But she didn't stand up for him amidst a whole lot of adults 'turning on him'. She sat there and allowed him to be exposed to exactly what she tried to do to the little girl.

That's my point.

Her son's not going to see her 'defense' of him in this article she wrote on the internet, where we ONLY have her accounting of what happened and can't track veracity for ourselves. And if he did, he won't care, because it no longer matters. The moment is past. He's already been publicly rebuked by people ALSO stepping outside their lane.

You're making this be about gender and thereby perpetuating double standards. . It's not. Pretend the little girl is another little boy. The result is the same.

If she wants to discipline her son by making him apologize, that's her right as HIS parent.

But you don't get to demand the parent of the other little boy (remember, we're pretending the girl is a little boy as an example) make their son apologize too. Thags for THAT BOY'S PARENT to decide appropriate discipline and whether or not said discipline be public.

This is about parenting rights and responsibilities. Not the gender of the children.

In fact, I want you to take a minute and think about how this boy mom's continuing insistence that the little girl be forced to apologize opened the door for all these other adults to come and publicly rebuke him to the point of humiliation.

Had she kept her peace, that's far less likely to have happened. As it is, those other adults are likely seeing that this little boy is learning bullying behavior from, at the very least, his mother. Because that's what she tried to do to that other mom. Make a public spectacle to cow her.

Since bullying isn't good for social cohesion, thise who are predisposed to stand up to bullying will do so in whatever manner they can, even if subconsciously. In this case, it was reinforcing to her son that it's not okay to hit other children, especially little girls.

The reason why little boys need to be taught this is obvious. If you normalize hitting in childhood, you'll have nor.alozed violence in adulthood. In childhood, kids can punch and scrap and not do much damage, generally speaking because there's not much size and force difference between boys and girls. That changes with puberty though.

Don't act like you don't know that.

Boy mom refers to mother's of sons who are overly fixated on their sons to the point where they are over protective and coddle them and think they can do no wrong, even when they're grown.

When I refer to boy mom dynamics, I'm referring to the article as I wasn't there for the incident. Her article is classic boy mom behavior. She's creating a narrative where her son is the victim and he was just this innocent little angel who did no wrong and was treated so unfairly. Read that narrative again, place yourself there at the party while you're reading it. Ask yourself some questions based on general behavior of children and adults at parties. Put gender aside while you're doing it. Pretend both children were boys or both were girls or the gender of each was flipped.

Does that narrative still track for you? Or do you think she's coddling her son out of embarrassment or something triggering her own ego?