Am I the only one?

I just had to ask this..am I the only one who disciplines my kids anymore???

We were at McDonalds last night with our 6 yo old son and 18 month old daughter. They had a playland with a specific area designated for kids under 3 along with the huge area for the bigger kids. Of course the bigger kids were in the baby area throwing their Happy Meal toys in the air and pushing each other up and down the baby slide etc. Quite a few times I had to tell these kids (easily 7-10 years old) to watch out for my daughter. Meanwhile their parents are paying no attention.

So we sit down and eat and I take my DD back over to the baby area. Now there is a kid in there about 3 years old or so and I already knew he was a brat because I had watched him yell at his mother over and over again while they were eating and she never said a word to him. So they are in there playing along with another little boy. Erika (my DD) is going to step down into the little play area from the slide and this 3 yo old boy gets behind her and SHOVES her face forward down about 2 feet. Of course I freaked (I was standing there but just couldn’t get to her fast enough) I just yelled at him “she’s a baby. You don’t push babies” He starts crying. OK the mom finally comes over. I had calmed down a little and apologized for yelling at him and said I had just had enough of her being pushed around in the baby section! And she says to me “Well he is a baby too!!” and that was it!! She never told him to apologize or anything! And he was much older then Erika but yes he was young.

Don’t get me wrong. I am FARRRR from one of those crazy parents. I am one of those ones that if you fall and if it isn’t bleeding or broken don’t come and see me!! LOL I am very hands off most of the time. But if my son had pushed over a much younger child on purpose he would have had to apologize and then we would have left. This mother did nothing.

I am not here to be my kids friends. I can be that when they are 18. Right now I am here to make them a functioning part of society.

Having 12 hours to think about last night, I can see that maybe I did over react a little. But this kid was mean and pushed her on purpose and nothing was said to him (or to me). What does that teach him? And when I was leaving, not one parent would look at me. I know they heard me say that the other big kids were pushing her around. That McD’s must have been all abuzz after I left!!! LOL

Sorry to ramble. It just pissed me off!! LOL