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.
AIBU?
To want to shout at this bloody child..
Wilberforce2 · 24/06/2014 21:20
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I don't like children much 
Other peoples get on my nerves and if they had a snotty nose even worse.
Clearly Im a psychopath < shrug>
But she has let her InSpaceNooneCanHearYouScream - that is the reason for the thread. 
It's a particular bug-bear of mine, I hate it when people call kids awesome or similar words because of how it homogenizes them. I think it really is an affront to their individuality.
Do you feel the same way when people say 'I love cats/dogs/chips'?
vampyre I think you are deliberately misinterpreting anything that you don't agree with, to suit your own unusual agenda. silly made some really good points, you didn't agree with them, fair enough but then you swear at her and query her career choice. That was just rude.
Fwiw, I also work with children and I love my job, but that doesn't mean I view every child with the same rose-coloured glasses you appear to wear. I agree with silly children are individuals, they, like all of us, have good and bad points, to say they are all 'awesome' is incredibly twee. And don't even think about questioning why I chose my job....it's none of your business tbh!
I honestly can't believe this thread is still going on, I'm agog at some of the crap things that have been written. I think we're mostly(!!) in agreement that the toddler was wrong to be poking the baby, the toddlers mother should stop her, as she didn't then the op should stop her. Which the op did. It's not rocket science.....
mrs the hating toddlers thing was, quite obviously, a joke. I do think it's true that some people on this thread don't like children that much...
math of course the word no is involved. However, I don't feel angry with my toddlers when they are just being toddlers and pushing the boundaries as young children do. Op did not ask 'wibu to tell this child 'no'', was she?
silly I don't know why you don't understand it. I've read it back and to me, it's coherent enough.
lady I don't care why you chose your job. god knows what you mean by unusual agenda but I think it's pretty rich of you to be calling me rude... yes, children have their good points and bad points - obviously 
do you say all this to someone who says they don't like kids?
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