What would you do if you saw this?

I definitely would have stopped them, as it's very dangerous, and someone needs to look out for the little ones. One thing though is that the parents of the boys are the ones that should be teaching them about safety. I may let my kids run and play a bit roughly, but if it's something dangerous, then I make sure that they know they can't do that.

I am usually the one who says something about whatever is going on. Sometimes it makes parents unhappy, but hey, that's life. I might have gone so far as to get out of the car. I think you did the right thing. It sounds like you were really nice in how you handled it. I also agree that it was possibly a bad accident waiting to happen. I also believe that in some instances we let the child learn by natural consequences. I do not think this should have been once of those instances, although it appears that the "parent" was taking that approach.

In the past I would have stepped in. Now a days I don't get involved. The last time I said somrthing to a kid, the kids lied to the parents. I then had these people come to the school & threaten me in front of my kids when I was 7 months pregnant. After that I said I was not putting myself out there again.

I probably would have been too timid to say anything but it definitely would have bothered me a lot. I don't think that they should be running with sticks and when I taught preschool, I often had to tell kids to put down sticks so that they didn't get hurt. Since these were not my kids nor kids in my charge, I probably would have felt weird speaking up and maybe that's how the others felt too. where were the parents for these chidren during this. THEY are the ones that SHOULD have said something~!

You did the right thing, if those were my kinds i would have thanked you. Some parents take offense to things like this but they will get over it.

Good Job there! People normally will not take any action because they don't want to mess up with someone's kid. Action will only occur if something bad happen. I would do the same too, unless it's a gang fight. :) Should call the police then.

Even if they weren't my kids I would have had no problem telling them to put the stick down. I think that you did the right thing in saying something. I am surprised too that none of the other parents said something to them

Yes, I would have stopped them. That was an accident waiting to happen, as you said. The parents of the two boys should have stopped it long before you did. I for one would not let my kids run around like that. I'm the type of parent that will say something to a child, even if that child is not mine. Especially if it's going to keep them or others from getting hurt. I was at McDonalds one day with my kids, sitting in the play area eating. And a little boy was kicking the ball right towards a lady sitting behind me. He kicked the ball and it hit her drink causing it to spill all over her food. I expected her to say something or his mom to get up and say something, but neither one of them did. The little boy got the ball and started kicking it again. Well, when he kicked it, I got up, caught the ball, walked over to him and told him that if he was going to kick the ball to kick it toward the wall not at people eating, or don't play with it at all. Well, he did exactly what I told him to do and within 5 minutes his mom got up and they left. Neither one of them ever appologized to the women. I thought that was so rude.

You did a good job there. As you saw most people would not be involved even if the kids actually came to blows. When I take our kids to a park I am oftem amazed at how unobservent a lot af parents are. But it takes a lot to actually say something to corresct a problem. You are a good person.

I would have stopped them. I would have gotten out of the car and given them a good talking to. Children must learn what is right and wrong, dangerous and fun. And if their own parents would not do it, I would. It takes a village....

If it were my kids and I was not there I would definately appreciate someone stepping in to potentialy save my childs life. I do step in if I think I need to. It takes a village to raise a child.

I would have said something also! I know I would have felt terrible if the little boy fell and the stick hurt him!! Ooohh...I just cringe thinking about it. My sontries to run around with everything and I am so afraid he will fall on whatever he is holding. I think you did the right thing by yelling out the window...I probably would have walked over to them and asked them not to run with the stick so they didn't get hurt. I can't believe other parents didn't say anything, that is crazy!!

I'd stop them. I once wrote here about kids on a mall playground that were rough housing and endangering the safety of toddlers. I stopped them too. I know for a fact that kids without supervision can get into trouble and it just seems like good karma to make sure that something bad doesn't happen. So good for you! I wish I had that mom whistle, I need to work on that ;)

I would havehave put a stop to it too because I would hope if it were my child in the situation and I wasn't there - that another parent would help. We all teach our kids not to do such things but they don't listen to everything. I think it's great that you did what you did. Every parent and even those not parents should step in if they see something off. Doesn't mean you are over stepping bounderes - you're protecting them. If a child was drowning - I bet the parents would want you to help. Well, these kids could have poked out their eye - our worse.... More parents should step up like you did!! Good Job!

I would of did the same thing you did. I think you did the right thing. I also wish more parents would open their mouths more when they see things like this. I would hope if my child was running with a stick or vise versa that someone would speack up. A serious accident could of happened.

i definately would have stopped them. its so sad to see how ignorant many of the parents are today. to busy to see what is wrong. and these are the first to say, todays childs are bad. these all should not be allowed to have kids

I'm not a parent and just recently have two young nephews but I've always been the "motherly" type! If I were there and witnessed this going on then I would have had my window down yelling to this kid to put the stick down probably way before you could even get the chance to! LOL By the way I speak (my voice is very loud!) the kid probably would have been scared and never pick up another stick again!

I probably would. I would never allow something bad to happen. Not specially if i'm around. I would take it as my responsibility if I was there, as an adult. Sometimes other adults just don't care specially if it's not their own. And I'll be doing it so someday hoping that if this happens to my kid, someone responsible enough would do the same. And I thhank you for doing that to the kids.

Kudos to you for being the only parent to intervene. You're right, it was a bad accident waiting to happen. Even if the children were playing around, it could have led to something quite tragic. It also bothers me that no other parent sitting at the bus stop bothered to intervene. I think some parents have doubts about how much they should or should not intervene when it comes to other children. Regardless, I would have said something, and I'm glad you had enough common sense to have the child drop the stick.

Sounds to me like stopping them was the better call. Kids love to get carried away with that sort of thing and before you know it they'll be hurting themselves. I sure know i had many accidents that happened that way when i was little, had stitches just over my eye once when i was playing with my brother on one of these roll out futons.. we were mock fighting or something and of course the edges of those beds have lots of hard metal frame.. you get the idea. It wasn't really my brothers fault but he sure got screamed at when my mom came in and saw me bleeding. Oh well, no real harm done in the end, it healed up just fine. ^_^