WIBU in the park today

[Bobbybobbins]

This maybe a case of me needing to keep my big mouth shut

Was at the park today with my two DS and friends and all playing on the climbing frame/slide. My younger DS who is 1 had just come down on his front and in the process of moving out of the way. Another little boy comes down right behind him (it's a very wide and quite steep slide) so I grabbed DS and said to other boy 'oops be careful darling'.

His mum is not impressed obviously and says to me 'he's only 2 and he doesn't understand'. No problem. But then (this is what annoyed me) cue sarcastic comments to her friend about me and my other son (who has autism) who takes a while to get on and get down the slide.

And to me, if my son was going down so close behind another child, I would explain to him why this isn't a good idea.

Sounds like the other mum was a bit childish tbh. You said it in a nice way.

Don't let her spoil your day. Forget about her.

I'd have said in response to her " he's only 2 " comment that she needs to keep a better eye on him them!

If he's too young to understand, his mum should be watching him better, it's not like you yelled at him, you told him what his mother should have! And making comments about your son is bloody rude! You were being bloody reasonable to not give her a good telling off!

The irony was that about 10 minutes later he was being shouted at for something and made to sit out. I felt like saying 'if you'd told him how to behave earlier.....'