Parent takes toy away from my child.

[Autumn777]

We were staying at Thomas Land recently and my children were playing with one of the tables with track on them. No trains are provided so my children took their own.

A man with a boy came over to the table, the boy didn’t have a train so the man just took it out of my child’s hand & passed it to his boy! I went over to explain that it was actually my child’s and he apologised and thought they belonged to the table.

Am I wrong to think that it is inappropriate to ever snatch a toy from someone else’s child? How would others have dealt with this. He apologised to my child. Just think his behaviour as aggressive.

He thought your son was hogging the communal trains, every easy mistake. I would have assumed that too.

He was possibly thinking. Quick shot of the train then see what else there is to do. Kid can play with trains any time at home rather that waste too much time on an expensive day out waiting for a shot.

Think your making a mountain out a mole hill. It's clearly a marketing ploy not to provide trains and they should advise people to bring / buy your own train.

Very odd that he took the toy off your child, regardless of who he thought it belonged to or how long your son had it! I can't imagine ever behaving like that.

I don't think you should have done anything differently though. It all ended well and your boy got his train back. Not worth a big ruckus over. What a wierdo though....

Wait. Wait. Wait. "I think it's my little boy's turn now"

Perfectly fine.

I agree that’s perfectly fine. However I don’t think taking it from the child’s hand is fine.
However, it’s done now and he apologised. Not much more to say about it.

"I think it's my little boy's turn now". Perfectly fine.
Er no. You don’t just announce it’s your turn and forcibly take something from someone’s hand! You wait or ask politely. I’m shocked how many people think it’s ok to just announce that you want an item and take it off someone else who’s currently using it!

I've found the opposite tends to be true-parents who think their entitled little rat bags can hog a toy indefinitely....that's what leads to the passive aggressive commenting around 'it'll be your turn soon'-it's to prompt daft parent into action

That aside, that's not the issue here

OP, maybe the guy doesn't get out with his kid much and isn't aware of the 'norms', he apologised, it's a none issue really, keep the toys at home in future

Maybe I just hang around with some overly possessive parents or my benign neglect childhood has skewed my view?

I remember anything along the lines of

"I want to play with x but Jonny has it"
Or
"Jonny picks up scooter and I then want a turn" was met with

"Well Jonny is playing with it so you'll have to do something else" and "we'll you showed no interest in the scooter until Jonny had it so you'll have to continue to have no interest until he's finished with it!"

NO WAY would my parents ever take a toy off of a child (even if they thought they were hogging it!) they used their time to teach me to entertain myself and to communicate myself with children to either play with them or ask for a go.

It's been a valuable life skill.