Today at a party another child pushed mine in the face - what would you have done?

[Monkeybar]

I was at a 2 year old's birthday party today with my ds (who will be 2 at the end of July). He went to get into an inflatable ball pool, in which there was another child, whose mother was sat on the floor next to the ball pool(I haven't seen either of them before, so don't know her). Her child put his hand up and pushed mine in the face. I said 'there's plenty of room for two in there!!' and lifted my son in. He got straight out, but when he approached the side again to climb back in, the same thing happened!
I said the same and did the same, but I've since been wondering what you are supposed to do in these situations, because I know that there will be many more occasions when someone else's child does something to mine that I will think is unacceptable. I can't believe his mother didn't tell the other child not to push mine in the face,or give me an apologetic look or shrug at the very least.

My usual line (on my kids and other people's) is "Nobody wants to play with people who push."
I took my DD home from a 2nd birthday party after she smacked the same kid in the face 3 times. I understood why she'd done it, she'd got very possessive over a playhouse, but after a telling off and a threat to go home had been ignored (well, forgotten really) we had to go. I think some parents would be more worried that it was rude to leave but I'm sure people would rather not have a recidivist smacker running amok!

I would have said exactly the same as Colditz, I would have also been a bit that if his mother was sat there she didn't do/say anything herself!

Monkeybar, you are right that you will have many, many years of having to deal with these hideous places and some the the hideous children and lazy parents that frequent them. I take mine infrequently now as the wind me up so much.

Last year i took my DD2 to her friends 4th birthday party.
They had a bouncy castle in the garden and there were about 10 children there.
My DD2 who was 20 months at the time was with me and i let her have a go on the bouncy castle near the entrance .
Well, then comes along a pre-school boy of 3yrs and 10 months and he grabs my DD2 by her hair and pulls her deeper into the bouncy castle.
I practically GROWLED at that kid and he soon let go of her and he spent the rest of the party avoiding me and my girls.
At least he knew he had done wrong and was too embarased to tell his parents- whover they were.
AB