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[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]

Right which is why none of us are suggesting that the 4 year old’s parents press charges or knock he’s lights out, which is how we respond if an unrelated adult assaulted our child.

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Really, you think pressing charging or attacking a child should be an Option?[/quote]

I wrote "none of us are suggesting . . . " which obviously mean I'm not suggesting it.  But if an adult did that to my child, one of those two things would be the outcome.

So, suggesting something like not taking the girl shopping, is recognizing that she's a child.  Even children shouldn't get rewarded for violence.  They should get age appropriate consequences.  [/quote]

You’d never knock someone’s lights out, you wuss.  Hitting people is aLwAyS wRoNG after all (and you’re afraid of your own shadow).[/quote]

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