Anonymous wrote:We have a neighbor who is about 11 years old and ever since she was six or seven will knock on the doors in the neighborhood saying she’s hungry, parents don’t give her snacks, etc. I’ll just say we know for a fact this is not true. Some children unfortunately looking for attention in the wrong ways.

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Anonymous wrote:I think in the grand scheme of the world, not having water at a playground is really no big deal.

You know nothing of this mom.

My mom is super annoying about water and staying hydrated. She has to drink water multiple times per hour and constantly talks about water. My kids will drink water and be dying of thirst the next hour. My kids have forgotten to take water to soccer practice and lived.

People get thirsty. Being thirsty for an hour or two is not the end of the world.

My kids would come home starving and thirsty from school daily. They eat lunch at school at 12 and pretty sure they have snack time at 2. My kids are starving at 11:30 even though they are breakfast at 7:30 and snacked at 9 and 10am.

The kid will live.

Thank you. The hand wringing over this kid's momentary experience of thirst is really something.

Anonymous wrote:I think in the grand scheme of the world, not having water at a playground is really no big deal.

You know nothing of this mom.

My mom is super annoying about water and staying hydrated. She has to drink water multiple times per hour and constantly talks about water. My kids will drink water and be dying of thirst the next hour. My kids have forgotten to take water to soccer practice and lived.

People get thirsty. Being thirsty for an hour or two is not the end of the world.

My kids would come home starving and thirsty from school daily. They eat lunch at school at 12 and pretty sure they have snack time at 2. My kids are starving at 11:30 even though they are breakfast at 7:30 and snacked at 9 and 10am.

The kid will live.

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Anonymous wrote:This is so sad. I would have offered to the mom to give her my water bottle.

During coronavirus I wouldn't if I was already drinking out of it. The mom said they could go home if the kid really wanted water - so the kid could have said let's go, I guess.

From the OP:

"what are you doing? I don't have water, if you want water we have to go home".

I think this was the mother’s outing with her friend and they chose to power walk where there was a playground nearby so the kid would have something to do. It sounds to me like mom was saying “We’d have to leave to get you water, so you’re just going to have to wait until friend and I are done.”

What kind of idiot goes power walking without bringing a water bottle?

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Anonymous wrote:This is so sad. I would have offered to the mom to give her my water bottle.

During coronavirus I wouldn't if I was already drinking out of it. The mom said they could go home if the kid really wanted water - so the kid could have said let's go, I guess.

From the OP:

"what are you doing? I don't have water, if you want water we have to go home".

I think this was the mother’s outing with her friend and they chose to power walk where there was a playground nearby so the kid would have something to do. It sounds to me like mom was saying “We’d have to leave to get you water, so you’re just going to have to wait until friend and I are done.”

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Anonymous wrote:If there was a way to share water safely- like extra bottle or a cup, yes. But I’d also be more vocal with mom. I’m not above being embarrassing if you’re ignoring your kids needs. The mom should have thought ahead or cut her friend time short to attend to her child. If I were the power walking friend I’d have spoken up as well. Not in a rude way, but directly enough to bust through her preoccupation with her own experience instead of her child’s actual need. Clearly that kid gets blown off often.

+1

That mom is terrible. It was hot today!

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Anonymous wrote:This is so sad. I would have offered to the mom to give her my water bottle.

No need to be dramatic. Kids don’t need every want fulfilled immediately.

Anonymous wrote:No, but would have told her about a water fountain if there was one close. Hopefully her mother will learn to bring water.

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Anonymous wrote:This is so sad. I would have offered to the mom to give her my water bottle.

During coronavirus I wouldn't if I was already drinking out of it. The mom said they could go home if the kid really wanted water - so the kid could have said let's go, I guess.

Anonymous wrote:This is so sad. I would have offered to the mom to give her my water bottle.

Anonymous wrote:Ugh, just wanted to agree that I'd be annoyed with that mom. It wouldn't even bother me that her mom forgot to bring her water -- I am not a perfect person and I've forgotten stuff for my kid lots of times. But I don't ignore my child at the playground. Not saying you have to spend every second meeting their every need. But if my kid was bugging other people enough to where they said something to me, I'm not just going to laugh about it and wander off. It's rude to the kid but it's also rude to everyone else at the playground.

Anyway, that mom put you in an awkward situation. While I would love to say "Oh yes, of course I would give a thirsty child water," I have lived in a city for 20 years and no there are way too many ways for that situation to go wrong and unless I was worried for the child's overall safety, I would simply say we didn't have any to share. Sucks but there is no better option.