How would you have handled this?

[tiggger1]

This afternoon a bunch of kids from my dd kindergarten went to the playground after school. There were a ton of kids there and they were all running around being kids. A bunch of us moms were talking when, All of a sudden this other mother( she has 2 year old twin girls and a 5 year old DD) comes up to another mom and says "Your little boy made my daughter cry"(one of the twins) he went down the slide and he scared her. She doesn't like strangers and even though I told him he couldn't play with her, he went down the slide anyways"

The mom of the boy went to her son and asked what happened. He said I was waiting to go down the slide" Another mother there confirmed that nothing happened, he just was waiting at the top of the landing to go down the slide and the little girl started crying.. she saw the mom go up there and told him that she doesn't like strangers. The little boy waited until she went down the slide and went down and followed her up the stairs to go again. The mom told him again that she didnt like strangers but he continued to go up the stairs to the slide. this is when the mom picked up her dd and she come over to the boys mom. I guess she didn't want him around her dds at all?

The mom apologized and said he didnt mean to scare her, he just likes the slide. The mom of the twins made a sarcastic comment about "everyone treats my girls like a circus act" and the other mom said " no my kids love to play with everyone..The mom of the twins said snottily "WELL, I dont let my kids play with kids we dont know. So The mom told her son to leave the little girl alone and play with his friends. He looked at her and said " I dont want to play with babies anyway.. We all laughed... Well apparently the mom of the twins was not happy because we laughed and how the mother handled it and made another comment about people talking and not watching their kids and took the girls to the toddler section of the playground( where they should have been anyways). The rest of the moms all rolled our eyes and kinda laughed it off but the mom was upset and asked a few of us what she should have done differently....

I told her to ignore her. She seems very snotty..and her son did anything wrong, he didn't touch her or even play with her, he was just waiting patiently for the slide and if she didnt want her kids to play with kids she didnt know then dont take them to the playground when there are 50 kindergartens there!

plus last ast week, I told her how cute her girls were and she was like "I know" and turned the stroller around so I couldnt see them!

 

[Cindy's Mom]

I would have beat the heck out of twin mom.....

 

[tiggger1]

I would have beat the heck out of twin mom.....

 

[Traveliz]

Seriously if I am following this correctly that was one strange interaction - and if the mom of the little girl doesn't want her daughter to play with others (strangers, whatever) then she doesn't belong at the playground and I think I would have handled it by saying - "This is the playground and we are all here to play so I guess if you want it to yourself you are going to have to find a different time of day -- maybe earlier or after dark."

Liz

 

[TnTsParty]

The twin mom needs to grow up. What did she think the little boy was going to "do" something to her 2 year old?? Like you said she should have the twins on the little playground and not where bigger "strangers" are. That is pretty sad that the mom is teaching her twins to be so scared of other kids. I feel sorry for them actually - how are they going to handle going to school or life in general if they are "scared" of people they don't know. I know its important to teach kids about "stranger danger" and all that but this whacko is taking things a little too far.

 

[java]

Wacko! If your child has stranger issues stay home.
It's a playground. Get over yourself twin mom.

 

[lovesmurfs]

She needs to get a swingset for her own backyard if she doesn't want her daughters interacting with kids on a playground. And hope her daughters get along with each other, because, with a mom like that, they're not gonna make any friends. Sheesh.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

She is just another wacko mom, going to raise wacko kids. Sounds like she has a head start with that.

 

[lucyanna girl]

I feel bad for the little boys mother. Sounds like she handled it really well.

penny

 

[Disney Doll]

Wacko! If your child has stranger issues stay home.
It's a playground. Get over yourself twin mom.

I agree

 

[KerriSue]

I have a big mouth I would have told the lady to take her kids back the their bubble so the other 'strange' kids could play

 

[minniecarousel]

Tell the mom of the boy that we all think she handled it very well (& was probably more polite than most of us would have been!)

 

[Mermaid02]

I have a big mouth I would have told the lady to take her kids back the their bubble so the other 'strange' kids could play

I love this response!!

 

[Magic Mom]

plus last ast week, I told her how cute her girls were and she was like "I know" and turned the stroller around so I couldnt see them!

Next time offer that woman the number to the closest mental facility and ask her to admit herself. She is a loon!

 

[Aisling]

The woman sounds like a nut.

I would have told her to call the police and ask them to handle it!

 

[mytwotinks]

If I were the mom of the boy I would have been tempted to tell her to get out of my kids face!

She is mad that a child scared her kid so she ( a big scary strange adult) starts being mean to a little boy. What a weirdo!

 

[KerriSue]

I love this response!!

Thank you, thank you! I do my best work with nasty moms

 

[Amlee]

I have to say that mom handled that A LOT better than I would have. Heck, who am I kidding, the whole group handled it better than I would have.

When she stomped off, I would have loudly started humming the witch's song from The Wizard of Oz.

 

[agnes!]

The *child* is not the one with the issues, the *mother* is. I mean, i can understand being protective, but all the people on that playground were all (if not friends) at least acquaintances. There's a certain level of safety is having another mom you *know* say how cute your toddler is, as compared to a complete stranger stopping you in the grocery store and saying they think your kid is so cute they'd like to take her home (which happened to me *many* times when my DD was a baby & toddler).

The mother sounds like she's almost agoraphobic. Poor kids.

agnes!

 

[C.Ann]

She sounds like a nut case.. Better keep those twins at home..