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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 7 year old was just at my niece's birthday party with a bunch of 3 year olds and handled himself more maturely.  Did some 3 year olds bother him and cross his boundaries?  Absolutely.  He said no and then asked for a break.

Did none of the people talking about kids touching stuff not have younger siblings?  I'm about 8 years older than my youngest sibling and yes, she got into stuff and no, I wasn't allowed to smack her. [/quote]
If you read the OP‘s update, you’d see that the teenager tried by moving her things and going to a different room. The five year followed. The parent of the five-year-old should have intervened and redirected her child to something else instead of assuming a teenager is going to babysit for free.[/quote]

The OP was in the room.  The teenager could have asked the preschooler to leave, asked the OP for help, or possibly moved to a room with a door (it's unclear to me where this happened).  Hitting isn't an option for 2 year olds in my family.  The idea that somehow at 15 it should be suddenly allowed again is bizarre.  [/quote]

OP's update also said the 5 year old was successfully redirected then came back and the 15 year old hit the kid a few minutes later.  This wasn't going on for very long at all.

Don't get me wrong threatening a teenager also isn't a good look.  My guess is also this 15 year old was taught to hit by being hit herself as a kid.  So I absolutely side eye the adults here who are ultimately responsible.

But hitting kids just teaches them to hit others.[/quote]

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