To have corrected this child when his mother didn't.

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Background, we were at birthday party for a 6 year old. There were anout 16 kids at it ... 4 mum's present to supervise.

One boy was rude all day and just causing havoc.
He was upsetting all the kids , calling them names and using really bad language. The mum was there and just laughed everything off, didn't once correct him.
I ignored him and his mum as much as I could until he pushed another boy off a trampoline and the other boy was screaming in pain. Tg no damage done...no head injury or broken bones....but I'd say a good bit of bruising.
At which stage I brought the boy back to his mum and asked her to deal with him as he had injured other child ( who's mum wasn't there). She just laughed it off at which stage I explained to her ds how dangerous it was and that the other boy could have been very badly hurt. cos she wasnt about to explain it to him!
I asked him to apologise and he downright refused.
I went back to injured boy and the mum said the injured boy had started the argument at which point I said that her ds still shouldn't have done what he did. The mum said it was none of my business but I felt there was no one there to stick up for the injured boy as his mum was not present.
Did I overstep the mark ?
By the way I know for a fact this boy has no special needs etc as I know the background well.... if he did, I would of course have handled it differently. I was more annoyed with the mum than the boy tbh!

You did the right and proper thing here, sometimes a misbehaved child might take more notice of some chastisement from another person,as opposed to their parent..

I'd make sure both children were safe & removed from the situation. But get involved with 'telling off' someone else's child? Nope. You don't know how the child or parent will react.
Plus a quiet word with mum might get her on side. Publicly telling off her child is very unlikely to have that effect... more likely to make her defensive

If you saw it happen then it was your business. The boys mother is out of order.

Horrible child horrible parent..well done you..yanbu!!!!

I believe we are all responsible in society & not saying anything perpetuates the problem

I wouldn't have told the boy off but would have challenged his mum more. Also whoever was in charge of the party i would have said the boy was causing an issue. I definitely would have taken the boy who was hurt to one side & made a fuss of him, making sure he knew it wasn't his fault. But from what you've said the boy needs more supervision & that's the parents role

I agree completely

For real?

I would have done the same....this is what's wrong with society nowadays.Ignoring bad behaviour because we are not responsible/doesn't concern us untill we have lunatics terrorising all of us then we take it to social media 🙄
A 6 year old is well capable of containing themselves....my nearly 4 year old wouldn't get away with it!

I imagine that boy has no respect for his mother either. If she doesn't start parenting him soon he'll end up bullying her and making her life a misery.

I believe very strongly in community parenting. If a kid is acting up and their parents are not dealing with it than others should step in, otherwise a whole generation will be raised to be spoilt brats and Britain will be a broken society.

I'd lay bets that this rude kid's mum thinks she's a bloody brilliant mum
Don't they always???