Painful play dates
By deedles88
@deedles88 (297)
Australia
March 13, 2007 2:42am CST
My daughter and the baby across the road have play-dates, they are 9 days apart and are about to turn 1.
The only problem is that when they are having a play date, the other baby gets very rough and hurts my daughter. It takes a bit to calm her, and I put her somewhere else and give her some other toys, but the other baby comes over takes her toys and hurts her again.
My daughter has been run over by her block tray, her singing bus, her walker, her pushing walker and been hit with remotes, blocks, toys, and god knows what else!
Any time it happens, the other mum just says "Be gentle"...
It makes me angry, because she doesn't do anything else. If my daughter hurt hers, I say to her "Uh uh, we don't hurt our friends" and I move her away. If she does it again, she gets a tap on the hand. But its very rare that she become rough.
I don't know how to tell the other mum to stop her child from being too rough with my little girl..
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@SpitFire179 (2536)
• Canada
13 Mar 07
I hate to say this but maybe it's time you let your daughter take up for yourself... Let her take care of the problem, she'll stand up for herself if she knows that your not going to jump in every single time, and it teaches independance and many other life lessons that babies need to learn.
There's a show on i believe the womens network, called parenthood, i believe, it talks all about these issues and what you can and can't do in situations like this, what's best for your daughter and all that kind of stuff, and it's not just from one point of view, it's from several mothers, who all think differently, a doctor, psychologist, child developement specialist, and many other professionals.
I reccomend watching it, it might give you some extra insight on this.
Hope this helps you hun
Ash
