My son likes Peppa Pig. He got into it when he was about 2, he will be 3 in September. He doesn't really watch it anymore to be honest - sometimes he'll see an episode if we put "Milkshake" on in the morning on Channel 5, but that's about it.
But, he likes to snort like Peppa Pig. Fine, not a big deal, and I have been enduring it for nearly a year now. But lately, I am thinking he's of an age where he can at least stop snorting when I ask him to. I dont mind if he does it occasionally in context or during role play or something, but I am now at the point where he is old enough, I feel, to not go up to old ladies in the street and make snorting noises at them. He also snorted loudly during the middle of my daughter's baptism a couple of weeks ago. Its not just a quiet little snort...it raises the roof. Anyway.
So we were at this playgroup thing this morning and he started with the snorting. He did it a couple of times and then I said, okay, thats enough now please. But he kept doing it, ran away, went up to a little girl and did it right in her face, and she started crying (it might sound silly but its actually quite an uncouth and potentially intimidating noise)
I gently pulled him aside and said, if you do that again, we'll go and stand outside, as people dont like it, etc. He did it again, so we went outside for a few minutes and I used the time to explain to him that it wasn't really a very nice noise, that it made the little girl sad, and that he shouldn't really do it if I say not to. He said he wouldn't do it again and we went back in.
Long story short, he kept doing it, I took him outside a couple more times, but was starting to find it rather stressful so on I think our 3rd time outside, I said, right, we are going back in now, but if you do it again, we are going home. He said "I dont want to go home" so I said, okay, dont make the snorting noise then and all will be well. He said "I wont".
We went back in, he made a (fairly quiet this time) sneaky snort noise just to see if I'd notice, I said, remember - we will go home if you snort. So he looked at me in the eye, and let out the (loudest ever to date) snort and then ran off. So I calmly went and retrieved him and put him in the car.
I got the impression that one of the other mothers there thought that I was being unreasonable. Bearing in mind he had made a little girl cry, nobody was enjoying the noise or joining in, it was disrupting the other activities and he deliberately did something I had specifically asked him not to do having received a warning of what the consequence would be, was IBU?