This is crazy and I can’t believe it actually happened!
I was at the children’s museum today with my almost 2 year old and my 2 month old. Just getting out of the house is a huge endeavor these days with 2 under 2 but my daughter loves the museum sooooo much so we try to go often. My daughter was feeding a pretend horse a pretend carrot and having the best time. An older child, nearly twice her size ran up and pushed my daughter down and took away her carrot.
Now normally I’m a go with the flow kind of parent. I don’t get upset with kids being kids but this child was at least 6 years old and should know better. This was not an accidental bump either, it was a two handed push and take. I told her very sternly, do NOT push and give my daughter back the carrot. She ran off. A second later this lady approached me and told me to not speak to her daughter that way as she doesn’t understand. I told the mom she needs to watch her closer then if she doesn’t know not to push small children. The mom’s response floored me!
“I’ve been watching you and your fat ass is knocking down kids left and right”
What the hell? Who says that to another adult, let alone anybody? I know I don’t have a fat ass (it’s the only part of me that didn’t grow during pregnancy lol), but to say that in front of a bunch of children?!? She then told me not to mess with her or her kid again. I ignored her at this point which seemed to infuriate her more and she kept talking smack and started telling other parents that I was rude to her kid and mentioned my “fat ass” another few times. I gathered my daughter up and we left, my daughter was in tears because she wanted to stay longer.
What would you have done in this situation? I honestly could’ve never planned for something like this, it just seems so absurd!
I was at the children’s museum today with my almost 2 year old and my 2 month old. Just getting out of the house is a huge endeavor these days with 2 under 2 but my daughter loves the museum sooooo much so we try to go often. My daughter was feeding a pretend horse a pretend carrot and having the best time. An older child, nearly twice her size ran up and pushed my daughter down and took away her carrot.
Now normally I’m a go with the flow kind of parent. I don’t get upset with kids being kids but this child was at least 6 years old and should know better. This was not an accidental bump either, it was a two handed push and take. I told her very sternly, do NOT push and give my daughter back the carrot. She ran off. A second later this lady approached me and told me to not speak to her daughter that way as she doesn’t understand. I told the mom she needs to watch her closer then if she doesn’t know not to push small children. The mom’s response floored me!
“I’ve been watching you and your fat ass is knocking down kids left and right”
What the hell? Who says that to another adult, let alone anybody? I know I don’t have a fat ass (it’s the only part of me that didn’t grow during pregnancy lol), but to say that in front of a bunch of children?!? She then told me not to mess with her or her kid again. I ignored her at this point which seemed to infuriate her more and she kept talking smack and started telling other parents that I was rude to her kid and mentioned my “fat ass” another few times. I gathered my daughter up and we left, my daughter was in tears because she wanted to stay longer.
What would you have done in this situation? I honestly could’ve never planned for something like this, it just seems so absurd!
