I am just wanting some opinions about whether or not I was too sensitive about something that happened today.
My husband is working a booth at our county fair this month, (the Los Angeles County fair with about 1.3 million people attending every year). It is a lot of work with long hours. He has a guy helping him this weekend and next who had to drive in from about an hour away. Due to the long hours, my husband offered to let him stay at our house last night so that he wouldn't have to drive all the way home and back. No problem there.
This morning I met the man for the first time, (I was in bed by the time they got home last night). I chatted with him a bit as I was fixing sandwiches for my husband and him to have for lunch. My boys, (ages 6.5 and 8) were playing in the adjoining living room. The boys were playing a game that involved them wrestling around a bit which is nothing new in our house. They were not fighting, but playing a game. This man that I just met decided he didn't like the way they were playing and told them to stop, that they should be nice to each other since they are brothers. OK... that seemed a bit forward to me since I, their mother, was right there and they weren't fighting. I asked him if he has any children. He said he has a boy and a girl. I mentioned that my boys tend to wrestle around a lot but they don't get into physical fights other than the occasional pushing I believe all siblings do. He proceeded to tell me that he doesn't think any kind of physcial play like that should be allowed because it leads to violence in the end. He advised me not to allow my children to wrestle around with each other any more or they will soon be violent with other people.
WHAT?? I don't mind if he has that opinion, but I certainly didn't care for him lecturing my children or myself in my own home, especially after I opened my home to him and did everything I could to ensure he had a pleasant night. Am I just being to sensitive about this or would you also feel that he was out of order?
My husband is working a booth at our county fair this month, (the Los Angeles County fair with about 1.3 million people attending every year). It is a lot of work with long hours. He has a guy helping him this weekend and next who had to drive in from about an hour away. Due to the long hours, my husband offered to let him stay at our house last night so that he wouldn't have to drive all the way home and back. No problem there.
This morning I met the man for the first time, (I was in bed by the time they got home last night). I chatted with him a bit as I was fixing sandwiches for my husband and him to have for lunch. My boys, (ages 6.5 and 8) were playing in the adjoining living room. The boys were playing a game that involved them wrestling around a bit which is nothing new in our house. They were not fighting, but playing a game. This man that I just met decided he didn't like the way they were playing and told them to stop, that they should be nice to each other since they are brothers. OK... that seemed a bit forward to me since I, their mother, was right there and they weren't fighting. I asked him if he has any children. He said he has a boy and a girl. I mentioned that my boys tend to wrestle around a lot but they don't get into physical fights other than the occasional pushing I believe all siblings do. He proceeded to tell me that he doesn't think any kind of physcial play like that should be allowed because it leads to violence in the end. He advised me not to allow my children to wrestle around with each other any more or they will soon be violent with other people.
WHAT?? I don't mind if he has that opinion, but I certainly didn't care for him lecturing my children or myself in my own home, especially after I opened my home to him and did everything I could to ensure he had a pleasant night. Am I just being to sensitive about this or would you also feel that he was out of order?
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