What do you ussually do when a kid pushed your child in the play area ?

United States
December 4, 2008 5:06pm CST
yesterday, I brought my daughter to the play area inside the mall. She has been playing with some kids running around, and suddenly there is this one kid who pushed her. My daughter stumble on the ground and look confused. It's her first experienced being pushed. I was surprised and does not know what to do. should I call the attention of the kid ? Should I tell his mother ? And then after a few minutes he pushed another kid that is way smaller than him, and she fell. I gasped loudly as the child might be hurt. She was picked up and consoled by her mother. But the older kid just continue playing, and I keep a close watch to my daughter.
4 responses
@ravinskye (8237)
• United States
4 Dec 08
There isn't much you can do. If you try to say something to the mother she probably will just get defensive and be mean to you. I would just try to keep your daughter away from kids like that. Once my daughter got old enough I taught her to protect herself and not let kids push her around like that.
• United States
8 Dec 08
teach her to go tai quan do on them heh.
@Ritchelle (3790)
• Philippines
18 Jun 09
the same thing happened to me and what i did instinctively was i really blurted out to the kid, "why did you do that?" this got the attention of his mother who was busy shopping. in many cases, we are held back by many reasons but the main reason we have in this world as a mother is to protect our kids. nobody causes that startled and shocked reaction to my child so with no qualms i blurted that plain question which would catch the attention of both the child and his mother. no law in any culture would accuse you of anything by plainly putting a misguided child in place. no wrong that wasn't corrected would ever be right.
@hartnsoul (558)
• Philippines
18 Jun 09
Its a reality for kids to have someone push them while playing. My daughter being big for her age often play with bigger kids and got pushed a few times. I just watched to see how my daughter would react. The first time she was pushed, she didn't cry. My husband and I were just observing. She fell and looked around. When she saw me and daddy motioning her to stand up and go back playing he face lighted up and went back to play. Somehow its an 'accident' to be pushed while playing. But one time, I saw my daughter being pushed deliberately by a little girl. Shouting the girl said, "Go away we are playing!" and so pushed my daughter. I looked around for any mother to come scolding her daughter but none came forward. My daughter was crying and so I went to her and consoled her. Then i redirected her attention to another group of kids in the mall play area.
@luvandpower (2048)
• United States
4 Dec 08
this happens a lot actually. depending on the age various measures should ha dbeen took. if the child is liek lets say four and below, then i would had not done much of anything. why? because at that age they are still motorly developing, and that is jsut a natural thinkg for them, they don't even know their true strength yet. if they was like four to eight, i would had explained how that is a bad thign to do , you can't just pick up a random child and put him in time out now can you?