Maintainence man manoeuvred my 3 year old out of the way

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Today I was in a bakery with 3year old dd, she went to look at the cakes whilst I ordered. However the maintainence man kept manoeuvring her out of the way back to me whilst I was ordering because there was a vent by her legs. It resulted in dd having a massive meltdown and throwing herself on the floor

On reflection am I being unreasonable to think the maintainence man could have walked me instead of taking ds shoulders and walking her back to me?

At first I was distracted at the till and didn’t realise it was a maintainence person

YWBVU to let your child keep getting in the way of the maintenance man.

What did he do wrong?

It sounds as if he gently steered her back to you, out of the way of the vent.

You were distracted, she had moved away from you 🤷🏻‍♀️

He was doing you a favour.

Try keeping an eye on your bloody (little nuisance, by the sounds of it) child instead of thoughtlessly letting her wander where she pleases in a place full of strangers!

Unnecessarily harsh and just plain rude. 🙄

More “How dare anyone mil inconvenience MY perfect precious child!!” crap.

Is this just rage bait?

Your kid was in his way. You should have been looking after her.

Either you are drunk or this is just another rage bait post written by an illiterate bot. So fucking tedious.

For goodness sake, nothing about the 3yos behaviour sounds anything other than standard, they are supposed to be curious. The fail is the parenting. Not a huge fail until you come to the ops reaction - ‘my child wandered away to get in the way of maintenance work and would you believe the man MOVED her away!!’ Seriously…

Are you one of these parents who would have expected the maintenance man to "reason with your 3 year old, use positive and encouraging language, give her options and wait till she arrives to the right decision by herself"?

Yeah Yabu,

You didn’t keep your child under control, so someone else had to do it for you.

The child is three
She doesn't know any better

Her mum should've been parenting
Not letting a three year-old wander around the bakery and getting in the way of people trying to do their jobs

But that's not the child's fault
It is the OP fault

You should have had your 3 year old in reach at all times, but the first time you realized she was in the way was the time to get her to stand right beside you or pick her up.

I would have thanked him

Is it my imagination, or are posts on AIBU getting more and more weird?

Unreasonable for moving her back to her away while he was trying to fix something. But you continued to neglect her.

Funny it’s another post and go..

It sounds like he was manoeuvring her out of danger, be thankful not arsey about it.

Just what I was thinking.

You were "distracted at the till" and didn't notice a random man apparently REPEATEDLY touching/moving your child??

You do realise how much worse this could have been than a guy trying to do his job, repeatedly moving your kid away to SAFETY? Cos you were too busy looking at fucking cakes?

My God, this is either total bullshit or some people really do not supervise their children any more

This was my initial thought too 😬

Once should have been enough. YWTA.

Yabu

Moving your child is safer than bringing you over because presumably he would be leaving your child with potential hazards like his tools? Why are you allowing a 3 year old to wander in a shop? They are impulsive and unpredictable and as your story demonstrates, unwittingly get in others’ ways. It could be dangerous for her being in the way of the maintenance man and could be easily accidentally hurt.

Yabu, you should have been making sure your child wasn't in his way