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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think there's a different standard between "behavior I don't allow for my child" and "behavior I correct someone else's child for" Age appropriate has very little to do with it, except for the fact that if an 8 year old were taking the toys, I could ask them not to. But, if they persisted, I'm still not going to get into a tug of war over the box.

Conversely, it may be age appropriate for a two year old to pull up flowers, but if a behavior crosses from annoying to destructive or dangerous, then you can correct someone else's kid. I guess the elevator button pushing is borderline. But, honestly, I'm not going to make a scene about someone else's kid doing that (Unless, I don't know, we were in a hospital or something where the delay could be dangerous). And, hopefully, in as small a space as an elevator, a small childs parents would be right there to notice.[/quote]

This is really it.  No one in the other thread was arguing that it was okay for the two-year-old to take something away from the baby.  They were arguing that the OP was wrong to get in a tug-of-war with a toddler over the toys.  They were also arguing that a two-year-old who takes a toy is not necessarily an "entitled brat," because such behavior is developmentally appropriate and it can take a lot of repetition to teach a kid that age things like sharing, etc.

I would not allow my kid to take a toy from another kid.  I would not allow her to pick flowers in a public park.  If a kid took a toy from my kid, I wouldn't get in a physical altercation with that kid to get it back.  If another kid was picking flowers in a public park, I would tell them to stop, but I wouldn't get in a physical altercation in order to stop them.  You can be right in principle, but wrong in execution.  [/quote]

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