I need some parenting advice. Let me start by saying that I have a 25 month old little boy who is very full of energy and who gets very vocal when he is surrounded by other people.
Today we went to the McDonald's across the street from us and while we were there he played in the play area.
Felix had a blast when he was there and while he wasn't always visible because he laughs really loudly I knew he was ok.
Now this one child came along who had to be 3 or 4 years old who wouldn't let Felix get down from the slide, I had no idea that that was going on as this was all the way at the top of the thing. So when Felix started yelling "Stop it!" several times to no avail and then wailing "Mommy!" I knew I had to get up there and figure out what was wrong. That little boy wouldn't let Felix down and when asked to scoot over so that Felix could get down he refused until his parent coaxed him down. Only then was Felix able to go down the slide, this was all in the span of 10 minutes. Now when Felix got off the slide I figured this is the end of it so went back to my conversation with JJ's cousin who's in from out of town so I got out of there and back to our table.
A few minutes go by and Felix is now trying to get off the jungle gym altogether but this little boy is once again in his way and won't move. At this point Felix is starting to get frustrated and is trying to force his way past the kid who is pushing him back. So seeing Felix's distress I proceed to get back in this jungle gym and ask the kid nicely but firmly if he can move so that my son can get out and we can go home. The kid looked at me and said "No!", so I asked him again and after his guardian cajoled him in to moving then and only then was Felix able to get down. As he was passing by the little boy spit on Felix!
He literary spit on him!
Now this is where as an adult and as a Mom I put my big girl pants on and tried not to slap the shit out of that kid and just looked at him and told him that he wasn't nice and that he should apologize. Again the kid said something in the negative and I asked him if he would want someone to spit on him and his answer scared and shocked me! He said "Yes! I wouldn't mind!" and I just looked at him and asked him to say sorry to Felix and at this point he just stared blankly at me and said "Sorry!" at which point I asked him to apologize to my son and not to me which he did.
So I grabbed Felix got his shoes on and off we went but not before I overheard the lady who was the kid's guardian say to the kid's Dad that I had yelled at his son... She said that in Spanish because she assumed that because I am so white that I had no idea what she had said...
At this point I chose to walk away because I was liable to yell and possibly hit the lady. Now I ask you this what would you have done? How would you have handled this situation?
