A friend of mine's child who is older that ds perpetually torments ds. Whatever he is playing with she takes it off him, pushes him off trikes etc..., if he goes and does something else she will remove that, the purpose of her behaviour i think is to cause distress and obtain attention. He cannot really do much about it as is smaller and she has about six months on him.
My friend does nothing and just lets her get on with it, meantime ds constantly bursting into tears in response to each onslaught, last time we met up there were about 20 incidents found it so wearing . I usually intervene and comfort ds but get increasingly ratty because of the mothers laissez faire attitude. The final straw for me was when ds was trotting happily around with his party bag looped over his arm and the other child just tore the plastic bag off his arm. Mother was watching and I think I sure I saw her laughing, but cannot be sure. In the end we left and I resisited the urge to scream at the mother to control her child.
What should I do, avoid this family , situation is sad as consider this woman a good friend. It is always laid at ds's door as being neurotic and her child being a normal child but don't think he is, nursery say what a well balanced outgoing cheerful child he is and he always has a real riot of fun with other children. whose mothers' like me will not tolerate behaviour that goest too far. I like this child but because she is given no boundaries she is out of control, imo.
just feel demoralised by it all and not sure whether I should be letting ds go through this anymore. Any ideas, I think I need to be told to keep a wide birth