Is it okay to step in and tell another child not to force hugs or hold my child’s hand if my kid clearly doesn’t want it?

Today I met another mom and her son. Her kid is 2 and mine is 17 months old. Her son kept trying to hold my son’s hand, but my son clearly didn’t want to. He was kind of forcing it and squeezing his hand a lot, and my son looked uncomfortable. The mom didn’t really say anything, and I wanted to say something but i hold myself.

Later they were playing and her son tried to hug my son. Again, my son didn’t want to, but the other kid forced the hug and my son lost his balance and fell really hard on the floor. He hit his head and cried for a long time, and it made me really upset.

The mom said sorry, but she wasn’t really watching her son closely. I also noticed earlier that he tried to push or kick other kids.

Now I feel worried about my son because he hit his head pretty badly, and I also feel guilty that I didn’t say anything to stop it.

How do you handle situations like this? If another child is forcing physical contact (like holding hands or hugging) with your child and the other parent doesn’t step in, what would you say or do?

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Should he go?

I’m a bit in two minds about this. My husbands very good friend (and one of his groomsmen) is getting married in November. It is a 3.5 hour drive away. I am due October 20th. We will also have a 2 year old. I will obviously not be going as there’s no way I want to be driven all that way 3-4 weeks post partum.

He’s such a good dad and I know that he’ll leave it up to me to decide and won’t force going. He’s been amazing this pregnancy and done 95% of the childcare so I can rest. I sort of want to say he can go but I’m terrified of being alone that fresh post partum. What should I do?

Is it wrong for an adult grown women that lives in the same neighborhood as you to purposely try to be spiteful and petty towards a child?! correct me if I'm wrong.

So my son has really bad anxiety.. long story short he was diagnosed with selective mutism by a physiatrists.. anyway he got into it with a neighbor across the street from me because her daughter is annoying to him.. so my son ended up going to her door and she storms out yelling at him and asking him what is his problem.. by the time I got out my car to head towards him he pushed her and she grabbed him by his shirt and jacked him up and was like keep your son away from my house. Mind you we live in an apartment complex lol things got out of hand real quick.. of course she went and told the leasing office.. and she just suggest the kids stay away from eachother. ANYWAY my son has 3 kids that he was really tight with up until today. ( her kids and the other kids and my son was all playing together outside ) since that last incident happened my son been staying to himself.. she invited my son friends inside her house and literally excluded him out in front of everybody my son got upset and started crying.. mind you she never invited them in her apartment until she seen that's what i was doing.. and her kids aren't even " close " with those other kids.. i felt so bad for my son because his feelings was hurt.. i feel like she was being spiteful as hell and was trying to purposely trigger him. Imagaine being left out like that in front of everybody.. i understand her and my son had that situation but he is literally a child 8 years old.

Hello, has anyone been leaving your little ones yet? I’ve gone out twice briefly. The first time I cried lots! 🙈

I was supposed to be going for lunch with friends on the 18th- few hours and 20 minutes away. I was anxious about that and 50/50 whether I’d bring baby.
But my friend randomly got tickets for a daytime event. It’s a long drive out in the open, no shelter and not pram friendly, with a specific time slot- therefore taking baby would be very tricky! It’s over an hours drive away and would be gone for 4-5 hours.
Torn whether to go. Husband is ‘ok’ with baby, but not great!! Even yesterday he had her and she was grumbling and half crying and he just carried on chatting to her oblivious- so I had to say she’s getting upset can you pick her up. She’s also at a fussy stage of naps and drinking the bottle.
What would you guys do?

Why can’t I get it together

I feel like such an asshole and idiot. I couldn’t even get my mind together today to make my poor babies dinner on time. One youngest one being 1 kept telling me she was hungry. By the time I got my mind together come up with something to eat (we don’t have may groceries to work with right now) she fell asleep 😭😭😭😭😭 and I tried to wake her to eat but she was so tired she didn’t want to wake up. And I feel terrible because I could hear her little stomach grumble. Idk what’s wrong with me, I hav such brain fog that I can’t even get the basic things done around the house. I contemplate it so much that the state of my house is driving me insane and such a big mess and I can’t get myself out of it. I feel like such a failure.

Is it right????

Hey there! I’m a sahm.. I need advice.. my husband and I gotten into a fight about “communication” since he works all the time and is on work calls all the time. Well I kinda kept my distance with everyone but fake smile for my babies for 2 days because I recently been feeling alone and I had family drama with my own, he’s been asking what’s wrong I told him that he’s always on the phone when you’re home (he works out of town a lot and home on weekends) and he said he’s not always on it and got upset got up and left the room but he came back got more into a fight..well I told him fine go leave then, ik I’m wrong to tell him to leave which he did and I’m dealing with postpartum rage/depression, but I made an appointment with a doctor to help my health journey but anyways I called him the day he left saying how sorry I am I got no calls back and his mom called me saying he needs to take a break so now when I call him he put me on silent mode, at this point idc about the fight he has 2 girls 1 is 5 and the other 8 months old, he hasn’t called me to check up on the girls nor gave me money I have $125 cash thats it, I’m home alone. My anxiety is finally calming down but dealing with a teething baby and keeping a 5 year old busy is hard. I called him again to tell him I am sorry and being home all the time is hard and the rage and to forgive me on my part but he’s completely silent, I also have a bubble marathon run on Saturday but Friday I have to register in.. I hope he comes home but the no talking is that strange??

Overstimulated

I am a single work from home mom and I just need to vent. I feel like I am constantly “on”. I work from home and have my baby every minute of the day and I have little to no time to just decompress unless she is asleep because we are in the constant whining phase. I try to read but I can’t really get into a book because there is always something to do whether it’s laundry, dishes, etc. I just want to know I’m not alone in this because I feel like I am on an island. Any tips would be great.