My friend asked if I could babysit her 5 year daughter today so she could get some errands done. Everything was fine until she started taking kitchen utensils and pretending like they were magic wands. She began to run around with a wooden spoon and a silicone spatula, I managed to get the wooden spoon from her but would run when I would try to get the other. Before people jump down my throat, we have a baby gait and I removed anything sharp from my lower cabinets after DS was born. She started banging the spoon on everything, walls, my DS door when he was sleeping, playpen, just everything. After she woke up my son, I placed him in the playpen so I can try to encourage her to play with something else again. She ran again only this time into my playpen and knocked my son backwards (he was standing) and his head hit his piano toy. He was hysterical and I was pissed. At this point she still didn't stop and climbed over the playpen to run from me. I immediately went to DS and he calmed down and thankfully wasn't hurt to bad. He does have a small bruise but nothing terrible. After tending to him, I booked it after her and picked her up and sat her in a chair in the corner. I was not rough by any means, she does not have a mark on her and she is not complaining she is sore. She was however pissed and started screaming at the top of her lungs. I ended up sitting in a chair in front of her because she was saying if I don't let her go she is "going to make DS fall again". I called her mother and told her the situation and she said okay and was on her way. When she arrived (10 minutes) her daughter was of course crying and she ran over like I just beat her within a inch of her life! She got in my face while holding her daughter and began screaming at me. Her daughter was trying to smack me but I moved out of the way. She asked her daughter if she was hurt and she said no but began to say I made her sit in the chair for a very long time and wouldn't let her go to the bathroom. She never said anything about having to go to the bathroom only screamed awful things she will do if I don't let her out. Now my friend is pissed, but I know she is going through a rough time (divorce) and I am trying to wait it out to see if her head will clear. I understand when your child is upset, it can cause you to go into defensive mode but I have never seen her act this way, in the 7 years we have been friends. How do I handle this?
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