this is just my term for the people who feel they need to mother your children …

There is a mother on my daughter's soccer team that has grown fond of my 5 year old, but it's not a fond that I feel “oh that is cute”, it's actually starting to bother me.

Last week the mother gave my daughter a capri sun (children's juice - if you can call it that).  She didn't ask myself or my husband if it was okay, I just happened to look up and saw her getting ready to open it for my daughter.  I yelled my daughter's name and both she and the mom looked up.  My daughter knows she is not allowed these types of drinks, and if the mom had asked for permission, she would have found out that my daughter cannot drink most of those sugar filled fruit drinks because they sour her stomach.

10 minutes later I found my daughter standing with this woman at the the ice cream cart!  I told the woman that I would appreciate it if she did not offer my daughter anything else without first asking me.  I really didn't think that something this simple had to be stated allowed, but I was trying to be nice and not lose my cool.

This isn't the first incident, just the most recent.  How do you deal with people who obviously mean to be kind, but override your duty as a mom?

How did she take it, was she okay about you saying something? At the end of the day, you need to do what you as a mother are comfortable with.

she actually acted offended!  I didn't explain to her about the stomach issues, mostly because I was more concerned with her offering my child stuff without asking first, but both times she looked at me as if I had slapped her in the face.  I was pretty shocked and even asked my friend if I was out of line or maybe unclear the first time … she told me that she would have done much worse!  lol

when we came back to the fields for our second game, I told the little one I wanted her to play by me, she was not allowed near that family. 

I'm a little curious to see what happens tomorrow, and dreading it as bit as well.