I was invited out this morning with some neighbours who are good friends. The husband is known to be snappy and to have little patience with his own children.
In the space of an hour, he told my 4 year old daughter to 'stop whining' and in a cafe, he snapped at her to 'OI, STOP THAT' when she kicked him under the table ( she was doing it playfully). My daughter burst into tears and came and sat on my lap. When his wife, who is a good friend, commented to him to calm down, he agressively responded 'Its not my problem if she's crying cos I told her off for not kicking me. She can deal with it'.
She is 4.
I said nothing as I didn't want to upset his wife, who I know was mortified.
I really want to email him tomorrow to tell him how inappropriate and uncalled for it was. AIBU? What would you do?
PS. The ironic thing is, he has an obnoxious daughter who is really badly behaved and I say nothing!