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OP here. What are the playground rules? I geniunely want to know, because I can't figure out the justification for accusing a 23 MONTH OLD of "stealing" a random toy at the playground that no one else was playing with, then saying he deserved to be yelled at because he should've had the knowledge and foresight to check and make sure it was okay with the other kids??
 
What is WRONG with you people? [/quote]

You're missing the point (and getting hysterical).

Kids do things that are developmentally appropriate.  If a toddler takes a random toy from by someone's feet, that's developmentally appropriate.  If a 4 year old yells "no!" at that child, that's developmentally appropriate.  In the 4 year old's mind, she was saying, "these are my toys, don't take them."  She didn't touch him.  Touching/hitting is always grounds for parental intervention.  Is that clearer? [/quote]

OP here. I guess you missed the post 3 pages ago when I said that both kids were behaving developmentally appropriate. My gripe is not with the 4-year old. My gripe is with the father who did nothing to correct the 4-year old.[/quote]

I don't think you're getting it. The point is that you and the other father differ as to what is correctable behavior. He may think anything short of violence is not correctable. You have much more inscrutable criteria. (Taking a toy = not correctable, taking a toy back and yelling = correctable). The point is that while some of us PPs might have intervened where this father did not, he's not so far out there that you should be outraged (even you think some "bad" age-appropriate behaviors are not worthy of correction).[/quote]

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