Maintainence man manoeuvred my 3 year old out of the way

[tooloololoo]

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

Mine too, followed by Madeline McCann.

3 year old should be in your sight and if you are paying you should have said chiald infront of you or next to you - My guess is maintenece man said probably go to your mum or something and said child decided they didnt want to so they thought it best to remove child from danger ( which however should have been marked as such )

Eight pages later, @tooloololoo has not returned to offer clarification or explanation; I wonder why?

Really he was well within his rights to shout you to control your child . He sounds like he was obviously doing a job and didnt need a very young child int he way . Get a grip! At 3 you should not be so distracted that you dont click to this instantly anyway .

they thought it best to remove child from danger ( which however should have been marked as such )

Well the 3yo can't read and the mother wasn't paying attention, so it wouldn't matter whether it was or wasn't.

Anyway, dangerous or not, a small child shouldn't be getting in the way of someone trying to do their job.

Whether or not it is dangerous isn’t really relevant, the man didnt need a reason not to want a child bothering him.

I can withstand an earful but I couldn't live with myself if I let a child get killed.

It's your responsibility to keep your child out of danger and out of the way of others in a public place.

And that’s fine. But lazy parents need to understand that not everyone will do their job for them, even in that situation.

They do but as an Early Years teacher of 30 years my reactions are honed to step in when there's a danger and I would. I am also used to getting an earful from parents so meh!

Mum, is that you? Exactly what my mum used to say when busybodies said the same thing to her. I was an inveterate explorer.

Well James's mum never in a million years would have thought it would happen in seconds, but it did

Your child was getting in the way of someone with work to do. What did you expect to happen?

Fair enough!

I don’t know that I would though. I’m not risking getting a mouthful from an arsehole parent!

The fact that people are bringing up an incident from so many years ago shows how rare it is.

I mean I probably wouldn’t return either. Regardless of whether she’s being unreasonable or not. It’s just a dogpile now and whatever she says will be ripped to pieces.

Is there any wonder? Entitled mother lets her kid bother someone doing their job multiple times, then kid kicks off and mother blames the poor sod who was being bothered in the first place.

This can’t be real 😂😂😂

I was ignoring my child today and she was repeatedly in the way of someone trying to some maintenance work. Fixed your post for you.

Quite, although the answer was in the post title: manoeuvred my 3 year old out of the way. Wouldn't have happened if the child wasn't IN the way in the first place.

Ooo I do love a unanimous thread. It restores my faith in humanity.

The maintenance man had to do this because you didnt. It wasnt a safe place for a small child to stand. Start parenting and keep your young child next to you so you are keeping them safe rather than some other adult around having to do it for you.

This is exactly it.

Why were you not parenting your child? Do you not remember James Bugler?

Went to a cafe/restaurant place for Mother’s Day. A couple with 2 children came in. The boy, who was around 4 yo proceeded to climb on the bench that ran the length of the place, and run up and down. Parents totally ignored him. An older woman pointed out to him that he might fall over, parents gave her a right earful. It was none of her business, if he fell off the bench it was the cafes fault! The girl was twirling around other people’s chairs and at times not in sight of the parents. This was in St Albans and the parents were clearly affluent, and so assume educated, but their lack of awareness of what their kids were getting up to was astounding.