I'm on a local forum for moms, it's been pretty good until the last while. There's a kid who is a bully, and his mother has never been one to watch him that close. So at playdates, it's a bit of a nightmare having to keep an eye on him (he hits, pushes, bites, tackles, scratches...) as his mother doesn't seem to get it (she's been told to not let him off the main level of a few houses, so he's at least where all the adults are, but she'll forget because she's too busy chatting).
Anyhow he's gotten worse to the point that a lot of us don't go, or try to go around her (if she posts she can't make something then we're all going). Which sucks of course. And at the last one he got into lipstick and decorated the walls, carpets and jackets of people with it :yikes: so his mother proceeded to yell profane words at him in front of everyone else's kids (not everyone chooses to cuss at their child as a parenting style).
So someone posted the question of how to deal with that situation, do you do private invites instead of public (right now it's public so newbies can come and nobody is left out) or do you ask her not to come (she comes to almost everything), or???
It's just interesting because everyone seems to know who it's about, not sure how she'll take the whole thing, but then again her kid has bitten, pushed, hit, clubbed, tackled other kids, broken things and now the lipstick issue - never doing anything about her kid or offering to clean up the mess (apart from suggesting a cleaner that gets lipstick off of carpet, leather and walls...).
Sometimes dogs are so much easier!
Lana
Anyhow he's gotten worse to the point that a lot of us don't go, or try to go around her (if she posts she can't make something then we're all going). Which sucks of course. And at the last one he got into lipstick and decorated the walls, carpets and jackets of people with it :yikes: so his mother proceeded to yell profane words at him in front of everyone else's kids (not everyone chooses to cuss at their child as a parenting style).
So someone posted the question of how to deal with that situation, do you do private invites instead of public (right now it's public so newbies can come and nobody is left out) or do you ask her not to come (she comes to almost everything), or???
It's just interesting because everyone seems to know who it's about, not sure how she'll take the whole thing, but then again her kid has bitten, pushed, hit, clubbed, tackled other kids, broken things and now the lipstick issue - never doing anything about her kid or offering to clean up the mess (apart from suggesting a cleaner that gets lipstick off of carpet, leather and walls...).
Sometimes dogs are so much easier!
Lana