So did I completely overreact....is everyone laughing at me?! :-(

[hazbaz]

Just took DS1 & 2 (5&3) to the playground after school with some other mums. My suggestion, trying to make friends - I'm naturally v shy & awkward & trying to make an effort.

Ended up leaving early because DS1 winds up DS2 all the time, encouraging his friends (four 5 year olds) to chase, roar & generally be mean to his little brother. It's always DS2 the baddie, even when he wants to be on his big brother's team. Today he & his friends were stealing DS2's little boy treasures he found under the trees & made a dinosaur nest with, making him cry. When I tell them to find their own acorns & not take other people's, they find some & start throwing them at DS2.

So I took DS2 by the hand, told him to say goodbye to his friends, brief goodbye to parents with an apology & march home with DS1 in floods of tears.

Are the parents all just laughing at me now? Would you think me a crazy mum :-(

Sounds OK to me.

I got some eye-rolling off people t'other day in the cafe.

DD is 3.8, but in many ways seems older. She was chatting away to the waiter who took our order, but once food had arrived she was bored. DD decided that it would be 'fun' to start peering over the booth at the people behind her.
Said hellos etc., but they wanted to eat their meal.

Unfortunately the cafe is a fairly new one and has fancy leather-upholstered booths. I say unfortunately because she decided then to start trying to climb over the back of our seating booth into theirs. Jammy fingers and white leather = me frantically baby-wiping everything.

Then she started laying on the seat, rubbing her arms up the back; then getting under the table and mucking about.

She got three warnings.

After this she was still clambering about so we paid and left abruptly. She wailed all the way down the road!

Well done OP - sounds like you handled it really well. Reading your post made me feel really sad for your DS2 bless him.