re: Policy on touching other people's kids? OPINIONS!

I'd help lol. And I wouldn't be bugged out if say I'm busy doing something with my son and my daughter wanted help getting into a swing and she asked another parent near by (which she doesn't because she's shy, but lets say she does). I dont know why, but I wouldn't mind. The area we live in and play at is very friendly and not very "stranger danger" type.

<blockquote><b>Quoting ma ♥:</b>"  "</blockquote>




I swear those are the only god dam words I mix up >.< ill think of you next time I use seen or saw

I would have helped and i wouldn't have had any problem with another adult helping her.

Quoting saageex3:" <blockquote><b>Quoting ma ♥:</b>"  "</blockquote> I swear those are the only god dam words I mix up >.< ill think of you next time I use seen or saw"

Hahaha well that was my plan ! Glad it's working  

<blockquote><b>Quoting KNZ.:</b>" well that's how it is with my kids too. but these other parents obviously don't share the same ideas. i guess next time i'd just let them fall? "</blockquote>


it sucks that parents are not paying attention, and you don't want them too get hurt but you never know when you will have a parent getting mad at you for helping their kid.I guess if you where to help them you should ask the parent if its ok.

My cousin and I took my son to the park. I walked him up the slide and she caught him. well when we got to the top and he sat down a kid runs over and gets on than slide to start climbing up it. My cousin stuck her arm out in front of him and kept asking him nor to climb up it that someone is coming down. The mom was definitely in ear shot and didn't do anything. I was saying excuse me too. I could see my cousin struggling not to just move the kid who was probably around 7. I usually just leave to something else but the other things for his age (16m) were taken. In your case I would tell the kid to ask their parents if you can help them. and talk to the parents if they would like. When I was younger I could get away with it. I was a teen with little toddler sisters so I just helped others but I think adults are different.

being that DD is not quite big enough for our park, we haven't been since we were like 16. our town likes to shut down anywhere and anything for teens here to do so it got a curfew and age limit on the park. if you were/are older than i think 13 and didn't have a child, you weren't/aren't allowed there in the playground area and not in the park at all past like 10. we would occasionally take dh's cousin's kids to the park when we had them and it was nice out. given i was a teenager, i felt obligated as someone older i felt responsible so always out of habit i would help. i always watched and babysat little kids. in grade school i had more friends younger than me who wanted to hang because i'd play with them and help them.

idk about DD, i'm a little paranoid, but with just her, that's not an issue.

I think I'd feel worse if I ignored someone else's kid and then they got seriously hurt.

I don't think it's weird. I get happy when I see other parents involved with the kids at the park and as long as it's someone who is there with children, I don't see anything strange about it. We have a swimming pool for our apartment complex and when I would take my daughter swimming, some of the parents that actually went in the pool would play with her. Men (*gasp!*) and women. I didn't mind at all because my daughter was having fun and I couldn't go in the pool to play with her. There was only one time I felt awkward about interacting with someone else's kid and that was when I used to drop my daughter off at day care, there was a little boy who would always run up and hug me. I didn't know what to do, so I just patted him on the back.

<blockquote><b>Quoting PJ&C:</b>" <blockquote><b>Quoting KNZ.:</b>" well that's how it is with my kids too. but these ... [snip!] ... have a parent getting mad at you for helping their kid.I guess if you where to help them you should ask the parent if its ok."</blockquote>



If a parent got mad at me i would legitimately tell them if they'd actually be a smurfing parent i wouldn't have had to interact with their kid in the first place.

I'd feel weird about it also. The last few times we've been to the park, we've had the LO there in her car seat sleeping, and of course I get to be the one stuck sitting with her at a picnic table watching DH play with the older 2. So if DH was busy with one kid while the other was doing something else asking another adult for help, I would feel weird about it but I would hope they understand that I have to stay with the baby. Buuut if I didn't have to sit with the baby, there would be no need for anyone else to help my child because I would be there with him helping him myself. I *probably* wouldn't do it for another kid, especially if their parent is not doing anything. I mean... if their parent was like, in a wheelchair or crutches or some kind of clear handicap, I would definitely do it. Otherwise, I would tell the child to keep asking their parent, that I can't do it. I'd probably give the parent a glare once in a while, also.