Curious on the social aspect of rv'ing

pk1023 wrote:
Excuse me, you weren't there. Let me add more detail. My children WELL know the boundaries that are placed upon them. They were little and I believe they thought it was common area. They were throwing a good 10 feet from the back of his unit and not at the unit.

The OLD man yelled at my children. He didn't warn them, he didn't remind them. He BULLIED them, he used his size against them. So when I had to intervene, I used my size to STEP BETWEEN him and my children. I feared for their safety. No reasonable adult YELLS at children BEFORE they cause harm. You're right, they didn't belong there and I TOLD THEM THAT afterwards.

This all happened in the space of 5 minutes. Those who oppose me are drawing it out to like half an hour.

These kids were 6 and 8, it's VERY likely they didn't understand the risk they were taking. Were it today at 10 and 8, yeah it'd be different.

cbshoestring wrote:
AT PK1023

YOU were NOT parenting. A parent would have sized up the situation, and yelled at HIS KIDS to get off (away from) that other mans site/trailer. Then apologized to that man for his kids being where they don't belong.

What do you call YELLING at???? Was the guy going Pyscho, or did you just not like that he was adamant that your kids would not do wrong near his stuff. Teach your kids to play ball in a safe area (where "accidents" can not accur), teach them about boundries (the world does NOT belong to them), then teach then respect for others.

What did you teach them????

Do as you want......wherever you want......and DAD will be a BULLY for you.

Have you not heard, ANTI-BULLYING is the new wave.

Before everybody gets up in arms. I believe that ANY adult has the right to scold any child if the child is about to harm himself, others or property that doesn't belong to him

NO YOU DON'T. This man was scolding them because they were about to harm.... property that doesn't belong to him

What you mean is....rescue my kids if they are about to kill themselves....otherwise leave them be.

I politely (as much as I could) told him NOT to speak to my boys. If he has a problem with them, he can find me and I will handle it.

Yeah, we know how your crowd works....

20 years ago at my home, I repeatedly ask the kickball crowd to watch my car. I enjoyed watching them play, but after the ball bounced off my car into my lap on the front porch....to which all I got was a bunch of laughing....I kept the ball and told them to have a parent come get it. The parents sent the POLICE, who called ME the grumpy old man (I was 33 at the time).

Had the nerve to tell me that I should take MY car out of MY driveway, and put it in MY garage...to keep the neighbors BRATS from causing a problem on MY property.

You still don't get it. Maybe the old man went overboard. That does not change the fact that you told your kids AFTERWARD that they didn't belong there. You say they did not understand the risk. Managing risk for them is YOUR job. You said yourself they were too young to do it for themselves at the time.
If you were doing your job as a parent none of this would have happened. We are all imperfect and human. We all make mistakes. But you only want to recognize the other guy's mistake while ignoring your own.