Soft Play Arghhhh!

[TaleasoldasTimee]

Do you ever tell someone else's child off or physically intervene?

Took DD (nearly 2yo) to soft play today (I know)! She was in the music room dancing with me and a boy comes over about 4yo. He watched DD for a couple of seconds then pushes her straight over for no reason! As she's getting up he does to shove her again I managed to scoop DD out of the way. In a very stern voice I told him not to push.

Boy runs off past another little girl about 18 months old. He notices her, turns around and starts pulling at the back of her t-shirt by the neck. He has some of her hair too. Little girls is trying to run away crying but isn't strong enough! I'm the nearest adult so yes I pulled the boys hand from the girls t-shirt. Little girls mum comes and scoops her up. I tell the boy to leave alone.

Little boy's dad finally comes over (wasn't sure who his parent was) and pulls him away. No apology or fuck all I received dirty looks from him and his group for the next hour

Yes I tell other kids off all the time if they’re being shits. You did the right thing.

Yes, absolutely I would have done the same as you.

Yep you did the right thing. He gets away with that kind of thing as he obviously gets no discipline at home!

Thanks. I couldn't believe how calculating he was

I sure do. Told an 8 year off for chucking a ball at my 3 year old’s face in a splash park last week.

You did the right thing. If I was the 18mo mother is be glad you intervened. Even if I was the 4yo boys mother and my son was acting like that and being rough with other kids of want someone to intervene, if I hadn't noticed. Id be mortified if my child was acting that way, but kids need to know it's not ok to treat other people like that.

Yes I do and have done I don't take my kids anywhere near these places as I cannot be arsed with the types of parents these places seem to attract that use the centre as an excuse to let there kids run wild. Not all parents are like it I know this but there seems to be a great deal of them in these places and it drives me mad

You did exactly the right thing!

"I couldn't believe how calculating he was"

It is a normal part of development, it just needs correcting by the Adults around them.

If a child is going to physically hurt another child, especially one smaller than them, it's always right to intervene.

We were on a Nursery day out and rather than cause any bad feeling, bought my GD away, when another child was being nasty. But in any other setting, I would have told him off.

Watching the "Secret life of the zoo", the 'toddler' elephant always picked on the new baby. It made me laugh when she slyly sidled over and then gave her a kick and ran.