This happened earlier and really annoyed me, though I'm not sure if I'm annoyed at myself or the woman for criticising me.
I was going out with my children, dd2 in pram and ds4 walking at the side. My son has always been fantastic at walking, never runs off and always holds hands or holds the pram (dd is absolute opposite!) We'd left the house and I realised I'd forgotten something I needed to post. We'd just come out of our front garden and my son was holding onto the pram on the path. I told him to wait there while I nipped back for the letter. I was gone probably less than a minute, and it was about 15 steps from the pram to our house.
I came back to the pram and a car reversed down the road towards me, so I assumed they were wanting directions or something. The car pulled up and the woman driving said 'oh we thought they were by themselves.' I just smiled and said 'oh no it's ok I just nipped back for something', and thought that was the end of the conversation. All the time getting looks off her passenger. The driver then very condecendingly said to me 'you want to be careful, he could have run straight into the road'. And then drove off.
I felt really annoyed that this woman had decided to reverse down the road to say this to me, and spoke to me as if I was a negligent parent. But then I started to wonder whether I was being negligent, and it just worried me (I'm a massive worrier!) that this woman obviously thought I was out of order enough that she needed to come back and speak to me. AIBU?