to wonder why a parent would get snotty with my eldest son because he didn't want their little girl to get on the zip wire without one of her parents there?

[OrmRenewed]

Girl was about 3 or 4. DS got off the zip wire and brought the seat thing back so that the girl could get on it but there was no parents in sight and he didn't think she should get on without someone watching here.

The dad turned up and when the girl complained the the 'big boy' wouldn't let her get on, he told DS#1 to mind his own business

AIBU to think that he was right to be cautious. She was so small she could hardly reach the seat.

Orm your son sounds lovely, well brought up how all children should be, that dad sounds rude and vile, signifies all that is wrong with this country. No way would i allow my nearly 3 year old on a zip slide that is meant to be for older children and your son is right. Treat him to something, he sounds like an absoulte star

Good on your DS Page, the mentality of some eh

well done Orm's ds!

Orm they are indeed oh yes.

YANBU

Your son is obviously a thoughtful caring person

Btw I don't blame him for muttering, I would've too, only mine would have been less erm....complimentary

I wouldn't mind my 3 yo going on a zip wire if he wanted to but he is a dare devil and accept that most 3 yos shouldn't.

I definately don't think he should have helped her on it. I don't think the Dad should have been rude to OP's DS.

Out of interest, when the dad came back, did she get on it on her own and have a turn? Or did Dad assist? I find most playgroup equipment that is not suitable for small ones is designed so they can't use it, e.g. zip wire seat too high up, rungs spaced widely.

No moomma, dad helped her. That was what she wanted - for DS to heave her up on the seat. Which he wouldn't although he'd have done it with his siblings when they were that age.

YADNBU orm, your son sounds like a star

lol @ AF suggesting it being Mr PP...

Not only thoughtful but a wise and sensible boy OP.
What if he'd helped her on, let her go and she'd fallen off.
Just in time for an enraged testosterone-fuelled and negligent father to turn up and yell at your DS for endangering his little princess.

What a sweetheart. If she couldn't get on without help he was right not to help her. The Dad was covering his back for not watching her on a thing she shouldn't have been on without him -- and then taking it out on a kid.

bollocks am reporting my own stupidity

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I know, I know. How long does it take to delete these things on a Sunday night? Second twat event of the evening for me. Shouldn't be allowed out. In. Whatever.

< even more intrigued. It's Monday >

Does it help to know that it's Monday night?

Oh for pete's sake

I'm going to bed. First I post insensitively on a sensitive thread, then I post something possibly sensitive on the wrong thread, then I get the day wrong. Sheesh. Orm your boy sounds lovely.

yanbu and your ds is a star

thank you goblin child

however big that shot is, it's not big enough

probono - don't worry about it. I once posted "Tis Pity She's a Whore" on the wrong thread. Which happened to be a thread about a 5 year old girl.

probono...none of us have the faintest idea what you are on about

don't draw attention, and you might get away with it

i think you get five points for that jamie

right

goodnight

Ooh probono I don't know what you are talkin about at all but do I sniff an opprtunity to be offended