about feeling a little traumatised by two girls laying into ds today?

[ipanemagirl]

we were in a london park today and my ds was in the sand pit. He ran over to me in tears saying these two girls, unprovoked, had started kicking and punching him and throwing sand in his face. He was really shaken and tearful. He said the shouted at them to stop and pushed the worst over. The mother then approached and the two girls ran off.
I didn't see what happened
But ds is invariable honest about this kind of thing - his teachers say so. And his behaviour was consistent with someone who was really surprised by laid into. He said they were whispering before they started and he was playing on his own near the little playhouse in the sandpit.
Any way he showed me the girls and they were SO YOUNG! ds Is 6 and these two looked 3 yrs old? I took one look at mother and was too cowardly to go ask her what she saw. Wish I had now.
But she was suddenly dealing with the instigator who was having an enormous kick-off tantrum so we left the park.
I feel a little ridiculous because my ds shouldn't be picked on by tinies should he? But he was really surprised I think and unprepared.
Any way - Is this very uncommon? Has anyone else seen girls do this?

sorry I meant to say near the playhouse they were playing in. They were still there when he pointed them out to me and seemed pretty territorial about it. I wonder if he was sitting too close or something?

if they were 3 ish, then i wud say this is normal toddler behaviour, i frequently have to ds doing dtuff like this. if they were older, then id say yes totally unprevoked and nasty

*stop ds

thanks busybean, ds is 6 now and is quite a gentle soul so I've probably forgotten that kickass behaviour. Except that it seemed odd that two of them went for him, or maybe not. Judging by her behaviour later - she looked like a little vortex of hell so maybe he just got too close to her lair!

I know I'm over-sensitive at the moment because ds was bullied last year by two 'friends' of this quite nastily really. The school was brilliant and both boys have big issues at home which explains their behaviour a bit and it's stopped now. Also ds has punched the main perpertrator this term and that was the final end to it.