To be suprised by this mums reaction?

[NormaSknockers]

I was on the train yesterday with the DC & there was a mum with her 2 boys sitting opposite, the boys were aged about 6 & 9 at a guess.

The youngest lad was playing on what I think was a PSP & started to get frustrated, he was moaning that he couldn't get past this certain bit then in a temper shouted & threw the PSP in the floor (really hard too) folding his arms & sulking. I was but his mum scooped up the PSP, wrapped her arms around her DS & said 'don't worry babe Mummy will help you get past that bit' to which he tried to shove her off still moaning so she fished around in her bag & handed him a chocolate bar

AIBU to be miffed by her reaction? If DD had done that I would have taken the PSP (or whatever) away until she said sorry & learnt to treat her things with respect.

FWIW I never once said he was a spoilt brat & I didn't think that either it was more about the reaction to it but I do now realise that there may well have been many reasons for it so I'm sorry if I've upset or offended anyone. Not my intention!

You didn't say anything about him being a spoilt brat, Norma. I was referring more to some of the other comments posted on this thread.

No offence taken.

well done for taking it on board, Norma

it's completely possible she was being unhelpful to him, but as another mother to a hfa child, you never know what's going on

always safest not to judge!

Well if my DS pulled that, I wouldn't have said anything at all, neither would I have picked up the game. He wouldn't be getting a new one though. Throw your shit around and it gets lost/broken, the lesson is to not throw your shit around.

However, not my kid not my problem (as long as kid is not being hurt obviously).

yabu
a snapshot of someones life, you have no idea what had happened before or after.

Poison, again as previously said my issue was not the fact she gave him chocolate - jeez who doesn't like having chocolate. Anyway, I have already stated that I realise there may have been other issues that I was not aware of & have made my apologies.

The child was frustrated by something too difficult not tantrumming because he wanted a toy he couldn't have. Surely the kind and common sense thing is to help him with whatever he is having difficulty with.

I have already apologised (several times) - I don't really see what else I can do?

Wow what a brat, and the child sounds as bad too

It was me who called him a spoil brat not Norma.

Lol at those who think this mother was reasonable. My first reaction was 'silly cow' but that's just the kind of person I am

nice

Think OP is sanctimonious. I hope I do still have the energy if DD does this sort of thing she when is older, but I suspect I may be too tired to put up much of a fight on a busy train. Perhaps kid had been a brat all day and she knew the warning signs of a major tantrum.

Messa - had you bothered to read the entire thread & not just jump to the last page you would have seen that I have apologised more then once for my quick to judge attitude & realise there may have been other issues I had not thought about.

I would have given him a British Rail pork pie

Norma people don't read the whole thread and in AIBU you can't control a thread once it is out there. Just let it slide off...

Yeah, you apologized, there's nothing else you can do. Enjoy your choccy treat from perry. For what it's worth, some people jump on anything here in the lovely world of MN. I could be like, "AIBU to think that the neighbor boy machine gunning his cat to death is a bad idea," and some MNers would say, "How dare you judge! You have no idea!" and so forth. We all of us judge sometimes, it's impossible not to. Some people brought to your attention some circumstances you might not have been aware of, you acknowledged that you may have been wrong. Well done ya!

FWIW, I would deal with almost any of the SN kids I work with the same way as stated before "Ok, I can see you're frustrated, let's find a better way to deal with it." That's just me though!