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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d of course intervene on a safety issue.

I hate it when kids who aren’t mine ask me to swing them, watch them do something, help them on monkey bars, etc., when I can see their own parent/caregiver sitting around scrolling on the phone. I’ll politely pay attention to them for a minute and then explain I need to attend to my own kids. 
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+1 I hate it too. Those kids are so annoying and starved for attention![/quote]

+2. Same and I’m a nanny.  I find it truly loathsome that negligent parents consider themselves “free range” and anti-helicopter parents when it’s strangers who are forced to watch and encourage their children.  [/quote]

No one wants you helicoptering around their children. Keep your eyes on your own paper.[/quote]

LOL. Found the lazy parent![/quote]

NP who agrees with PP. Leave my kid alone. He is capable and independent mainly because I don't "help" aka do everything for him, unless necessary or he asks. He has plenty of hands on 1:1 interaction at home and at his expensive ass private montessori daycare. At the park he runs free and I stand back and let him. Don't do us any "favors", especially when you are judging the whole time. [/quote]

I’m one of the PPs. This isn’t the situation I’m talking about. Hell no I’m not approaching your “capable and independent” child and offering my help!  I want your kid to leave me alone. But your kid sees me engaged with my kid. Sees me making an effort. Playing hide and seek. Going down the slide. Pushing my kid on the swing.  Whatever.

It’s your kid, getting no engagement from you, that seeks ME out because you can’t be bothered.

If you’re at a park and your kid wants to swing but doesn’t know how, that’s your job. 
If you’re at a park and your kid wants to play hide and seek, get off your phone and play with your damn kid.

And if you don’t want to, fine - but tell your attention starved kid to leave the other parents/caregivers alone. [/quote]

Kids are at a park to play with kids, not parents.  Redirect to your child and get out of the way for hide-and-seek.[/quote]

When I take my kids to a park, I’m prepared to engage with them. If they make friends and play with those friends, great. But no, I didn’t bring my child to the park to entertain your kid. Why would I redirect my kid, who just wants to play with her mama?  Parents can’t engage their children at parks?

I’m talking about specific situations - which sadly occur often - when a kid will approach me because they see me being attentive with my own kids. The kid might ask me to push them on the swing. Or watch them do a trick. Or want me to play with them. I’d be pretty embarrassed if my kids thought they needed to seek a stranger out for attention or help use the equipment. [/quote]

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