More park bitching

[monkeybabe]

I took Zoe to the park and there were a few other babies around her age there for once. She was doing her normal loop around the play structure: up the steps, down the slide, run around, repeat. Well, there was a 20 month old up by the top of the slides, whose dad was sticking pretty close to him. I was down near the bottom of the slides, because Zoe's predictable, she goes to the slide and slides down. She almost got to the slides when the 20 month old turned around and put his hands on her face. It looked cute at first and then he stuck both hands into her hair and shoved her down and wouldn't let go. His dad managed to reach up and get him to let go before I got to them, but I wasn't stoked. Zoe wasn't crying, but she looked super displeased. I asked her if she'd like to go down the slide and she hopped up and went down. The little boy disappeared for a little while. I didn't notice that he was back and Zoe was heading up the steps again. When I saw him, I moved closer to the stairs and sure enough, she got to the top step and as she was trying to go up it, he turned around and grabbed her hair again. She jerked backwards and nearly fell down the steps. The dad said sorry and said that the boy is going through terrible nearly twos and said his age. I get that little kids can suck, but man, he didn't assault any other kids, but Zoe. 

[Chrisx2+1]

At least the dad was there to grab him and apologized. Sorry your day at the park was kinda sucky though.

[monkeybabe]

Yeah, the dad was cool. There have been other kids at this park where you can't even tell who their parents is and they're being giant jerks. I guess I just want the park to be puppies and rainbows for Zoe, I guess.

[Chrisx2+1]

I get sad that the park in my neighborhood never has any other kids for A to play with. He doesn't go to daycare either so his only interaction is with adults.

[laurack]

Aww sorry poor Zoe got picked on but at least the dad wasn't a jerk!

[devonpow]

Im sorry - it sucks to have that happen to your kid, but it also sucks when your kid is the aggressor! Once when Henry was 2 we were at the playground with my friend, her daughter (Henry's age) and her newborn son. We were sitting on a bench, watching the kids play while my friend nursed the baby (maaaaybe 3 weeks old?). Henry out of nowhere comes over, picks up a stick, and WHACKS tiny, newborn, nursing baby on the head. With a big stick. Oh my god. And H is actually a really good, rule following kid! He was just 2 and who knows what the F he was thinking. Thank god my friend understood (having a 2 year old herself). The park can be like American Gladiators at times.

[carawestt]

Aw sorry the park trip was ruined. I'm glad the dad was apologetic but he was also probably pretty embarrassed that his kid was picking on Zoe.

[thedahliharpa]

Sept 1, 2013 12:10:42 GMT -5 devonpow said:

Im sorry - it sucks to have that happen to your kid, but it also sucks when your kid is the aggressor! Once when Henry was 2 we were at the playground with my friend, her daughter (Henry's age) and her newborn son. We were sitting on a bench, watching the kids play while my friend nursed the baby (maaaaybe 3 weeks old?). Henry out of nowhere comes over, picks up a stick, and WHACKS tiny, newborn, nursing baby on the head. With a big stick. Oh my god. And H is actually a really good, rule following kid! He was just 2 and who knows what the F he was thinking. Thank god my friend understood (having a 2 year old herself). The park can be like American Gladiators at times.

OMG! Thank goodness it was not her first child. :-)

[devonpow]

Sept 1, 2013 12:44:07 GMT -5 thedahliharpa said:

Sept 1, 2013 12:10:42 GMT -5 devonpow said:

Im sorry - it sucks to have that happen to your kid, but it also sucks when your kid is the aggressor! Once when Henry was 2 we were at the playground with my friend, her daughter (Henry's age) and her newborn son. We were sitting on a bench, watching the kids play while my friend nursed the baby (maaaaybe 3 weeks old?). Henry out of nowhere comes over, picks up a stick, and WHACKS tiny, newborn, nursing baby on the head. With a big stick. Oh my god. And H is actually a really good, rule following kid! He was just 2 and who knows what the F he was thinking. Thank god my friend understood (having a 2 year old herself). The park can be like American Gladiators at times.

OMG! Thank goodness it was not her first child. :-)

Right??? That's what we both said! If a kid had done that to H I woud have gone BALLISTIC. If it happened to E...eh, you roll with the punches, lol.

[Dorothy Zbornak]

When H was I guess two, two and a half, she was at the park with my husband ... she tripped and fell in the sand, no big deal. But before she could get up, this other kid came up and started wailing on her with a plastic bucket. My husband jumped up and yelled at the kid while running towards them, but he wouldn't stop. The little asshole's mother got to him just in time, because my husband was just about to pick him up and hurl him off of H. The mother said, "Vincent! Say you're sorry or we're going home!" The little punk refused, they didn't leave the park, and Vincent was later spotted with an ice cream cone. H had bruises on her back.

That fucking bitch of a mother can count her lucky stars that I wasn't at the park, because I would have gone BALLISTIC. I would have ugly screamed at her. It would not have been pretty.

[monkeybabe]

Sept 2, 2013 1:56:39 GMT -5 Dorothy Zbornak said:

When H was I guess two, two and a half, she was at the park with my husband ... she tripped and fell in the sand, no big deal. But before she could get up, this other kid came up and started wailing on her with a plastic bucket. My husband jumped up and yelled at the kid while running towards them, but he wouldn't stop. The little asshole's mother got to him just in time, because my husband was just about to pick him up and hurl him off of H. The mother said, "Vincent! Say you're sorry or we're going home!" The little punk refused, they didn't leave the park, and Vincent was later spotted with an ice cream cone. H had bruises on her back.

That fucking bitch of a mother can count her lucky stars that I wasn't at the park, because I would have gone BALLISTIC. I would have ugly screamed at her. It would not have been pretty.

Holy shit. I think I would have freaked out.