DD came crying to me as I was talking to other parents in the park after school saying that 2 girls in her class had just hurt her in the park.. I had heard one girl's name mentioned far to many times and quite frankly I had enough.
I went to the girls and told all three of them off asking them to play nicely and that I did not want to hear about any arguments between them. One girl took this opportunity to tell my DD off for pointing and I stopped her in her tracks and said that I did not want to hear any tails.
My last word on the matter was to tell my DD that it was enough (i.e to stop her tears and to stop the conflict)
As I turned to return to my conversation with other parents a group of parents were looking at me in disgust.
I am from the old school that if a child/children are misbehaving I will pull them up regardless to who is around. It just so happened that these girls parents were not around at the time
When I asked my dd if I dealt with the girls too roughly she said yes. I do not know if this is because she does not like being told off in any shape or form or if this is because she was just embarrassed or what.
I thought I would throw it out there!
Was I wrong? What would you have done? How would you have reacted if you had witnessed this?