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You did nothing wrong, OP. Some people on DCUM tend to be ready to find offense everywhere. The other parent may have felt targeted by what she viewed as your unnecessary interference, or she might have been grumpy for a reason that had nothing to do with you.

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This. Hard to get the whole picture but parents can be really weird about stuff like this (which I find generally a bad thing, but it is what is is)

I was volunteering during a classroom event once and my own son and two other boys were pushing each other etc.  The teacher and other parents were in the room but preoccupied. I said “hey..boys! No pushing!” and another parent called the teacher the next day to complain  that “Larlo’s mom yelled at my son!” (Which I definitely didn’t lol) the parent wasn’t present at the classroom event but it was full of other parents and the teacher.  The kid was apparently traumatized by this and went home and cried to his mom. The teacher was sympathetic to me as she knew I definitely didn’t yell- the was in the room for goodness sake. But- I felt embarrassed.

So yeah- don’t correct other kids, even mildly. This was when my son was in kindergarten and I don’t volunteer for things where I might be supervising kids anymore like field trips- not sure what to do if you can’t tell a kid in your group to not do something..

At any rate, I’d stop doing this, for sure.

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