obnoxious child in park

[devonshiredumpling]

is it unreasonable of me to expect a child to have parental control in a park i visited today this child managed to upset both my children today especially my youngest who was playing footprints in the sandpit only to have this darlingboy scrub away all her prints as he did not like them he also bugged them on all the other equipment they were on wanting to get on then thirty seconds get off this happened all the time we were there (did i mention this was the only time that my youngest had played anywhere in sand as she detested before today and her playing in the sand was a big thing for her)

Smoking and drinking is the only way to get through a visit to the park

I think maybe you need to relax and not be seeing other kids even bigger ones as somehow being threats to your childrens ability to enjoy stuff... go to the beach there'll be big kids kicking balls, running, etc go swimming you know there'll be splashing... thats what happens when you live in a community

she was smoking and drinking? or did you just judge her to be that kind of person?

I think some of you are being rather harsh. It sounds like this boy was having his fun by following the OPs children around and bothering them.

I don't think I would have spoken to the parent, but I would certainly have spoken to the boy and asked him to wait his turn or not to deliberately muck up the sand play of a toddler, or try and engage him. Maybe he was looking for playmates and didn't know how to go about it. Maybe he'd asked his Mum to play with him and she didn't want to. You could have asked him to help your DD build something in the sand.

Haven't read the thread so apologies if it has moved on, but yabu OP.

If you think a boy rubbing out footprints in the sand is bad behaviour of the sort to be remarked upon, then I would suggest you are quite --soft in the head- highly strung.

Suggest the imminent obtaining of a grip.

Had you not thought of just pleasantly chatting to the boy? Friendliness gets you much further. It sounds as if he was on his own and given a bit of encouragement would have played/helped your DC-even the toughest looking can be quite sweet. My DSs had a much older brother so they would toddle up to play equipment even if (threatening looking) teenagers were sitting on it. The teenagers always moved.

ARF either this is a piss take or quite frankly OP you are barking
ARF "the drinking somking type" I LOVE IT

SMOKING