After two 9-year-old boys get into incident on the school playground, one boy's mother publicly blames therapist-mom for the incident, accusing her of being unfit parent and therapist out of spite: 'You therapists think you’re better than everyone else'

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Emma Saven
Sep 23, 2025 4:00 PM EDT

School mothers are often worse than teenage girls when it comes to jealousy. Whatever situations their children are involved in, the first person they will likely blame is the other child's mother, 'Well, she should have taught him not to bite' or 'She parked me in, that's why little Johnny was late to class'

An endless list of blame, that rarely gets put on themselves! It may start with comparing their children…but the comparison eventually always leads to: who's driving what, who's going where on vacation and whose husbands were the high school heartthrob of the 80s. They forget that each child is made up of completely different DNA and no matter how forcefully they try to mold their children, no one child could ever be exactly like another…for better and for worse. 

So, whether your issues have to do with a child or a parent, think before making it personal and trying to bring someone else down, especially before doing so in public…or worse, in front of your children.

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  • This mother has forgotten all social etiquette when she starts shouting at another mother on school grounds, after their children were involved in a little playground altercation…She started telling her that she wasn't a great parent and then continued to bring her job into the conversation…Claiming that she's not only an unfit parent, but an unfit therapist… 'If she can't even control her kids, how can she advise others…'.

    Seems this mother now has 3 types of people she hates: 1.) Other mothers, 2.) Other mother's kids and 3.) Therapists…Which is ironic because it seems she may need one after that public freakout! 

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    "She starts shouting that since I'm a therapist, I should have fixed my son"
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    I'm 40F, and I work as a therapist. One thing I take very seriously is keeping my work separate from my personal life.
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    My clients' business stays in my office. At home, I'm just a mom.
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    My son (9) has a classmate whose mom I see often at pickup. And she has always had this attitude toward me each time we see
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    and a makes comments like, "must be nice to sit around and listen to people complain all day" sometimes just after a Hi hi she turned around
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    and said "I bet you analyze everyone you meet." I usually ignore it because honestly, I'm used to people not really understanding what I do.
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    On Thursday, our boys got into a normal playground scuffle. The teacher handled it right there and when I came I figured it was over.
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    Then at pickup, this mom comes straight at me in front of everyone. She starts shouting that since I'm a therapist, I should have fixed my son
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    and that if I can't control my own kid, how can anyone trust me to help theirs. Then she actually says, You therapists think you're better than everyone else,
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    but you're just failed parents trying to boss other people around.
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    I was stunned. I told her calmly, This isn't about my job, our kids had a disagreement and it was handled.
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    She ignored me and turned to other parents like she was trying to rally them against me.
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    I stood there humiliated while people I usually chat with just looked down at the ground. And my son heard all of it.
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    Later he asked me if I was bad at my job because of what she said. That part broke me.
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    I know she was projecting and trying to tear me down, but it still hurt.
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    I spend my days helping people carry their pain, and I try to be a good mom at home.
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    But in that moment, she made me it feel like I was all nothing.
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    Entitlement is bad enough when it's about money or favors, but dragging my profession into a kids' playground misunderstandings ?
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    That was cruel.
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    Equivalent-Tree-9915 Missed your opportunity to give her your business card. She obviously needs you.
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    yukidaviji Sounds like she may have had a bad experience with one therapist and now hates every single one.
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    JMLegend22 Call your lawyer. Have her served papers for defamation and slander at the school. And say it's now time for you to legally back up your claim since you are openly attempting to harm my business.
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    honorthecrones People in her life have repeatedly told her that she needs therapy. She tried it once and didn't find it helpful because the therapist tried to direct her to positive changes she could mark in her own life instead of letting her just ramble on about how everything was someone else's fault. She now blames therapists for being expensive and ineffective.
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    Alibeee64 You are right not to scream and rant like her, but to remain calm. She's the one that looks crazy, and I'm sure most of the other parents know how she is and have even had run ins with her too. Let her dig her own hole.
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