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I don’t see anything wrong here. It’s not your fault you are not perfect, just try to be kind or rather try not being a cunt like those women. You reacted authentically, and that’s alright and a teaching moment for your daughter.
If you talk to your daughter about what went down and how, in hindsight, you wished you reacted differently, I would say you have this covered.
For myself, I often emphasize to my kids (2 and 6) after such situations that I wished I was more level headed and thoughtful in the heat of the moment, and that I could have reacted this or that way depending on what went down. I don’t want my kids to see me as perfect.
Let me tell you something, I am a millennial born to an asian religious family. Growing up, my mother ALWAYS told me not to get into arguments and just to leave to avoid confrontations. Oh boy, now that I am 38, I still have a problem with confrontations, I panic and would run away. I always ended up getting bullied because of this. I am telling you, there was nothing wrong with what you did, you actually showed your daughter that you asked nicely 2x and when the other person became rude, you were not going to tolerate it. That is what I am trying to teach my son, that running away is not always the answer. You have to defend yourself when being nice didn't work the first time.