Ever wanted to karate chop a child in the playground?

Talk to her. Something like - we are going to use it now we have been waiting a while

I would just tell the child that taking turns is the kind thing to do. I kind of yelled at some kids at the playground the other day. They kept climbing onto the bottom of the slide while my kids were going down. They were the only other two kids at the park no parents around. They were probably 7/9 years old. I told them "hey don't do that, it's unsafe and I won't have my kids being responsible for you getting hurt while you make unsafe decisions." Kids tend to think I'm a teacher because of the way I speak to them (I used to be).

I get the feeling, but I just have my child go somewhere else. It’s not worth it getting all worked up over it.

I think in some situations it's worth saying something if your kid isn't safe and also I like to make sure my daughter knows that we can stand up for ourselves if we need to

Just say something like ‘sorry but it’s my child’s turn now’. I wouldn’t get worked up about it and I also wouldn’t assume that the child is a spiteful brat, I think all children that age can be annoying like this at times.

I use passive aggressiveness in these situations. 'awww that looks like so much fun, Freddie here would love to have a go after you and we can all share together because it's kind to share and not kind to not let others have a go'. If that doesn't work you bet I'm snatching it straight off them 😂

@Lisa nahh she was spiteful 😆 she would wait until the last second when my daughter was about to get on and jump on infront of her. Then get off and wait for her to try again

If her parents are not there to correct her, don't be shy, tell her she had her turn and now it is yours and steal the spinny thing.

I took my 9 month old to a baby group last week which was meant to be for 9-18 months. They have decided to mix the groups so now kids up to 3 are attending. A little girl stood on my daughters foot twice and I wanted to push her over so bad 🙈 obviously I would never do it and it was an irrational rage. I think it was partly because the mum wasn’t even telling her daughter to be careful

Yes. This little boy almost knocked my baby down on the playground. My girl is tall for her age but she's only 2 and the boy was at least 5. He knew better. I wanted to push him so bad.

Yes at Gatorland in Orlando FL. Those kids were trash. If your big kids pushed my 2 yo in October 2023 I still hate you 😂

You’re allowed to parent other children. You can always say something.

We had an issue inside a soft play once these two girls (about 8) decided my daughter and her friend (4) were “to babyish to play here” and kept trying to stop them climbing and kept trying to trip my daughter up and we ignored them for a while and then one of the girls went to push my friends son off a slide and i shouted “DONT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT” and they both came over to me and said “we are bigger than them they shouldn’t play here” and I said “well I’m MUCH bigger than you.. so does that mean I can push you off the slide?” And she told me to shut up so I went to the parents cafe and was like “WHOS CHILD IS WEARING XYZ CAN I SPEAK WITH YOU?” And I told the parent that their child needs to be supervised and if they tried to touch/push/trip my child or my friends I’d be speaking to staff about removing them from the soft play (which is aimed at children 2-6 anyway!!) and she shouted at her daughters gave me a dirty look and they moved on. Honestly some kids need to be told 🫣

I've shouted at someone else's child before, he grabbed my daughter by the arms and squeezed when she was about 2 and he must have been 4/5. I told him not to touch her again and I kid you not he smirked at me and went to do it again so I full chest voice shouted at him to get away from her. Kid jumped out of his skin and the whole soft play area went quiet, not a single parent came over to see if it was their child though. Some parents treat play areas like fucking free daycare

Yep talk to her. I talk to peoples kids all the time at the park they are never watching them lol. Have to ask them not to hit too