To post this on local FB Group?

[NickD87]

My husband thinks I should, my sister says NO WAY….

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I hate to be THAT parent and I know I should have said something at the scene but my daughter was upset…

Walking my daughter up the hill in the Oval a group of kids (maybe aged 7-8) came by. She sat down near the top, and I was a bit further ahead encouraging her to get up and finish because we were so close!

One child wearing a balaclava on a bike parked right next to her. I walked towards her and was actually going to tell the boy “thanks, she’s fine” as I thought he was checking she was ok. But as I got closer he had his wheel right up against her leg and staring at her. The other boys with him kept shouting “Yeah, run her over! [Name] is trying to run her over!!! RUN THE BABY OVER!”

I get boys can be boys! But what made this worse is that these kids were with their Mums. And not a single one stepped in, or said sorry. I’m assuming they hadn’t heard this, even though they were being pretty loud. Which is sort of the point in posting here.

I really wish I’d said something as she was pretty upset with the weird situation and I was having a bit of a WTF moment.

My daughter isn’t even two. She doesn’t need kids threatening to run her over.

To be clear, in no way actually think these kids would have intentionally hurt her and it was probably hi-jinx. But the joking around about it left me feeling really freaked out and scary for her.

If these were your kids, please have a word.

Personally I believe these posts are always pointless. Chances of the parents reading it are so low, that it may make you feel better for about 2 mins but other than that I don't see the point. Just my view.

You need to let it go. Posting on FB won't make you feel any better. No one will admit it was their child (even if they know it is from the description) and people always defend misbehaving kids on fb.

It won't make you feel better.

They sound like horrible little s**ts but sadly posting this is unlikely to do anything, the parents who need to do something about their kids behaviour are the ones who won't care enough to do it

I'd be reporting to the police. Agree with PPs that Facebook posts do very little and you'll get loads of those 'why didn't you say anything' comments.

What you could do though is ask if anyone in that area has a video doorbell or CCTV to help identify them.

Boys can be boy's..Nope just the thugs of the future right there in the making.
Tink parents never take responsibility for bad behaviour.

Go to the police about 7 year olds?

I don't think you'll achieve anything other than people asking why you left a two year old baby sitting on the ground, while you walked ahead.

You know what FB is like, it doesn't take much to kick people off.

Horrible behaviour from the kids though.

If you wanted to achieve something then you should have said something to the kids and parents at the time.

Doing absolutely nothing and then posting about it on FB later is pointless.

Yep. When my brother was that age we got a knock on the door from an officer as they spotted him drawing on a wall with a washable felt tip. OTT, nothing happened and we wiped it off but a lesson was learnt and our parents got a ‘contain your child’ type of warning. I’m pretty sure they said that if he’s caught again it’ll be marked as antisocial behaviour or something like that. But it was a very long time ago so I can’t be quoted on that.

I would argue that if your 7 year old (3 away from criminal responsibility) in a balaclava is pressing up against a 2 year old with his bike tyre shouting he’s going to run her over that’s grounds for a stern talking to and so are his parents to allow such behaviour. If he’s doing that now, who knows what he’ll be doing by the time he’s in secondary school.

I think you need to think about what you hope to achieve and how likely that outcome is.

Sadly if the parents didn't do anything when there, they aren't going to be bothered about a Facebook post and it will only bring out the trolls making mean comments and saying things like boys will be boys, better they were out on bikes than playing computer games etc.

No leave it. I did a similar thing once and a lot of people kicked right off. bullying me into submission.

Totally agree, absolutely pointless posting on FB about it, who’s to say these people are even on FB?

And yabu to say ‘boys will be boys’ - ridiculous sexist statement.