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Anonymous wrote:Can we stop it with the "kids and parents here are SO different than anywhere else" meme? It's inaccurate and tiresome.

There are obnoxious kids and parents EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD, people.

I think it’s a “meme” for a reason though. Lots of people in this area are selfish and socially clueless, so their kids are bound to be. Are there other selfish and socially clueless people in other parts of the country? Sure, but there sure are a lot in this area.

There are also a lot of neurotic people in this area.

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Anonymous wrote:Can we stop it with the "kids and parents here are SO different than anywhere else" meme? It's inaccurate and tiresome.

There are obnoxious kids and parents EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD, people.

I think it’s a “meme” for a reason though. Lots of people in this area are selfish and socially clueless, so their kids are bound to be. Are there other selfish and socially clueless people in other parts of the country? Sure, but there sure are a lot in this area.

Anonymous wrote:Can we stop it with the "kids and parents here are SO different than anywhere else" meme? It's inaccurate and tiresome.

There are obnoxious kids and parents EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD, people.

Anonymous wrote:I will freely admit that I do not usually intervene when my kid commits a routine playground faux-pas like climbing the slide. You know why? I am tired and it is not a huge deal at the end of the day. With my 2yo, I intervene because it is usually a safety issue. With a 5yo, though? No. They can figure it out themselves.

I completely realize this is selfish and that most of you probably find it extremely annoying. I find the people who are constantly intervening in the social dynamics of elementary-school-aged kids annoying as well.

Anonymous wrote:I will freely admit that I do not usually intervene when my kid commits a routine playground faux-pas like climbing the slide. You know why? I am tired and it is not a huge deal at the end of the day. With my 2yo, I intervene because it is usually a safety issue. With a 5yo, though? No. They can figure it out themselves.

I completely realize this is selfish and that most of you probably find it extremely annoying. I find the people who are constantly intervening in the social dynamics of elementary-school-aged kids annoying as well.

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Anonymous wrote: I say this in the nicest possible way, stop complaining about your friends and talk to them. Or sneak in by example another way to handle the situation. As far as other parents playground, we’re all weirdos and annoy other parents in someway. Just move to another part and teach your kid resiliency. Yeah they should be a little more specific with their kid but if they’re not you always have legs to move to another area

This doesn’t always work. I’ve had kids follow us all over the playground. One recently was in our faces begging us to come see the dish he cooked in the sandbox. I said “Sure, but we are going to have a snack first.” (My 2 year old was eating). He kept running over and whining and trying to touch my kid. Mom was in the sandbox and was SUPERPROUD of her kid. Even when we joined them and her kid started scooping sand up and trying to put it in my 2 year old’s mouth to taste, she didn’t intervene. I never touch another person’s kid or pull toys out of their hands, but I will say I’ve been tempted when yet another kid runs over and grabs something my kid is playing with. I will say it seems kind of common in this area. We’ve been elsewhere in the country to visit family and on other trips and parents and children seem different.

You know that's not a normal interaction, PP.

Stuff like that happens a lot. I agree that it shouldn’t be normal.

Some parents are more hands off than others. That doesn’t sound like a normal interaction. It also sounds like you want to live somewhere else. We don’t notice things like that happening often. I also had a heightened awareness of other peoples children’s behavior when my child was that young. It’s a little iffy having a two-year-old at a playground no matter who’s there.

I don’t think I have a heightened awareness of other people’s kids. I’m talking about kids kicking mine in the head with no reaction from the parents. Kids throwing sand in the sandbox all over other kids’ faces including my kid’s and the aggressor’s parent ignoring. A grandma watching her kid push mine off a car so he could play with it (when there were 4 other cars around) and her doing nothing but slowing saying, “Was that boy playing with it?” There’s nowhere else I’ve been where this stuff routinely happens without even an acknowledgment from the parents.

I have two young kids and have lived in this area their entire childhoods. I've never seen anything like what you are describing, ever. What neighborhood is this?

