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First time mums

Would you continue a potential friendship if their kid keeps hurting your kid?

I recently met a woman whose child is the same age as mine. We’ve only met about two times so far. She said she’d like to meet again and suggested doing a playdate.

The problem is that every time we’ve seen each other, her child has been physical with my kid. The other day he pushed and then fell on top of my child, which made my kid cry really badly. Today we ran into them again and he hit my child on the head with a book.

Even though the mom does tell her child not to do it, it keeps happening. I also noticed that her child does this to other kids too. Today at the park he hit another child and made them cry.

But I realized something: whenever I’m around them, I feel really stressed because I constantly feel like I need to watch closely and protect my kid.

The reason I was initially open to the friendship is that we’re from the same country and speak the same language, and since we don’t have family here it seemed like it could be nice to build a friendship.

But now I’m not sure.

Would you keep trying to build a friendship and do playdates in this situation, or would you just step back before the friendship really starts?