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Also, when I see my DD take something out of another child's hand, [b]I will immediately force her to give it back to the other child and wait her turn. [/b] When Amy's DD grabs something from my DD -- which is constantly -- Amy will plead and cajole her DD to give it back, but if her DD chooses not to give it up, she keeps it.  I always try to redirect my DD, but at some point I start to feel bad not sticking up for her. One time this happened while Amy was out of the room, and I took the thing out of Amy's DD's hand, exactly as I would do for my DD, and Amy's DD started screaming and took another toy and threw it hard at my DD's head.  It missed, fortunately.  Amy came in as her DD was throwing the car and she said something along the lines of, sweetie, that's not nice.  And that was it.  If my kid had done that she would be in time-out or the playdate would end.                
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OP, I don't know whether you'll try to salvage this friendship or not, but

YOU ABSOLUTELY SHOULD NOT BE DOING THIS.

At 3, you need to butt out and let the children work out who is playing with what toy when. You can remind them to share and set up playdates with share-able toys (blocks, trains, cars, tea set, kitchen set, etc), but you should NOT, at age 3, be hovering and playing toy referee.

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