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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I mostly agree that it’s weird that’s the girl’s mom didn’t at least come over and tell her “we don’t ride other people’s bikes.” It’s weird that she just stood there.

I have to say though, re: attractive nuisances: it did bother me when my daughter was 12-24 months (and not very good yet at remembering rules) when parents would bring strollers full of snacks and toys, fun big wheels-type things, etc, to the playground or library kids area or whatever. I got really annoyed that I brought my daughter somewhere for her to explore and play, but now I had to spend all this time keeping her away from other kids’ things. So I do think the attractive nuisance idea has some merit - but i’m not sure it applies in this situation.[/quote]

You got really annoyed about having to parent? Really?[/quote]

PP. This is admittedly getting away from OP’s example, but yes, I do get annoyed when I bring my daughter to an age-appropriate place where she should theoretically be able to have “free reign,” and instead there is something unnecessary there that is beyond her level of self control and I have to keep her away from it repeatedly. For example, it annoys me when I bring her to the children’s section in the library to play with blocks, read books, etc, but instead there is a kid sitting there with an ipad and an open container of cheerios, and now I have to spend a bunch of time keeping my daughter away from this kid’s ipad and cheerios. In OP’s case, I think she’d be in the wrong if she was for some reason bringing her daughter and her bike to a 2-year-old’s bday party and parking it in the backyard where all the toddlers are and then expecting the other parents to keep their toddlers away from the bike. But it sounds like there was actually a random toddler at an event designed for older kids, and OP parked the bike outside away from the action, so in that case I think the burden was on the 2-year-old’s mom to step in.[/quote]

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