threats to child

[robson95]

an adult verbally threatoned my child what action can i take

[squarebear]

What did your child do to warrant such behaviour?

[Barmaid]

You could call the police. But this is likely to involve your child in giving an interview and then giving evidence in court (if the CPS decide to prosecute).

This sort of thing is fact sensitive though. If you posted more info, it may help.

[Ethel]

How old is your child and the adult? After all, that could be an 18 year old girl threatening to give a 15 year old a slap.

Exactly what was said? If it was something like, 'If you were older I'd thump you' is not a threat

[robson95]

my child is 9 and the adult in questions daughter same age hit him with umberrella and he told her he would brake it if she did it again to which she told her dad who came out and threw a ball at my son(missed him) and told him to f off or he d rip his f***** head of his shoulders

[luckyman]

baseball bat round his head !!!!!!!

[Rosetta]

Well, you could always talk to the adult concerned in a calm and reasonable manner, thus setting a good example to both children that there is a better way to behave than shouting, screaming, threatening and hitting others

[LoftyLottie]

Exactly Rosetta. I would visit the father and calmly tell him that he was out of order swearing at, and threatening violence to a child and that any repeats of this behaviour would be taken very seriously and reported.

[cassa333]

Children play-up to each other all the time and things can quickly get out of hand so I would be careful about what and how I said anything.

Purely on the face of it it seems that the two children were not 'playing nice' . What reason did the girl have for hitting your son? was it unprevoked or was it playing or tit for tat?

what did she then say to her father for him to be so verbally agressive?

Depending on the characture of the family, you and your son could arrange to meet the father and daughter to get to the bottom of it and sort something out. It may have been blown up out of all proportion or something more important may come to light.

[robson95]

spoke to the father who was very agressive and asked if i wonted him to rip my f****** head of i spoke calmly n asked that he not threarten my children in future and see me if any more problems

[LoftyLottie]

I sort of agree with you Cassa. But if the father truly said what he did to robson's 9 year old son, then this is totally unnacceptable and I think Robson should speak to him quietly about it without their two very young children being present.

It is true that parents can get very heated when defending their own kids, but swearing and threatening to rip the boy's head off his shoulders is unacceptable, especially in view of the boy's very young age.

[LoftyLottie]

Well done Robson. You did exactly the right thing. The bloke will think twice about acting in the same way again. You have proved yourself to be the better person by acting in a calm fashion.