to have said this to someone else's child?

[Busybecca]

At a wedding today, there was a bouncy castle and some boys of about 5/6 told my DD to get off because she's a baby. She told them she wasn't going anywhere and that she's nearly 4, not a baby. She has speech delay and a speech impediment and the boys howled with laughter and told her she speaks like a 'stupid idiot baby' and that the castle was for big boys like them. DD was on the verge of tears so I went over and said that if they were such big boys they would know not to be so rude and unkind to others. One of their mums overheard and came over to glare at me but didn't reprimand her son. I told DD to carry on bouncing and the boys scurried off. WIBU?

YANBU. well done to DD for carrying on and good for you for standing up for her.

Nah, you handled it well.

YABU to expect the mum to tell him off, though. That'll be where his attitudes came from.

You did what I would have thought of hours later when the moment had passed. Good for you.

Yanbu. I'd have said far worse to them. Spiteful little shits.

YABU. You should have punched them square in the face, and said 'stitch that cunts!'

joking....

YANBU! If I was a parent of one of them i wouldn't glare at you, I'd be having some very stern words with my child and make them apologise to your daughter.

I would have told the mother to her face how vicious and nasty her hideous child is.

Yanbu
You handled it very well and your DD is a credit to you.

Yanbu. Well done!

Good for you OP.

You have had an eventful wedding!

YWBU well done

Meant YWNBU!

Well done OP! You absolutely did the right thing :)

Well done OP! The mum probably glared at you because she's probably vile herself. Any decent person would have told off their child for nasty behavior like that.

Well done OP! You handled it so much better than I probably would have done!

YANBU

Apart from adding the comment "you ignorant little shits" under my breath I'd have said the same thing to them.

I have no problem speaking to other people's children about unacceptable behaviour.

I'm quite happy to discuss it with the parents too but funnily enough no one has ever approached me afterwards.

I'm very careful not to shout or use any language that could be deemed inappropriate though.

You did brilliantly, they were foul little buggers.

NotKnown

Howling at that...

Yep you did the right thing. I'd have done the same. I would have also asked you what was going on if I were the other mother. At least she came along and minded her kids, even if she didn't say anything.

I would have had a pop at the grarey mum too asked if she had a problem.

You handled it well.

I think posters are being harsh on the boys, though.

At 5, you start to tell them that they have to do/can't have things, because they are big and not a baby.

So younger children are babies.

They needed pulling up on the teasing, but if they aren't being told by their Parents, they will continue.

You did well OP. I would probably have inwardly seethed and then wished I had said something later.

YWNBU. If my ds did this at the age of 5 he would get a row and be made to apologise. Children know right from wrong at that age if they have been brought up with manners rather than with entitlement.