Furious at this parent!!

[bright sparks]

Just to clarify though, I haven't told her how to parent, and while I'm furious at what commenced with the ice cream, I'm not confronting her about it, I've come here to vent instead. I'm human, and I'm allowed to feel what I feel which is seriously annoyed. As I mentioned earlier, this behaviour has only become increasingly bad over the last 6-12 months and it's not been daily, like in waves and recently there has just been a series of massive incidents, everything else I've been happy to work on as what I would consider, normal all be it bad, 3 year old behaviour. I think also knowing I was closing, I've likely put up with more than I should have knowing this. Also, I think it's much easier to say what we would do in a situation when we aren't in it.

This boy was also 2 1/2 when he smeared poo on the carpet, and it wasn't malicious, naughty yes, but not simply to be awful. Never happened again, and he was all together a different child.