At the playground, today...

[Anonymous]

If you want to allow your 1yo to climb UP the slide without having someone else wnat to come down it then get your own damn slide.

[Anonymous]

I don't understand the insistence of using playground equipment thr "right" way. It's a playground, a safe place for kids to explore.

However, it's clear the 3yo old was being a bit of a bully to the smaller 1yo. I think it's pretty normal behavior, and it sounds like the OP did the right thing by taking her kid to the swing. The grandma seemed aloof, but she could have just been tired of correcting his behavior. He sounds like a handful.

[Anonymous]

"With rage"? Really, the 3yo was full of RAGE? Overreact much?

Good grief.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

So if you see a kid climbing up a slide, before you immediately condemn, try to think, just maybe, his mom is letting him do it for a good reason.

Well, is he doing this and prohibiting all the other kids from coming down? If so, I don't care if he's low-tone, that's no excuse. I have a low-tone / PT kid, so don't try to give me the walk a mile in my shoes/ my life is hard / SN momspeech.

If there are no other kids in sight, knock yourself out going up that slide.

You have some serious anger issues that you might want to address, for the sake of your "low-tone/PT kid". If you had read the whole post, you would've seen that I allow it when there aren't other kids wanting to go down.

Peace to you, dear.

[Anonymous]

Almost every one of you posting is here is incredibly rude.

The person who has the right of way, going up or down, no matter what age, is the person who is there first. The three year old should have stuck to a free slide, or WAITED HER TURN. PATIENTLY. AND BEEN KIND TO THE YOUNGER CHILD.

And kicking someone intentionally is condoned because it's on the playground slide?

Good lord, what on earth are you people teaching your children??? Now I understand why so many adults int his area are so sour and rude -- bad home training.

At the park I go to, in DC, when one child is on the slide, going up or down, other children are instructed by their parents/caretakers to wait until the child on the slide is done. Generally if a child is going up the slide the parent will move the child, but no one allows their child to purposely attack another child feet first.

Please, previous posters, send a list of where your children play, so I know never to bring my DD there!

Mom of a 2-yr old

[Anonymous]

OP, you should not have touched someone else's child at all. You should have moved your own. Good thing Grandma was so tolerant.

[Anonymous]

Raise your hand if you are secretly chuckling to yourself about the bitch slap OP will be getting when her precious 1 year old turns 3!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Almost every one of you posting is here is incredibly rude.

Please, previous posters, send a list of where your children play, so I know never to bring my DD there!

Mom of a 2-yr old

I love it. A poster calling everybody else rude and then asking to know where the posters hang out so that she knows "never to bring my DD there!"

Why don't you tell us where you go b/c I'm guessing wanting to avoid you and your precious little cupcake may be a 2 way street.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, you should not have touched someone else's child at all. You should have moved your own. Good thing Grandma was so tolerant.

I didn't touch her. She came down and kicked me.

[Anonymous]

If you didn't touch her, she would have come all the way down the slide. Obviously, you had to touch her; you need to learn to treat other people's children with respect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you didn't touch her, she would have come all the way down the slide. Obviously, you had to touch her; you need to learn to treat other people's children with respect.

-I put my child on the empty slide. There were 3 of them and 2 children.

-The brat came to the slide where my child was and did it on purpose.

-When I saw her coming down I put my arm across the slide.

-She kept coming and kicked me on purpose. Who needs to learn respect here?

ps. the lesser of my concern is with this crotch drop. The biggest problem is the grandmother ignoring the child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. There was a total of 3 slides and 2 children when this happened.

I wouldn't change a thing.

What a brat!

Who? You or the kid?

[Anonymous]

Climbing up the slide is dangerous, that is how my brother lost both of his front baby teeth when he was 3.

[Anonymous]

I agree wholeheartedly with 14:48. I'm shocked that so many disagree with this.

Anonymous wrote: no one allows their child to purposely attack another child feet first.

[Anonymous]

what is a crotch drop??