I need to vent. I have namechanged, because I don't want my personal details to attach to this post, iyswim?
My 3 yo DD has swimming lessons in a beautiful pool, with nice instructors and poolside parents. But there is this almost 4 yo boy in her class who is completely out of control. By which I mean, running around the poolside, including close to the deep end, splashing the instructor and in particular, my DD (she is the only girl, and the youngest), not waiting for his turn and pushing in front of my DD, never listens to the teacher... and today, I saw him push my DD into the water from the edge. Luckily the teacher was standing close by, and grabbed her. My DD is luckily, a very laid back kid, and never retaliates, and she also knows her limits... and we've been very careful to explain to her what acceptable behaviour is.
All us parents are usually sat by the poolside, and his mum always laughs, and talks about her hyperactive DS... never once has she just said, now stop that, or that's not nice to him (other parents have told off their misbehaving kids, as have I once, when DD was being naughty). His mum's told us about how he has been kicked out of has been taken out of preschool, and no one understands him, and how she's had to defend him etc etc... he does all sorts of other lessons to, and apparently is hyperactive there as well. She seems like a nice woman, but she also spends her time just sitting with her phone, texting or something, and has never once said anything to her son when he's basically disrupting the lesson.
Its annoying to have to stand there and not be able to say anything... as far as I can see, a sharp scold to the kid would probably do wonders... but the teacher is very young and incredibly patient, I would have snapped by now, and the whole lesson is getting to be about trying to keep this one kid in order.
I am really beginning to resent it, and getting more and more crabby that I am paying for these lessons in a nice place, with a lovely teacher but they're being completely disrupted by this little terror. As there are only usually 4 - 5 kids in the half hour session, the parents have sort of got to know each other. I feel terrible that I am being so resentful of one of them, and I know a couple of the other mums are feeling the same way about this boy, and I can only imagine what that poor teacher must be feeling!!
I have no idea what to say or do in the circumstances, and really needed a rant, so thanks for listening, and feel free to call me U, but I am really annoyed and angry about it.