A mum has expressed anger after a stranger’s son bit her two-year-old daughter at a play centre.
The stranger apologised to the mum but did not tell her son to stop playing or alert the mum to what had happened.
Mumsnet user TwoPeaPods took to the parenting site to tell her story.
She said:
“Took daughter aged two to soft play today. Was very quiet only two other mums there. One of their little boys also two was very loud/shouty/pushy and kept screaming in her face.
“She wasn’t bothered and the mum just kept telling him to stop. Anyhoo the mum said ‘son don’t do that, son stop it now, SON STOP THATS BAD”. She went and got him and my DD came screaming over to me holding her arm.
“Mum catches my eye and said “Sorry it was my little boy that made her cry”. I thought he’d hit or pushed her. And he went back in to play.?
“Tonight at bath a big purple f*cking bite mark. She SEEN him do it. Didn’t have the decency to even tell me. Didn’t even give me a proper apology, didn’t tell her son to say sorry and didn’t even tell him off.
“I could have put a cold compress on it had she said. She’s a regular as I’ve seen her before. I’m absolutely fuming. I honestly think I’ll need to go and see her next time, even though I know there’s not much can be done after the fact.
If it was mine they would have been taken straight home. And I would have been mortified. I can’t sleep I’m still upset over it.”
While some people were sympathetic to the mum’s story saying that she should take a photo of the bite and show the people who work in the play area, others suggested that these things happen and that she should just deal with it.
“I think you need to either accept this or not take your child out to play,” said one person.
“Maybe she didn’t see exactly what happened and was unaware of the biting?” said another.
So, what would you do?
