I work at a preschool/daycare, and today as a mother was picking up her two children, she "saw another child hit her kid". The other teacher and I did not see this. The mom says "wow I saw and heard that, he was like a windmill punching him." Now, this woman is a notorious liar, as well as makes senseless excuses for her kids' bad behavior, so since we didn't see it happen were skeptical, and just sort of said ""friend" that wasn't a nice thing to do, you need to apologize to him, hitting isn't acceptable" yada yada.
Oh her way out of my classroom she stops and tells the child she accused of hitting her son "you know that wasn't a nice thing to do. I hope you don't hit my son again, we are still friends, right? That was a mistake, and I make mistakes too, but you will never hurt my son again, Okay?" Umm what the fuck right?
The mom pulls up next to me while I'm at my car about to leave and proceeds to tell me "did it bother you that I talked to "kid"? I told her that it made me uncomfortable. I would have said more, but I was caught off-guard and she yet again made me uncomfortable, and she knew that. She also said "did you have a bad day? You seem really upset?" I told her no and left it at that and told her again that its over and done with, but it was weird. Then I came straight home to ask all you lovely people your opinion on the situation. By the way, this is not the first time she has done this to someone else's kid at school.
What I think: You have no right to talk to another child like you are their parent. You can parent your children however the hell you want, but it is never okay to push your own opinions onto some other kid. She not only created an unpleasant situation between us and the child, she undermined me as being his caretaker at the time by speaking to the child how she wanted instead of letting the teachers handle it. She would lose her shit if a random parent talked to her kids that way. It's also not okay to intimidate the teacher like that.
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