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[quote=Anonymous]I am a nanny for two young school-aged children in California. They are very fond of going to the playground by their school and we visit a couple times a week. They love it, but there are other children who we see there time and time again who are rough, rude, nasty mouthed and completely disregard the rules of the playground (running up the slide and such).

There are anywhere between 7 and 15 additional kids at the park at any one time and I've only ever seen maybe 3 sets of parents. The school is in the middle of a tight suburban area and these elementary kids walk there alone and wait for their parents to pick them up hours later, or I suppose they walk home alone. A few months ago I was the only adult there when a 12 year old fell off the slide and I stayed with him while his friend ran to the school to get his mom, who is a teacher there.  The kid was taken to the hospital.

This is my first experience with kids old enough to go to such a "big kids" playground, and thus, my first time dealing with issues like this. Kids without parents/guardians within eyesight? Incredible! I feel uncomfortable being the only adult there most of the time, am unsure of where my responsibilities are regarding safety and upholding rules and correcting bad behavior... and I have generally been erring toward focusing on my own two and pretending the others are being cared for by invisible adults (unless there is an injury, in which case I'm still not sure how much responsibility I'm expected to take if someone not in my care gets hurt).

This playground is the only place their parents will let me take them outside of the home and they love going, so I don't want to avoid it and coop us up indoors the entire time I'm on duty. However, in addition to safety/responsibility issues regarding the other kids in this area, there are some who use very foul language and play too roughly with my charges. I've always stepped in in these situations and sometimes the other child has been equally disrespectful to me. I would love to hear opinions on what my level of responsibility toward these strangers' children is regarding general behavior and safety issues, but in addition, I hope to hear advice for how you handle a disrespectful child when there are no parents/teachers/other supportive figures to report the offense to. It's Lord of the Flies out here and so far I've had to resort to vacating the area with my charges for lack of other options.[/quote]

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