Another Little Girl Took Her Daughter’s Dress At A Play Session, So She Asked For It Back, And The Girl’s Mom Was Not Happy
This mom recently took her two-year-old daughter to a local play cafe, and for the big outing, her daughter wanted to wear a sparkly fairy dress.
At the play cafe, though, there is apparently a costume box that all of the kids can use to play dress up. So, as soon as she and her daughter got there, her daughter wanted to join the other kids and play with the costume box.
Of course, that meant she needed to take her daughter’s dress off first– which was not a problem since her daughter had been wearing other base layers underneath.
And afterward, she just draped the original fairy dress over a chair at the table where they were sitting.
Anyway, she and her daughter ended up leaving the table to go play for a while before returning back to their table to eat.
And after they sat down again, her daughter literally burst into tears before pointing at another girl– who was maybe four years old– wearing the sparkly fairy dress.
Obviously, there had just been some sort of mix-up, and the other little girl must have gone up to their table and taken the dress, thinking it was a part of the costume box.
“It’s no big deal. Kids are always rummaging through other people’s bags,” she explained.
“Her mom was also having coffee and chatting with another mom. So obviously, she hadn’t noticed her take it and then just assumed it was from the dressing-up box.”
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So, she first just tried to calm her daughter down for about ten minutes.
Then, she told her daughter how important it was to share and said that the other little girl would be upset if they asked for the dress back.
“I also tried distracting her with other things, but two-year-olds are stubborn, and all she wanted was to wear her dress,” she recalled.
And by that point, none of the calming down had worked. In fact, it actually had the opposite effect, and her daughter had gone into a full-blown meltdown.
This forced her to consider two options. One, she could have just brought her daughter home– which means she would have had to ask for the dress back before they left. Or two, she could just speak to the other little girl’s mom.
It became clear that either way, though, she was going to have to talk to the little girl’s mother about the dress. So, she decided to go with the latter and stay at the play cafe.
But first, she found another princess dress in the costume box. Then, she brought it over to the girl’s mom and explained the entire situation before asking if her daughter could have the dress back.
“I also said, please take your time; I don’t want to upset your daughter; I’ll carry on trying to distract mine,” she said.
Despite her best efforts, though, she could tell that the other little girl was not happy. So, it took about ten minutes of wrangling before that girl agreed to take off the dress and hand it over.
Afterward, though, the girl’s mother treated her like she had killed the little girl’s cat. More specifically, the mom just walked the dress over to their table, placed it down without saying anything, and then glared at her for the rest of the entire session.
And even though her daughter and the other girl ended up forgetting about the whole dress debacle and playing with each other by the end of the day, the girl’s mother still refused to engage with her.
So now, she has been left wondering if she handled the situation correctly. To be honest, she does not really care about what some random mom thinks of her. At the same time, though, she also wants to make sure she is not spoiling her daughter or teaching her that meltdowns are okay.
Do you think she tried to navigate this situation with good intentions? Why do you think the other mom was so pissed off at her? If you had been in her shoes, what would you have done differently?
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