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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]

Op here and this is a totally unfair analogy. I wasn’t taking my child to a toddler activity, I was taking her to her an activity for her and other 7-10yr olds. Most parents drop-off, but some stay (along with their younger children).  But it’s not a toddler playground or activity.  They also have cubbies outside the activity where kids can also keep their things like clothes, shoes, water bottles, during the activity. It’s expected (from my perspective) that parents with young children aren’t just allowing their toddlers to go grabbing everyone else’s things just because they are there. I wouldn’t be surprised if that particular 2yo I encountered went over to the cubbies to take a drink from one of those water bottles or started pulling out the clothes and shoes.

The child was an anomaly. Most toddlers, when a stranger asks them to stop doing something, they listen. And most parents would have stepped in if they saw their child climbing on someone else’s bike.

The problem for me was the parent. Even if I give her the benefit of the doubt that maybe she wasn’t in earshot when I told her daughter six times to get off the bike, she still shouldn’t have been just watching as her daughter attempted to ride the thing. It was heavy, even for my much older child. And then she says “oh do you not want her on the bike?” I clearly said no.[/quote]

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