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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a PP. What if OP had written this instead:

"On the way to my daughter's toddler storytime class at the library, we stopped at the grocery store to buy some grapes. I brought the open bag of grapes into the class and put them on a low shelf at the back of the classroom. I would've put them higher up, but here was no other shelf, so I had to put them on this low shelf. A 2-year-old walked up and tried to take a grape. I told her she shouldn't take them because she could choke, but she just said 'I want a grape!' I caught her mom's eye, and she said 'Oh, do you not want her to eat the grapes?' And I said 'No, I didn't bring the grapes for sharing, and plus she could choke on them.' After that, I sat down with my daughter on the other side of the room, so I wasn't able to guard the grapes myself. All through the class, kids kept going up to the grapes and even taking some, and some of their parents didn't even try to stop them."

What would you guys say in that situation? I would say that it's weird if the other parents didn't say something like "hey we don't take other people's food," but I mostly think it's OP's fault for bringing a bag of grapes to a room full of toddlers for her own convenience, and then putting the burden on other parents to keep their kids away from the grapes.[/quote]

The two are not analogous situations. Bringing grapes into storytine would be the same as bringing a bike inside the lesson space and distracting all the kids with it.

A similar situation to the bike being appropriately used for transportation and parked outside would be if a mom had groceries in her car. She parked outside the activity and dropped off her daughter, then opened the trunk to rearrange a grocery bag that had tipped over. An unsupervised 2 year old tries to climb in the car and demands some grapes. You’re saying it would be the mom’s fault for opening the trunk and creating a temptation for the kid.

Do you realize how crazy that is? You’re basically saying that people have to give up legitimate means of transportation so as to not tempt random kids into doing something destructive...[/quote]

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