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Anonymous wrote: I say this in the nicest possible way, stop complaining about your friends and talk to them. Or sneak in by example another way to handle the situation. As far as other parents playground, we’re all weirdos and annoy other parents in someway. Just move to another part and teach your kid resiliency. Yeah they should be a little more specific with their kid but if they’re not you always have legs to move to another area

This doesn’t always work. I’ve had kids follow us all over the playground. One recently was in our faces begging us to come see the dish he cooked in the sandbox. I said “Sure, but we are going to have a snack first.” (My 2 year old was eating). He kept running over and whining and trying to touch my kid. Mom was in the sandbox and was SUPERPROUD of her kid. Even when we joined them and her kid started scooping sand up and trying to put it in my 2 year old’s mouth to taste, she didn’t intervene. I never touch another person’s kid or pull toys out of their hands, but I will say I’ve been tempted when yet another kid runs over and grabs something my kid is playing with. I will say it seems kind of common in this area. We’ve been elsewhere in the country to visit family and on other trips and parents and children seem different.

You know that's not a normal interaction, PP.

Stuff like that happens a lot. I agree that it shouldn’t be normal.

Some parents are more hands off than others. That doesn’t sound like a normal interaction. It also sounds like you want to live somewhere else. We don’t notice things like that happening often. I also had a heightened awareness of other peoples children’s behavior when my child was that young. It’s a little iffy having a two-year-old at a playground no matter who’s there.

I don’t think I have a heightened awareness of other people’s kids. I’m talking about kids kicking mine in the head with no reaction from the parents. Kids throwing sand in the sandbox all over other kids’ faces including my kid’s and the aggressor’s parent ignoring. A grandma watching her kid push mine off a car so he could play with it (when there were 4 other cars around) and her doing nothing but slowing saying, “Was that boy playing with it?” There’s nowhere else I’ve been where this stuff routinely happens without even an acknowledgment from the parents.

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Anonymous wrote: I say this in the nicest possible way, stop complaining about your friends and talk to them. Or sneak in by example another way to handle the situation. As far as other parents playground, we’re all weirdos and annoy other parents in someway. Just move to another part and teach your kid resiliency. Yeah they should be a little more specific with their kid but if they’re not you always have legs to move to another area

This doesn’t always work. I’ve had kids follow us all over the playground. One recently was in our faces begging us to come see the dish he cooked in the sandbox. I said “Sure, but we are going to have a snack first.” (My 2 year old was eating). He kept running over and whining and trying to touch my kid. Mom was in the sandbox and was SUPERPROUD of her kid. Even when we joined them and her kid started scooping sand up and trying to put it in my 2 year old’s mouth to taste, she didn’t intervene. I never touch another person’s kid or pull toys out of their hands, but I will say I’ve been tempted when yet another kid runs over and grabs something my kid is playing with. I will say it seems kind of common in this area. We’ve been elsewhere in the country to visit family and on other trips and parents and children seem different.

You know that's not a normal interaction, PP.

Stuff like that happens a lot. I agree that it shouldn’t be normal.

Some parents are more hands off than others. That doesn’t sound like a normal interaction. It also sounds like you want to live somewhere else. We don’t notice things like that happening often. I also had a heightened awareness of other peoples children’s behavior when my child was that young. It’s a little iffy having a two-year-old at a playground no matter who’s there.

I don’t think I have a heightened awareness of other people’s kids. I’m talking about kids kicking mine in the head with no reaction from the parents. Kids throwing sand in the sandbox all over other kids’ faces including my kid’s and the aggressor’s parent ignoring. A grandma watching her kid push mine off a car so he could play with it (when there were 4 other cars around) and her doing nothing but slowing saying, “Was that boy playing with it?” There’s nowhere else I’ve been where this stuff routinely happens without even an acknowledgment from the parents.

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Anonymous wrote: I say this in the nicest possible way, stop complaining about your friends and talk to them. Or sneak in by example another way to handle the situation. As far as other parents playground, we’re all weirdos and annoy other parents in someway. Just move to another part and teach your kid resiliency. Yeah they should be a little more specific with their kid but if they’re not you always have legs to move to another area

This doesn’t always work. I’ve had kids follow us all over the playground. One recently was in our faces begging us to come see the dish he cooked in the sandbox. I said “Sure, but we are going to have a snack first.” (My 2 year old was eating). He kept running over and whining and trying to touch my kid. Mom was in the sandbox and was SUPERPROUD of her kid. Even when we joined them and her kid started scooping sand up and trying to put it in my 2 year old’s mouth to taste, she didn’t intervene. I never touch another person’s kid or pull toys out of their hands, but I will say I’ve been tempted when yet another kid runs over and grabs something my kid is playing with. I will say it seems kind of common in this area. We’ve been elsewhere in the country to visit family and on other trips and parents and children seem different.

