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What do you do when this happens?

missyjgmissyjg member
in Upstate NY Babies

To keep a long winded story short: WDYD when another child hits (or pushes/throws toys at/kicks) your child. You don't know this child, nor his/her parents. This has happened a few times and the parents see it but don't ever intervene. If this happens, do you just remove your child from the situation or do you say something to the kid/parent. In my situation, parent supervision is lacking at best.

This has happened a few times. It makes me so angry when parents don't say something when their kids hit other kids.

TTC since 6/2003. m/c 9/14/03 8 weeks, 5 chemical pregnancies, mmc 6/04 12 weeks, Michael born sleeping 5/25/05 at 22weeks always our angel, fought ovarian cancer and won, m/c 4/06 5.2 weeks and 7/07 6.6 weeks,Our Miracle baby girl born 4/8/10,mc 12/18/11 at 5.3 weeks, BFP 10/26/12 dating u/s on 11/8/12 showing a strong heartbeat!EDD July 4,2013. RCS on 6/27. Baby boy in NICU for 8 long and scary days before he was able to come home. We are now a happy family of 4

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Re: What do you do when this happens?

  • June4bride2beJune4bride2be

    This hasn't happened but a few times, usually at a public play place. It may not be the right thing, but I say something to the child. Usually it is an older child who should know better. If the parent can't be bothered to correct their kid, someone else needs to....and I take it upon myself to do it.

    I say something AND remove R from that area. I will often shoot the parent an evil look as well.  

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  • jnk062602jnk062602
    I get down in between the kid and ask Ellie if she is ok and then say that it is not nice that he kicked her.  I am looking at Ellie when I say it, but the kid can obviously hear me (and hopefully the parent gets a what's up)  That way Ellie knows it wasn't acceptable and the other kid hopefully realizes what he did was not nice.  If it seems like the situation will repeat I will say - Lets come play over here instead with these kids bc he is not playing nice.
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  • NikColeNikCole

    I would definitely say something to the kid. Just a simple "hey, that isn't nice, please don't hit" I wouldn't say something to the parent unless it was really rough or continued. I don't know why so many parents don't pay attention to their kids!

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  • JenJarJenJar
    It definitely depends on the situation, how serious it is, if I know the parents, etc.  I like jnk's response a lot.  The most extreme situation we were in was actually when we lived in Roc, and we were at Melon Bean.  The same little girl kept pushing and hitting G, and the mom wasn't really doing enough about it.  I stepped in to make sure he was ok and did make a comment to the girl so that the mom could hear.  Eventually, when she did it again, we left.  The mom emailed me to apologize and I laid into her so she knew that I was not happy at all with how she handled the situation and supervising her child should be her top priority, not socializing with other moms.
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