AITJ for saying “Ewww a bully” to a 7 year old?
My (31f) brother (38m) is currently going through a divorce and having trouble adjusting and figuring everything out regarding my two nephews. My mom and I have been helping with school pick ups and drop offs because my SIL works for the school district and can’t make it to his school in time.
Little man (6m) has been having trouble with a bully in his class. His Dad has opinions but my SIL doesn’t want to make too much noise since she works for the district. I think that’s her just not wanting to deal with it, but whatever.
I was the lucky winner this day of being off work at a time I could pick up Little man. I was greeting his teacher and giving him his hug when this little bully came up and started teasing him. Little man told him to stop and started trying to hide behind me. Finally the kids said “Ewwww, a baby.” I’m guessing to mock him for trying to hide and because at this point little man was getting upset.
The kid ignored every attempt the teacher gave to get him to stop before that point amd finally, I had it. I looked the little snot in the eye and said “Ewww, a bully.” Apparently, he didn’t like being called out. So now I have a 6 year old trying to have a good at me. (Hilarious insults these little kids come up with) Now every time he said something to me or tried to come closer I would step back with little man and gently shoo him away with my hand while making an overly disgusted face. The kid started crying and ran off.
My brother bought me a beer, he thought is was funny. My SIL is pissed, saying I bullied a child and made problems for her at work, imagine the emotional damage I did to that kid, blah blah. Got even angrier when I mentioned how she doesn’t even seem to care about the emotional damage that kid was doing to her son. My mom agrees with my sentiment but thinks I could have been more mature about it.
I don’t want to cause problems for my SIL at work but would this even cause problems? She works for a different school in the district than the one little man attends. Was I the jerk for I handled the kid?
