I yelled “ASSHOLE” at a kids park today.

My son and I were leaving the park when a boy purposely bumped the hell out of my son. I yelled “HEY” and the boy kept walking. So then I shouted “ASSHOLE”. I was going to walk away and leave it that but I just couldn’t… so I walked up to the boy & asked for his parents. But instead he started to talk back to me. I asked him to apologize to my son and he said he wasn’t going to. He had a whole lot of attitude the whole time. Even went as far as to say “you’re lucky my sister is here”. Um. Or what?? I told him he was being a bully and that’s not cool! My son is smaller and younger than him! What upset me even more is my son has complained about this kid a few times before! Saying the kid is always calling him names!!

Idk. I feel bad for yelling asshole in front of a lot of kids. Parents looking at me crazy. And I also feel bad as an adult to call a kid “asshole”. It just seriously triggered me to see him have the nerve to bump my son so hard even with me standing there. My son is a good kid and I’m all he has so it did break my heart to see him cry & feel so humiliated and bullied.

I’m not confrontational at all and I just hope I didn’t take it too far.

*edit: Thank you to all the mommies who understood my hurt and frustration. Also, thank you to all the mommies who although did not agree with the way I handled it, still did not berate me!