To think softplay isn’t an appropriate place for a business meeting?

[Giraffesandbottom]

One of my afternoons where older sibling is at nursery so I have one on one time with my toddler. 1 hour at softplay absolutely ruined as a mother was having some sort of business meeting with another mother, and just let her child run absolutely amok. Everything my toddler wanted to do, he just blocked him from doing. I did all the “sharing would be nice” “it’s his turn now” with increasing volume whilst looking at his mother imploringly. She saw me, smiled and carried on. At some points he was literally yelling “mama mama!” For help and getting absolutely ignored.

don’t take your children to softplay if you aren’t actually going to supervise them ffs it ruins it for everyone!

I'm guessing they were "boss babes"

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This is how they run their "busy" and can have all the time with their children. (Or something)

How bizarre. I have never heard of anybody having a business meeting with a child present let alone at soft play!

Some people bring their dc to soft play precisely because they don't want to supervise them.

@Deadringer

i think you are right!!

😂

One thing I have realised in my 60 years is I don't care what people think and I would have gone over to this woman and told her to supervise her child as he was being a bully.

I love softplay with my DS but my god she parents just think they're absolved of responsibility while they're there. My DS has another kids piss on his knees yesterday because a woman was letting her piss soaked kid keep playing.

Next time go get the mum and tell her that her kid needs supervision.

When I used to go to softplay with my dc during the school holidays there would always be a few mums with laptops working while their dc played. Mostly older dc though rather than toddlers.

I was extremely tempted to say something but it was just 3 of us in there (the feckless parent, her business buddy and me) so it was just v awkward and I could tell from her totally ignoring my universal code for “come and deal with your child” that she was not going to be receptive. I felt v sorry for the child though - he was badly behaved but clearly due to being ignored

This would annoy me. A month or so ago I was having a really stressful time and so decided to take my daughter to an inflatable bouncy thing (the giant indoor bouncy castle kind of thing) so that we could have an hour away from the stress and enjoy some time together. There were two ladies with a young boy who played with him for a bit but then he was on his own for ages and kept following us around and wanting to play, my daughter is quite a bit younger and she was too shy and scared so basically didn't want to do anything if he was there. We had an hour that I had paid for and I was getting fed up so honestly we just kept going off into other things because otherwise our whole hour was entertaining this boy whilst my daughter wasn't enjoying it at all. The mums were just sitting chatting not paying attention, so annoying! I felt bad for the boy but it's not up to me to keep him company when I really needed that time with my daughter 🙄

@lovesT

i relate to this! It’s horrible when your trying to spend time with your child and as you say you feel sorry for the other children but I already have another child and this was my chance to have one on one!

*you’re

I don't know, Ed Balls tells a funny story about trying to finalise the Budget with colleagues whilst in a ball pit with his daughter.....

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@lovesT ive had that recently while the mother sat enjoying a fry up and her bored older DD latched on to us, bothering my toddler. So annoying.

OP this is the thread for me today because we’ve been to soft play and seen the same family again today who sit staring at their devices while their tiny toddler stands at the bottom of every slide refusing to move. Supervise your kid!

It actually looked like quite a legit meeting they had a pad and paper and everything

@myyellowcar

did you repeatedly and loudly ask the child to move whilst casting increasingly desperate and annoyed glances at the parents

I think I’d have told the staff that the parent was holding a work meeting and not supervising their child.

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@Lunificent

i did also consider this but again it was just the 3 of us and it would have been so awkward!

Definitely a meeting of the "boss babes". Did they have coloured pens as well?

@WhiteFire

no coloured pens, sadly