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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b][quote=Anonymous][quote]Insane Pool Rage Anger Management  Bully Mom Here.
You know, posters are acting as if there was a range of choices here from a close-by attentive staffer who I could have easily asked to intervene, to a hovering mother who was eagerly waiting to discipline him, to a self sufficent toddler I could have just abandoned in order to whisk the squirt cannon off to some storage locker, to this little darling (in reality [b]a child way too large for the baby pool[/b]) who did not respond to my requests to stop and my good-natured entreaties that he play more nicely.   Here's the thing.  None of these other magical choices existed or worked.  I did what I thought best as you would have as well.  Apparently you were all there (NOT) and felt I didn't do the right thing.  So sorry I failed you, but hey, I think this kid lived through it without permanent psychological scars.  And as several people pointed out, the face that he returned and gave me a very nice apology...to me says that his mother kind of agreed with me about his behavior in the first place.[/b][/quote]
In an otherwise fairly articulate post (by DCUM standards), it's curious that you described the offender as "way too large" for the baby pool.  Was he the fat kid people like to pick on?

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Dear Insane Pool Mom,

Why did you post on DCUM in the first place if you are now angry that people responded?[/quote]

I don't get your post.  This is a debate and responding to other peoples' posts doesn't necessarily mean that one is angry.  I also think my questions, as stated above, are valid.  I've been on DCUM for many years and it seems to me that people on DCUM often interrogate an OP who presents a life situation as if assuming that OP had a "supermarket" of choices and circumstances available to that person that are just laughable.  Life is life.  One acts based on circumstances as they present themselves.  Asking endless "why didn't you do this, why didn't you do that, why didn't you try this" or offering that your own parenting is far superior and that you could have done much better....what do you get out of that?  I guess it makes YOU feel protected in some way.

At any rate, this thread is stale.

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