I am afraid I have encountered that situation we all hope we never have to as a parent......bullying. Ages are 1st grade range so a bit tricky. I am needing advice on constructive ways to approach another parent. I am not wanting to address the specifics in behavior. I am not even looking for this to be an open exchange or to come to some type of "understanding"/"compromise"/"solution". I just want to make it known that I do not want the other parents child knocking on my door asking for my child to play.
This other child isn't well supervised at all. It seems they are kicked outside and left to their own devices until who knows when so I don't even know what unit they live in nor do I have a phone number. I have often wondered the dynamic this child is in to cause the behavior displayed as the only parent I have seen on a couple occasions is I would say in their late 40's at the very least. This child cusses/ flips children off, seems to have no knowledge of boundaries, no manners, etc. When behavior is witness that normally would need addressing, child just runs off when confronted. Obviously there is lack of involvement/guidance unfortunately. I understand it's not the child's fault. However, I am responsible for doing right by my child and interactions with this other child leave my child feeling in an overall negative state which is unacceptable. When in the presence of other children this child deliberately does things they know will hurt my child. Excluding seems to be a favored tactic. When it is just the two of them behavior seems relatively "okay" but that should never be settled for and overall this is not my ideal model of a "friendship" we want to maintain.