my 6 year old will happily have a fight with a 2 year old

[fattybum]

We are at the soft play and I've just had to prevent my ds fighting with toddler. Admittedly, the toddler pushed first and was blowing raspberrys, but at 6 shouldnt he know better by now? He doesn't seem to get that he's much older and needs to be more mature.

How do I deal with this?

I think 6 is definitely old enough to know better, although if he has no younger siblings then perhaps it's a lesson not drummed in quite as much as if he had. A 6 year old fighting a toddler whether he started it or not, will be called a bully and therefore it is extremely important in my opinion, that he understands it is wrong and not get labelled in such a way.

I can't tell you how to discipline your children, but I would deal with him in a manner that would make him realise what he did was wrong, even being slightly too firm about it would help get the message across i.e. straight home from soft play.

For me a 6 year old will not understand bein taught about maturity, but he may understand being taught about bullying.

Yeah, he should understand about that by now. I would also do a "we're going straight home" for that one.