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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While I agree you have to take better care of your things and put things out of reach of little children, it seems to me it is also the toddler's parents. I have a toddler (almost 2y) and if she was touching other's people stuff I would take it away from her, give it back or put it back and apologize. And every time she went back for it I would say "no" and remove her if posible. If it was friend's things I old ask them to put it out of reach, but ultimately, the responsibility to make sure my child didn't touch other's belongings it's mine. That is not hypothetical - intuitions like that have happened many times in the past year.

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I get this, and I used to do the same, but it goes both ways.  It would get increasingly frustrating when my friends would leave temptations within my child's reach and continue to watch me struggle to constantly get him to keep his hands off.  At some point, if my friend does nothing to remove her purse or bag or whatever, I take that to mean that she doesn't care that my son is pulling her things out and I let him be.  I'll take the item away and say "no" if, after I do it once or twice, you remove your bag from his reach.  Otherwise, it's fair game.  Now he's 5 and it's a whole other ballgame.  It's my (and his) responsibility to keep his hands off other people's property.  But when he was a toddler, I expected my friends to protect their property as much as I did.

And, OP, why was your DH doing all the kid-watching?  Where were you and the toddler's parents through all this?[/quote]

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