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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 7 year old was just at my niece's birthday party with a bunch of 3 year olds and handled himself more maturely.  Did some 3 year olds bother him and cross his boundaries?  Absolutely.  He said no and then asked for a break.

Did none of the people talking about kids touching stuff not have younger siblings?  I'm about 8 years older than my youngest sibling and yes, she got into stuff and no, I wasn't allowed to smack her. [/quote]
If you read the OP‘s update, you’d see that the teenager tried by moving her things and going to a different room. The five year followed. The parent of the five-year-old should have intervened and redirected her child to something else instead of assuming a teenager is going to babysit for free.[/quote]

The teen also could have talked to OP or her own parent.  Like my 7 year old talked to me.

Again, not hard to avoid hitting a kid. [/quote]

The 15 year old is ALSO a kid, dummy.[/quote]

My kid's babysitter is 15.  You guys infantilizing teenagers are doing them no favors.[/quote]

Children can be babysitters. Treating children like children isn’t infantilizing. This is a weird response considering how helicoptery parents are on here towards their adult kids.[/quote]

2 year olds in daycare get told "no, we don't hit".  Acting like a 15 year old is somehow less savvy (and gets presents for hitting kids) is treating a kid appropriately?[/quote]

A 15 year old should know not to hit. But, expecting them to act like an adult and calling them crap is unacceptable.[/quote]

Where does it say they expected the 15 year old to act like an adult.  SIL yelled at the boyfriend who demonstrated SIL was right by buying his child gifts.  He literally rewarded his daughter smacking a preschooler.  He's a shit parent, SIL is right.  [/quote]

People on this thread did. Teens make mistakes.[/quote]
Stubbing your toe is a mistake. Deliberately hitting a preschooler is a very bad choice. [/quote]

My brother in law is a teacher and he had a parent go "he just made a mistake" when her son literally set another kid's hair on fire.[/quote]

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