I don't eyeroll at children. I do however eyeroll very occasionally at utterly ineffectual parents who let their DCs get away with all kinds of crap behaviour.
See, this is the thing. The person doing the continual dialogue of what other, unknown to us, children were doing is actually the parent of 2 DC's who are very much the same. Her choice is the ignore route, fair enough, but I don't get how you can hoik your judgy pants at a child who yells 'Oh my god' loudly in the park when your children do the same and often with a 'I hate you' and slap her at the same time.
I think I spent a whole hour saying - they're just children, children often have emotional outbursts, children often wind each other up the wrong way, children do argue. I kept saying lot's of children did the same things - Basically saying to ignore it as they'll find their way in the social world by learning through mistakes and sucessess. I even suggested next time we sit further away as if they had 100m+ to come and 'tell tales' they may feel less inclined to do so!
I am torn between wondering if my friend is truely blinkered to the behaviour of her DC's or is trying to make hers look less unbehaved by pointing out others? Hers are very vocal and she hates it when other adults pull them up on rudeness, always defending them - so wonder why she would do it to others?
Just for the record - my DS has social problems so I KNOW he isn't perfect 