To want to shout at this bloody child..

[Wilberforce2]

Not sure if I'm being a bit precious but this is driving me mental.

Every Tuesday my ds does rugby 4-5 and as they are only reception and year 1 all of the parents stay. I like staying and enjoy watching him but one of the little girls of another parent is doing my head in. I have a 4 month old dd and every week this little girl does not leave her alone, constantly plays with the hood on the pram (pushing it backwards and forwards), putting her fingers in the babies mouth, kissing her on the lips, takes her toys/muslin off of her, pokes her eyes it just goes on and on. Last week this girl had a heavy cold and was constantly wiping snot around her face then walked over to dd in her pram (I dared to take my eyes off of her for a second) and stuck her fingers in her mouth, Friday my dd gets an awful cold. The mum just laughs and says "oh she is so motherly" or "she just loves babies" but I want her to tell her to leave her alone for one fricking second. Today I told the girl no a few times and had a couple of looks from the mum who then said "oh *** come over here darling I don't think you are wanted" but I can't just watch her prod and poke her for an hour, she was trying to put a pine cone in her mouth then whipped her with a muslin!

Am I being precious or would you keep telling the girl no? Little girl is 2 years old. Older brother is in my ds's class so I don't want to cause an argument.

don't you think she might just be a bit young to understand exactly what she should and shouldn't do?

She's clearly too young to be allowed to wander around a playing field unsupervised. Again, goes back to lazy parenting. How many responsible parents would allow a two-yr old to wander around doing exactly what they want in a public place, without keeping an eye on them?

inspace sorry to burst your bubble but none of my children have ever pinched or hurt someone else's child. So I suppose that makes you... pretty crap at judging a person based on what they put on an internet forum...?

Fucking hell - is this really still going on?

Mother of 2 year old is a lazy mare who is using the hour as an excuse to palm her kid off onto someone else.

2 year old is being a PITA, but she's 2 - her mother needs to keep a better eye on her and stop her from putting her manky hands in a baby's mouth.

OP - good luck with trying to persuade lazy mare to keep an eye on her offspring, regardless of how you do that.

Easy peasy.

I have to admit, the first time she poked my baby I would have taken her back to her mum and said, please keep her away from my baby, she's poking her'

I agree, most mothers would be able to handle this situation - but not everyone feels so confident, and may be fearful of causing offence. Which is probably why the opening post was opened in the first place, to ask for advice

Agree. Sometimes you just want to go and watch your child play a game of whatever, without having to deal with other people's kids because their parents can't be arsed.

yes evans, therefore no-one should have been rubbing their hands in glee at the opportunity to boast about how they would be all too happy to be "rude and forthright" and tell this annoying snotty nosed brat to basically fuck off. if you can't see that some of the comments have been bitchy, you need to learn to read tbh.

Oh, I see, sorry Vampyre, your children are complete angels.My bad.

Wanting to shout at a 2 year old; to call up a mum on her ineffective parenting; to refer to said 2 year old as "snotty" - that's BAAAAD!!!

But to actually insult and swear at the people on this thread who don't agree with you? Oh that's OK!

Only on Mumsnet...

space are you as dumb as you're coming across? so in your world, a child is either an unruly, baby-poking nuisance or an angel? or maybe I'm just not a lazy, inconsiderate arse of a parent?

Tanith the OP has misplaced anger. She admits that she struggles with confrontation. Instead of dealing with that issue she directs her anger to a person who has been alive for 2 years.

Personally I find that strange.

you need to learn to read tbh

Really? Thanks for that, Vampyre - and I think you need to learn some manners. But there you go

Again Vampyre, you're just coming across as a nasty piece of work I'm afraid. My post was tongue in cheek. It's called SARCASM. You may have heard of it.

very original :)

She's venting on MN - not actually directing her anger at a 2 year old. Keep it factual.

She hasn't directed her anger at anyone. She is venting.

XXed - OP didn't direct her anger TO the 2-yr old. As far as I can make out (having read, with my obvious limited reading skills) she was inwardly cross. She has neither shouted nor directed any mean comments TO the toddler. She was venting and asking for advice.

The anger and frustration in her post is directed at a 2 year old. Just because she hasn't acted on her feeling doesn't mean its not there.

again space kudos to you for your superior judging of character skills but I won't lose sleep over your opinion. just add any of my 'nasty' comments to the existing list of nastiness on this thread.

Ahhh - but if we accept that she wasn't actually planning to shout at the 2 year old and was instead just venting then we couldn't get our high horse out of its stable, could we? It wouldn't be nearly so much fun

Just because she hasn't acted on her feeling doesn't mean its not there

So she's there and she's venting. So what? Are you new to MN?! It's what we do

I am not sure what you mean.

The situation she finds herself in is fairly common, what is unusual is her inability to deal with it. I don't think by pointing out the obvious I am sitting on a high horse.

I'm not sure, I would say it was a peculiar urge for someone to have but yeah, thankfully for the kid, she managed not to..