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[quote=Anonymous]I agree with PP--while I generally encourage my kids to share their toys at a public place, there are times where I don't encourage i.e. safety/liability reasons like the scooter.

For example, I was at the pool yesterday with my 3yo and 5yo.  5yo is a pretty good swimmer so he can go out a bit deeper than the 3yo, who wants to follow his brother.  The only way I could keep my 3yo from walking further out into the pool was to entertain him by throwing dive sticks onto the steps and let him pick them up without having to go underwater.  Another kid who was about 6 or 7 started to go underwater to get the sticks and I told him, "no, please don't do that, these are for him".  If it had been my other son, I would have thrown the sticks out to both of them and had them play together but I really needed to keep my younger son in the shallow area and that was the only thing that was working.  I actually thought it was rude of the kid to just go under and pick them up without even asking if it was ok but he's a kid so whatever.

The snack issue does irritate me...people need to bring snacks for their kids when going out in public for more than a few hours.  I always pack extra snacks so that my kids have a choice in what they want to eat but it really does irritate me when we are at the park or the pool and a kid says "I'm hungry" and looks at my backpack with snacks in it.  Sometimes I pack snacks specifically for ME and frankly, I don't want to share.  And I don't want to have to spend $5 at the snack bar later because I ran out of snacks by giving them away.  OK, rant over.

Point is, it's nice to share when sharing is appropriate but it's not always appropriate and should never be expected. Sometimes you just want to play with your toys with your kids and that's fine too.  Move on. [/quote]

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