Wondering how other parents here handle this kind of thing. A few days ago I was at a playground with my kid and there were two kids, maybe 4-5 years old, playing pretty aggressively. They were throwing the big building bricks around and even putting them on top of the slide to shoot down. The mothers were sitting outside the play area on a blanket having tea, didn’t seem to notice or care at all. There were two other moms with toddlers standing right there watching it happen too, but nobody said a word. In the end I went over and told the kids to stop throwing the bricks, calmly, because someone could get seriously hurt. One of them just said “why should we stop?” and I told him it was dangerous for the other kids. Since then I’ve been going back and forth on whether that was the right call. Would you talk to the kids directly like I did, go find the parents first, or just leave it alone unless someone actually gets hurt? I don’t want to come across like I’m judging anyone’s parenting, but when it’s a safety thing happening right in front of me, I feel like it’s on all of us to step in if we can stop a kid getting hurt. Is that seen as normal here in Switzerland, or are you supposed to only ever go through the parents? submitted by /u/AndreiXNXN
Originally posted by u/AndreiXNXN on r/Switzerland