Giving out to other peoples children!

BluesBerry · 22-07-2010 10:56PM #1

Dont know where the best place to put this so putting it here

Bascially what happened was brought children to Leixlip playground the other day and anyone that knows this playground knows you can sit in your car while the kids play and have full view of the playground

Anyway the kids were playing for about 30 mins when the eldest child came over to the car with the youngest who was crying and all distressed and inconsolable he eldest explained that the youngest was pushing a girl on the swing and she fell off and the mother had come over to her screaming at her saying who "who do you think you are you little bitch" you get away from these swings who do you think you are pushing my child like this"etc she went on and on

When they came over to me and said what had gone down I approached this women who was clearly unstable and said she had no right to upset a 5 year old child like she did How dare she I kept a calm tone throughout (even though I wanted to punch her in the face) my parting words were bloody foreigner and proceeded to leave the playground She thought about what I had said and chased me to the gate screaming "What!!!! you call me bloody forginer" over and over like a lunatic making all the other kids in the playground scared I dont know how I kept my cool I left

The child now does not want to return to this playground

So is it acceptable to give out to someones elses child , would you?

(personally if I had a problem with a child I would approach the parent not scream at the kid)

22-07-2010 10:58PM

Giving out to them if they're being brats and parent is nowhere in sight, yeah maybe.
Roaring abuse at them, not on your life.

Zombienosh · 22-07-2010 10:59PM

bloody foreigners coming over here stealing our jobs scaring our kids...

rabble rabble

Coriolanus · 22-07-2010 11:00PM

What the fúck does her being a foreigner have to do with anything? You're a closet racist madam, and in my humble opinion, no better than that other well know hater of foreigners, Hitler.

Oh, and as an aside, the correct protocol for dealing with another persons children is to pinch them when their parent isn't looking.

Millicent · 22-07-2010 11:01PM

So you called her a "bloody foreigner" and you're surprised she came shouting after you? Seriously?

Gummy Panda · 22-07-2010 11:01PM

who calls a 5 year old child a bítch?

Op, the woman must have been a fúckwit

caseyann · 22-07-2010 11:02PM

Within reason you can,for some circumstances,but not in a matter such as that.It was an accident she is five.What a bully :mad:

twinQuins · 22-07-2010 11:03PM

BluesBerry wrote: »

my parting words were bloody foreigner

And with that you lose all credibility.

gurramok · 22-07-2010 11:03PM

BluesBerry wrote: »

Bascially what happened was brought children to Leixlip playground the other day and anyone that knows this playground knows you can sit in your car while the kids play and have full view of the playground

With that description, don't name the playground whatever you do, for the sake of the kids!!

themadchef · 22-07-2010 11:04PM

I'm not being smart, but if i brought my kids to the play ground i wouldint sit in the car no matter how close it was to watch them.

The woman was out of order but had you been there (physically, as opposed to sitting in the car) would things have been different?

As i said, not having a go at you but maybe she felt free to verbally abuse a child who had no obvious guardian in sight.

Dudess · 22-07-2010 11:05PM

Maybe if I saw a child doing something potentially dangerous to themselves and/or other kids and I couldn't see any sign of their parent(s) I might advise them to be careful etc in a gentle but warning tone, but shouting at them? Absolutely no way. And being verbally abusive? That woman sounds crazed!

The "bloody foreigner" thing was completely unnecessary though, even if you were understandably fuming...

mojesius · 22-07-2010 11:08PM

TBH, I wouldn't have approached the woman at all. It's one child's words against anothers, there is a chance she was pushed off the swing. Best to leave them to sort out their playground rifts themselves

and not sit in the car.

Snowie · 22-07-2010 11:09PM

calling your daughter a little bitch is really wrong....

Op if your daughter was running around on a train making loads of noise, Out of curiosity, would you have an issue if some one asked her to be a little more quieter.....

Spore · 22-07-2010 11:09PM

Ah you both fucked up, zero sum game. Don't ever lose your moral right by resorting to prejudice, destroys your argument.

southsiderosie · 22-07-2010 11:14PM

Hm.

From her point of view, an unsupervised kid pushed her child down. I would be upset too since, as the many threads in AH can attest to, unsupervised children are a menace to society can cause problems when you are just trying to mind your own business.

Did you actually ask her what happened and if she called your kid a bitch? Or did you just lay into her?

And what does her being a foreigner have to do with anything?

BluesBerry · 22-07-2010 11:16PM

I was just stating what happened yes she was foreign I was incredibly annoyed the child was distressed call me a racist all you want but I could have called her way worse I mentioned that just to show you how erratic this woman was she was only short of assaulting the child

BluesBerry · 22-07-2010 11:17PM

southsiderosie wrote: »

Hm.

