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Zara84 · 05/09/2023 23:14

Hi

So I tok by dc2 to the park today - he was on a swing for about 2 mins when a girl about 8-9ywars old along with her 4-5 year old brother came and said they wanted a gon, I explained that my son had just got on and if they would please wait a few minutes - the girl huffed and screamed to her mum; now the mum is over (they are so close that I cannot push the swing without it hitting them) I try to take sone out and he starts screaming so I say he isn’t ready can w E have a few more minutes as he just got in less than 5 mins ago. The mum stands there saying well
her son wants a go and that I should teach my son to share - I explain he’s been unwell so is moody at the moment and if he could have a few more mins to avoid a meltdown. She says he looks sleepy and unwell and y is he in a park I then ask her to mind her language and not speak about my son - she turns to her kids and says that woman is v rude and just wait here, they wait in my face snapping their feet. She then proceeds to hold teh Swing and Ask her son to get on with my son in it : I say no and she says well I’m teaching him to share ; I say no he doesn’t know ur son and he’s a stranger please let go of the swing and il take him out - she says maybe that’s better as he probably has a disease. To my barelu turned 2 year old son!

i just lost it and yes swore at her and gave her a peace of my mind.

she calls 8 adults 3 men 5 women who entered r the park running at me as I’m with my 2 y old about to leave and they ask me what my problem is. - I politely say I will not be bullied and how pathetic the whole thing is… I say I feel harrasedand will call the police if they follow me - they don’t after of course exchanging some
words

im shocked - was I wrong to have a go at her? Is it okay to behave the ways he did!

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Tothemoonandbackx · 05/09/2023 23:34

Some kids pick up their bad habits from their parents, they're probably used to getting everything they want and don't understand when they don't get their own way. My DD will throw tantrums when she can't get on something straight away, and I just tell her she has to wait like everyone else does. But I also won't let other people's kids take the piss either. My DD had been waiting to go on one of those netted swings you can lye down on, and when she was just about to climb on it, I saw another girl running up and nearly lmock her off!!! I ran up and put my DD on it and the little girl said she wanted to go on it. I told her that she'll just have to wait until my DD has had her turn and turned my back on her, she kept mithering she wanted a go and it was annoying but I just ignored her until she eventually went away and played on something else that was available, kids have to learn they can't always get what they want, and if the parents get involved, we'll, they're just completely bonkers.

Tothemoonandbackx · 05/09/2023 23:35

*nearly knock her off

Isittimeformynapyet · 05/09/2023 23:44

What an unusual experience OP. This woman's behaviour is hard to imagine!

Did she phone the 8 people? Or did she have a special whistle or something that summoned them all at once to the park?

Zara84 · 05/09/2023 23:55

I have no idea - 2 cars turned up with 2 men 4 grown women and 2 teenage girls

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Zara84 · 05/09/2023 23:56

I think I am quite shaken by it all tbh

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SheSaidHummingbird · 06/09/2023 00:21

Okay.

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