If you saw a kid drinking water from a splash pad…

[Anonymous]

Telling your child to not guzzle splash pad water isn’t “correcting them about dumb stuff” sheesh. What do you guys teach your kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m sure the parents know their kid does this, so I wouldn’t say anything. And people have different levels of comfort when it comes to letting their kids do things, so other parents may not care as much or at all if their kid does it.

+1 I wouldn't say anything unless I knew the parents & was friends with them, like we are all looking after our kids together on the outing.

This isn't what I'd put in the category of dangerous.

[Anonymous]

I might make an "ewww" face and kindly, conversationally say to the kid, "I don't think that water is intended for drinking. It might be kind of dirty." But I'm not going to go track down their adult and urgently report what the kid is doing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t be offended by you saying something to me or to my kid, and I’d try to redirect my kid but unfortunately, kids are gonna kid. They do all kinds of mildly gross stuff that adults wouldn’t do.

This, but I’d be thinking “thanks for trying to help.” I wouldn’t be annoyed that you were interfering.

[Anonymous]

The average swimming pool has a bathtub size volume of pee. Chorine or bromine break it down, but still gross.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I gave up on keeping my kids from drinking splash pad water loooong ago. This has never caused any digestive mishaps.

If you really want to walk up to me and tell me, I’ll roll my eyes internally, but whatever. You’re trying to help I get that.

Do NOT go up to my kid and tell them not to do something that has no impact on you or your family and is not objectively very dangerous. Real dangerous, not busybody park mom dangerous. If he’s about to fall off a cliff or stick a penny in a light socket or hit your kid, okay. Drinking some splash pad water? No.

Ewww WTF?

I wonder what else you’ve given up on - like having a rodent-free home?

[Anonymous]

Do you have one kid, OP?

[Anonymous]

This thread has made me realize that other parents are way too sensitive and defensive about the possibility of being judged. I can’t imagine being annoyed if someone told me my kid was drinking the splash pad water! Thanks for saving me from cleaning up diarrhea! Funny thing is that so many people on this forum are obsessed with how to make their kid resilient but don’t seem to know how to apply it to themselves.

[Anonymous]

PP here— should have said “many” parents, not other parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They all drink water from the splash pad, from the pool, etc. Life goes on.

No one is interested in a busybody critiquing a child that's just being allowed to play unless there is a real safety issue.

No they all don’t. Maybe some of the slower kids but it’s not typical.