Molly-Mae Hague Faces Mum-Shaming for ‘Too Soft’ Response to Daughter Bambi’s Behavior

Molly-Mae Hague has been mum-shamed and accused of being ‘too soft’ with parenting her daughter Bambi. 

The influencer, 26, was slammed for refusing to discipline her two-year-old little girl as she shared her latest YouTube vlog. 

Molly has previously opened up about her daughter Bambi biting a child at nursery and how she wasn’t told off by her teacher. 

Now the Love Island star has left mums ‘concerned’ after Bambi listed all the people she wants to bite while speaking to Molly in the new video.  

Molly, who was sat on the floor of her £3.5million mansion, replied telling her little girl ‘what do we use our mouths for, your mouth is for food, we don’t bite anyone OK’. 

But it appeared that Bambi wasn’t totally on board, as she continued: ‘We bite…Emily. We bite… Dory.’

Chuckling, Molly replied, ‘No, no. I don’t know why I’m laughing at that, we bite croissants, we bite pasta, we bite pizza’.  

The Maebe founder, who previously admitted she is ‘selfish’ and ‘not cut out’ to deal with the stresses of parenting, later added that she was ‘mentally exhausted’ by her daughter’s behaviour.

In a later section of the vlog, Molly added: ‘Just running the bath, last step of the day. I am mentally exhausted, I’m not gonna lie.

‘I’ve held it together today and I feel like I’ve definitely managed her mood today better than I would have a few weeks ago.’

Following sharing the vlog with her 2.4million followers, Molly’s clip chatting with Bambi about biting has been re-shared on TikTok and left many shocked by the toddler’s ‘wild’ behaviour. 

They wrote: She turns it into a game….molly is too soft; The threat is wild; Too soft atp especially since it KEEPS happening;

‘You need a calm but firm voice, act shocked and disgusted. she’s doing it for a reaction, give her one that she won’t want to receive again. ik it sounds harsh but’;

‘You need to explain there will be a consequence to biting not just we don’t do that as it will continue; She’s testing molly’s boundaries & molly’s failing terribly’. 

Meanwhile, others praised Molly for keeping the clip of Bambi’s behaviour in the YouTube video and showing the reality of parenting. 

They penned: ‘The thing is she easily could’ve cut this out of the vlog and she didn’t’;

‘Parents can relate don’t care what anyone says! All been there’.

Last month, Molly shared her worries over how her two-year-old daughter Bambi had bitten two other children at nursery in a YouTube video.

The influencer declared: ‘It’s the complete opposite of what I want my child to be’.

She also said she was conflicted over taking her little girl for ice cream after the incident because she was concerned she would view it as a ‘reward for bad behaviour’.

Molly told how her sister Zoe Rae, 28, thought it was a bad idea to give Bambi a treat but revealed she was unsure how to tackle the situation and had even asked AI assistant ChatGPT for advice.

The mother of one, who recently reunited with partner Tommy Fury, admitted she wasn’t sure about the nursery’s ‘gentle parenting’ approach because she didn’t know if Bambi would know biting was wrong.

Opening up on the ordeal, she said: ‘I got a call from nursery today to tell me that she has bitten another child at nursery. This isn’t the first time it’s happened.’

‘Basically at her nursery at the minute, there’s a bit of a biting pandemic going on and all of the children are biting one another.

‘I got a call the other day to tell me that she’d been bitten and she came home with a full-on bite mark on her arm.

‘I wasn’t even cross or upset about it because I knew it would be a matter of days before they’d call me to say she’d done the same thing back to another child.

‘I feel like especially in her nursery, they’re all seeing each other doing it and copying the behaviour basically.’

She added: ‘So I got a call from her key worker to say that she’d bitten again today and I just feel like is taking her for ice cream later on rewarding her…when she’s done something at nursery that’s really not good?

‘But equally, I don’t even know if I should bring attention to it. When it happened the other week, I decided to go with the method of not bringing attention to it at all.

‘So not talking about it, because I think they do it because maybe they want a reaction, or she wants a rise, or she wants us to talk about it.

‘So I didn’t talk about it at all, but that method has clearly not worked because she’s gone into nursery and done it again today so even with no reaction, it’s still happening.

‘She’s getting the reaction she wants…if we’re all talking about it.’

Molly added: ‘It’s so embarrassing for me because it’s the complete opposite of what I want my child to be. All I want her to be in this life is kind, gentle, caring, loving and just like so lovely to the people around her. That’s what I want her to be to her core.

‘And her biting is just so far removed from who I want her to be. Equally she is two and a half and she is testing boundaries. Also it’s hard because at their nursery their way of disciplining is that they don’t really discipline.

‘They have very much a gentle parenting approach on the accident report form that I got about the bite. They were like we’ve told her that her mouth is for chewing and for eating her food, for biting down on food and nothing else.

‘I think that she knows [in] the environment she’s in she is not going to get told off, there’s not going to be an issue when she does bite. She’s not going to have anything taken off of her, or put on a naughty step – or really be told no.

‘But then is that the right approach? Because clearly whatever is going on now isn’t working because it is the second time that it has happened.

‘So I don’t know, I’m a bit stuck on this one. Probably going to get some comments on… I don’t know what the right thing is to do’. 

The rules of the nursery meant that Molly-Mae wasn’t told who the child was that Bambi had bitten, but she worked out it was a close friend of her child and called her mother to apologise, which she said made her ‘feel much better’.