After school on Monday my daughter was stopped in the playground by another mother (who didn’t see that I was also there). I could see her speaking to my daughter for quite a while (year 5) from a distance and could tell something was up.
I went up to ask the mother and my daughter what was going on. Her daughter (let’s call her Mary) was sat on the floor sobbing. The mum shrugged me off obviously not wanting to talk to me, and said she didn’t know why her daughter was so upset but that she’d mentioned my DD.
I said I’d give her a minute and went to speak to my own daughter sperately who said something had happened in the classrooom with a party invite which had been dropped on the floor. My daughter had passed it to another child and said to return it to Mary. Apparently this other girl had then started laughing at the invite which in turn obviously upset Mary. My dd claims it was absolutely nothing to do with her and was really confused about the whole thing. She said this mother was accusing her of all sorts, but when I spoke to her about what was going on she claims she didn’t know why her daughter was so upset.
Aibu to think a) you don’t go up to a child in the playground and start quizzing them
in an accusatory manner b) you especially don’t do this if you haven’t even spoken to your own child about what’s happened first?