At a party the other day, most children are roughly aged 4-6. This child is a bit older, maybe eight.
The first time I noticed him was when he came up to me to say my ds was not letting him touch the buttons on a car (one of those you sit in and pay money to have a go.) Told ds to come off it and let the other boy have a turn. OK then.
Then during the food the child starts complaining my ds is singing loudly. OK, sensitive soul I thought so told ds to keep it down a bit.
Then the child came up to me to complain my ds told him to fuck off. There is absolutely no way ds knows that word so I challenged him that time and said ‘now I don’t think that happened, did it?’ Child looks a bit shamefaced and shakes his head. Then comes up to me again complaining that ds is running around in soft play (!) and this time I said quite sharply ‘please stop coming up to me telling tales, it isn’t very nice and I don’t want to hear it.’
I probably was a bit UR as it’s fair enough if it’s something he actually did wrong but running in soft play? FFS!