One of the biggest challenges of parenting can be navigating other people's children - and their behaviour.
However, one mum has been left speechless after two little girls posted a 'nasty' note through their door to try and upset her four-year-old daughter.
Taking to popular Mumsnet forum Am I Being Unreasonable (AIBU), the concerned parent voiced her worries and checked with other mums to see if she was being out of line.
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She explained in a post entitled 'AIBU to feel disturbed that my daughter received this through the door': "I got home tonight to find my partner with something to show me. He said 'I didn't want to tell you this at work but two little girls put this through the letterbox for DD'. (She is four). It is a nice looking card with DD's (dear daughter's) name on, but with a nasty note inside, signed from a name of a little girl who lives round the corner.
"We have a google doorbell and can see two girls dropped it through this afternoon. The two girls are from our estate, aged eight and four. The girls are good friends with each other but lately the younger one has been playing with DD. She even came to our house last week to play briefly!
"When they were playing I heard the little girl say 'so you know, I don't want to be friends anymore'. DD didn't seem bothered and later on they seemed fine.
"The handwriting is good, I don't think the four year old has done this. We haven't told or shown DD on anyone else.
"What to do about it? I do not know the mum's well. It seems very nasty and can't believe this sort if thing happens so young now! Tell me if I over reacting. What would you do?"
Parents rushed to share advice with the worried mum, with many agreeing that she should take up the note with the offending children's parents.
"If you have it recorded on your google door thing, I would be straight over to speak to the parents. It's a horrible thing for those kids to do," wrote one.
Another added: "I would definitely go round and speak to both sets of parents and I'd take a still screenshot of the doorbell video too in case they disputed it. I wouldn't go round like a raving banshee but nor would I be overly polite about it."
One Mumsnet user urged the mum: "Tell the parents. If this was my child doing this I would want to know so I could speak to them about being kind and bullying. Glad your daughter didn’t see it."
"That is disturbing and sinister. That is real red flag behaviour for an eight year old girl. The four year old is obviously blameless. The eight year old girl’s parents need to know and this weird dynamic between these two girls needs to be stopped immediately," another fumed.
What do you think? Should the mum take action - or is it a case of young children causing mischief? Let us know in the comments.
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