bad parent vent

[karebear219]

Bkb and I went to the park this afternoon. She wanted to go on the slide. There were about four other kids playing on the slide taking turns etc. Bkb sits down to go down the slide. This little boy about seven comes up behind her and starts pushing and kicking her in the back to go down. I was at the bottom of the slide waiting for bkb and of course she starts to cry loudly and yells at him to stop repeatedly. I look around for his parents. No one around then I start calling for bkb to go and for him to stop kicking my kid. When they got down I scooped up my still crying daughter and got down to the other boys level told him what he did was wrong and made him say sorry. I'm still so mad. After that we went down to the sand and played but every time she looked towards the slide she started crying again. I never did find the mom but I still want to chew her out for not paying attention to her kid and letting him play rough on the slide. He was walking up the slide and pushing other kids down it too.

[jennlin]

I'm sorry, I'd be pissed too!! Next time yell loudly and make noises until his mom shows up. Ask him where his mom is, etc. that's not acceptable playground behavior and he needs to learn.

[karebear219]

jennlin that's a good idea about asking where his mom was. I was in such shock. Plus I figure any kid that behaves that way probably has a mom that doesn't care. He was old enough to know better.

[dana86]

Sad, poor bkb I can't stand mean kids. I've only come across one so far that was mean to M but she didn't understand really. However I did and I tried being nice since it was a kids party but I wanted to smack the little girl.

[toratoratori]

Someone on my BMB had something similar happen recently but the kid's parent WASN'T EVEN AT THE PARK. Like they lived in the neighborhood and just let the kid go "play" (read: harass other kids) unsupervised.

Some people should really not reproduce.

[shevacc]

I glare at/yell at other people's kids as necessary when they're unsupervised at the park. I would be so pissed! I don't think we would've left the slide, but I probably would've climbed up there with her. And if he tried to shove again, physically blocked him from getting to the slide.

[picksthemusic]

This is why J gets super nervous when we're at a park/playground and M is around other kids. I'm a little more relaxed, but if another kid gets physical with my kid, you better believe I'll be finding their parent and telling that child that what they are doing is wrong and they are not allowed to touch my child. That is so awful! I'm sorry BKB had to go through that.

[georgeharrison]

Tman is 8. If we had a playground close by and I was comfortable with our neighborhood, I would totally let him go alone. So I wouldn't really be surprised if his mom wasn't there.

That being said. I can't imagine tman acting like that kid, though. He is always really sweet with little ones.

[7costanza]

Poor bkb, I think you handled it really well though.