Anonymous wrote:They all drink water from the splash pad, from the pool, etc. Life goes on.
No one is interested in a busybody critiquing a child that's just being allowed to play unless there is a real safety issue.
Anonymous wrote:I gave up on keeping my kids from drinking splash pad water loooong ago. This has never caused any digestive mishaps.
If you really want to walk up to me and tell me, I’ll roll my eyes internally, but whatever. You’re trying to help I get that.
Do NOT go up to my kid and tell them not to do something that has no impact on you or your family and is not objectively very dangerous. Real dangerous, not busybody park mom dangerous. If he’s about to fall off a cliff or stick a penny in a light socket or hit your kid, okay. Drinking some splash pad water? No.
Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t be offended by you saying something to me or to my kid, and I’d try to redirect my kid but unfortunately, kids are gonna kid. They do all kinds of mildly gross stuff that adults wouldn’t do.
Anonymous wrote:I’m sure the parents know their kid does this, so I wouldn’t say anything. And people have different levels of comfort when it comes to letting their kids do things, so other parents may not care as much or at all if their kid does it.