Took dd (18mo) to a local park this morning. It's a huge playground with plenty of play equipment. there were only two other families there, so not at all crowded.
There was a little girl of around 4 who came over to us as soon as we got there. I said hello, then asked dd what she wanted to go on. From that point until we left, everything dd pointed to to go on, this little girl ran to, and tried to get on first. This meant that dd had to wait every single time she wanted to use the equipment, despite the park being nearly empty.
The little girl would wait for dd to go on something, then wait to see what she wanted to go on next and beat her to it every single time. I felt this was really unfair, as most of the things only one child can use at a time, it wasn't as if they could play together on them.
The mother was nearby the whole time and didn't say a thing. I think if the roles were reversed, I would have tried to encourage dd to leave us alone rather than following us around the whole time and would have put a stop to the other behaviour. It came across as though she didn't want dd to be able to go on anything and was trying to stop her. It wasn't very nice at all. Aibu? If you were the other mum would you have tried to stop it?
dd was very good and waited her turn every time, but I could see it was frustrating for her. Especially when the girl spent a long time on each thing.
I know it's not a huge deal, it just seemed quite unfair on dd really. Willing to be told I need to get a grip though!