From her point of view, an unsupervised kid pushed her child down. I would be upset too since, as the many threads in AH can attest to, unsupervised children are a menace to society can cause problems when you are just trying to mind your own business.

Did you actually ask her what happened and if she called your kid a bitch? Or did you just lay into her?

And what does her being a foreigner have to do with anything?

The 5 year old is a very quiet shy child never causes trouble going to the playground for ages now never had a problem until that day

and by the way when did calling someone a bloody forginer become a "racist term" dont care what you think of me I didnt verbally abuse a child and potentially damage that childs self confidence and at the end of the day she was in the wrong and reacted like that to play the racist card because she was accosted in public to make me look the bad person

Heckler · 22-07-2010 11:20PM

BluesBerry wrote: »

The 5 year old is a very quiet shy child never causes trouble going to the playground for ages now never had a problem until that day

Why don't you get your ass out of the car and actually interact with your child in the playground ? The hell were you doing there ? Just sitting watching ? As stated earlier you lost all credibility with the "bloody foreigner" bit. Christ, i despair sometimes. Why don't you just watch some kids on Tv that way you wouldn't even have to leave the house.......................

stupidusername · 22-07-2010 11:21PM

If what your child said is true, then she was out of line going mental. But on the other hand you should take more responsibility for your children, and even if the other woman was unstable answering back in a cowardly way a racist comment is childish if nothing else. And I'm curious if you couldn't see what happened your children then how was it ok for you to sit in your car?

If you're expecting sympathy maybe you should've left out the racism. Or you should've posted in the parenting forum.

squod · 22-07-2010 11:22PM

bloody foreigner

How dare you blah, blah, blah.

starbelgrade · 22-07-2010 11:23PM

BluesBerry wrote: »

I was just stating what happened yes she was foreign I was incredibly annoyed the child was distressed call me a racist all you want but I could have called her way worse I mentioned that just to show you how erratic this woman was she was only short of assaulting the child

Ok then - you are a racist.

KittyeeTrix · 22-07-2010 11:24PM

If you ever meet her again and she upsets your child in that manner don't call her a bloody foreigner for fear of upsetting people, just loaf her clear into the head;)

I'm sure that would be less frowned upon

Edit; just a joke obviously for those of you who are overly sensitive

squod · 22-07-2010 11:24PM

stupidusername wrote: »

racist

the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race , especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races

Term doesn't fit here, find another bandwagon........

southsiderosie · 22-07-2010 11:25PM

BluesBerry wrote: »

The 5 year old is a very quiet shy child never causes trouble going to the playground for ages now never had a problem until that day

But how do you know what happened if you were in the car?

Maybe he pushed her too hard and it was an accident. But you weren't there, and all this other parent saw was that their kid got pushed down.

JerryHandbag · 22-07-2010 11:25PM

BluesBerry wrote: »

Bascially what happened was brought children to Leixlip playground the other day and anyone that knows this playground knows you can sit in your car while the kids play and have full view of the playground

A sort of Drive-In Playground? Cool :cool:

Susie_Q · 22-07-2010 11:25PM

I didn't know it had gotten to the stage where parents are so lazy that they will sit in the car while their children play in the playground. Ridiculous!

stupidusername · 22-07-2010 11:26PM

squod wrote: »

Term doesn't fit here, find another bandwagon........

Ah, why just point out my post?

Racist is clearly the wrong term. Care to tell me the correct term then?

squod · 22-07-2010 11:26PM

Susie_Q wrote: »

I didn't know it had gotten to the stage where parents are so lazy that they will sit in the car while their children play in the playground. Ridiculous!

+1

Fintomiginto · 22-07-2010 11:26PM

Blaydin Fordeners

southsiderosie · 22-07-2010 11:27PM

BluesBerry wrote: »

The 5 year old is a very quiet shy child never causes trouble going to the playground for ages now never had a problem until that day

and by the way when did calling someone a bloody forginer become a "racist term" dont care what you think of me I didnt verbally abuse a child and potentially damage that childs self confidence and at the end of the day she was in the wrong and reacted like that to play the racist card because she was accosted in public to make me look the bad person

I didn't call you a racist. I just asked you what her being a foreigner had to do with anything. If she was just mental, then she's just mental, but even that is questionable at this point, since all we know is the kid's version of the story as you apparently didn't ask, and admitted that you weren't actually there.

stupidusername · 22-07-2010 11:28PM

JerryHandbag wrote: »

A sort of Drive-In Playground? Cool :cool:

Or drive-thru playground?

Drive in, throw your child onto a swing, let them hop off (or get pushed :rolleyes: ) and you drive around and let them fall right back into the car. Brilliant stuff. All the fresh air and social interaction they need in 10 seconds.

Giving out to other peoples children!

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