You know that's not a normal interaction, PP.

Stuff like that happens a lot. I agree that it shouldn’t be normal.

Some parents are more hands off than others. That doesn’t sound like a normal interaction. It also sounds like you want to live somewhere else. We don’t notice things like that happening often. I also had a heightened awareness of other peoples children’s behavior when my child was that young. It’s a little iffy having a two-year-old at a playground no matter who’s there.

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Anonymous wrote: I say this in the nicest possible way, stop complaining about your friends and talk to them. Or sneak in by example another way to handle the situation. As far as other parents playground, we’re all weirdos and annoy other parents in someway. Just move to another part and teach your kid resiliency. Yeah they should be a little more specific with their kid but if they’re not you always have legs to move to another area

This doesn’t always work. I’ve had kids follow us all over the playground. One recently was in our faces begging us to come see the dish he cooked in the sandbox. I said “Sure, but we are going to have a snack first.” (My 2 year old was eating). He kept running over and whining and trying to touch my kid. Mom was in the sandbox and was SUPERPROUD of her kid. Even when we joined them and her kid started scooping sand up and trying to put it in my 2 year old’s mouth to taste, she didn’t intervene. I never touch another person’s kid or pull toys out of their hands, but I will say I’ve been tempted when yet another kid runs over and grabs something my kid is playing with. I will say it seems kind of common in this area. We’ve been elsewhere in the country to visit family and on other trips and parents and children seem different.

You know that's not a normal interaction, PP.

Stuff like that happens a lot. I agree that it shouldn’t be normal.

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Anonymous wrote: I say this in the nicest possible way, stop complaining about your friends and talk to them. Or sneak in by example another way to handle the situation. As far as other parents playground, we’re all weirdos and annoy other parents in someway. Just move to another part and teach your kid resiliency. Yeah they should be a little more specific with their kid but if they’re not you always have legs to move to another area

This doesn’t always work. I’ve had kids follow us all over the playground. One recently was in our faces begging us to come see the dish he cooked in the sandbox. I said “Sure, but we are going to have a snack first.” (My 2 year old was eating). He kept running over and whining and trying to touch my kid. Mom was in the sandbox and was SUPERPROUD of her kid. Even when we joined them and her kid started scooping sand up and trying to put it in my 2 year old’s mouth to taste, she didn’t intervene. I never touch another person’s kid or pull toys out of their hands, but I will say I’ve been tempted when yet another kid runs over and grabs something my kid is playing with. I will say it seems kind of common in this area. We’ve been elsewhere in the country to visit family and on other trips and parents and children seem different.

You know that's not a normal interaction, PP.

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Anonymous wrote: I say this in the nicest possible way, stop complaining about your friends and talk to them. Or sneak in by example another way to handle the situation. As far as other parents playground, we’re all weirdos and annoy other parents in someway. Just move to another part and teach your kid resiliency. Yeah they should be a little more specific with their kid but if they’re not you always have legs to move to another area

This doesn’t always work. I’ve had kids follow us all over the playground. One recently was in our faces begging us to come see the dish he cooked in the sandbox. I said “Sure, but we are going to have a snack first.” (My 2 year old was eating). He kept running over and whining and trying to touch my kid. Mom was in the sandbox and was SUPERPROUD of her kid. Even when we joined them and her kid started scooping sand up and trying to put it in my 2 year old’s mouth to taste, she didn’t intervene. I never touch another person’s kid or pull toys out of their hands, but I will say I’ve been tempted when yet another kid runs over and grabs something my kid is playing with. I will say it seems kind of common in this area. We’ve been elsewhere in the country to visit family and on other trips and parents and children seem different.