to think she didn't have to share?

[macdoodle]

I'm not sure about this so am prepared to be told IABU.
Lovely sunny day, so take DD2 after nursery for a walk along the cliff and a play in the park :)
She wants to take a doll and a pram for a walk. So off we go.
Have a lovely walk and get to the park. DD2 playing, I am sat on bench with pram/doll, bag etc.
A little boy maybe about 2 toddles up, and starts playing with the pram,am not too bothered but DD2 runs up looking alarmed. Try to reassure her he is just playing but we are in a big open area so I don't really want him walking off with it, I don't him or his parent.
Eventually as DD2 was starting to get a bit upset, his mum comes up, and rather huffily takes him away saying "it's ok, the little girl doesn't want to SHARE", gives me a filthy look and stomps off :(
So??? Should I have just let some unknown child walk off with DD2's new pram (I know it shouldn't matter but it was a nice Baby Annabel one which she has only just had as a present), does the sharing thing extend to unknown kids in public areas??

Bollocks to that. I also need my laptop, my SLR, my iPad, my iPhone, my car, my stereo, my plasma TV, my foot spa, and most of all my teddy bear.....

Not sharing with any fucker!

Actually I would share with THE AnyFucker! Where is she??!!!

She left didn't she? Did A thread saying goodbye. Oh and op yanbu.

YANBU. You didn't know him or his mum, and it was your DD's new doll and pram.

You'd let him have a look, but the mum can't really have expected you to let him walk off playing with it surely?!

YANBU

The woman would do better to teach her child not to expect to be able to use other people's stuff whenever he feels like it.

Anyfucker left? WTF?

The mum just can't be bothered to take her own toys to the park and hopes others will share theirs.

I had a rule of no sharing toys in the park - we didn't borrow other kids' and didn't let them borrow ours. It's just too much hassle and you can't keep track of things.

The buggy thing is a nightmare - used to curse parents who had let their child bring one when I had forgotten ours!

I bought my DD her own netbook because I didn't want to have to share mine!

personally i don't have a problem if other kids want to use our stuff if my own aren't playing with it. but only if i can keep a close eye on it.

YANBU. I once accidentally let my ds play with some toys in a big communal sandpit, I thought the toys were communal too and they weren't, some family had brought them along - and I was v apologetic when I realised, I certainly wouldn't have expected the little boy to share with us!

YANBU.

Either the other parent is very odd (how would she like it if you accused her son of not sharing his bike with your daughter in a public park, not knowing whether you and your daughter would ride off and keep bike)

or

you are being oversensitive and reading too much into her 'look'.

IMO, sharing of personal items does not extend to unknown people in public parks.

YANBU we expect far too much in terms of sharing.

AF is still around but under a cunning new guise

YANBU I've had this before myself. It's a bit tricky as you want your DC to share their stuff, but at the same time it's a bit like having a random stranger take your ipod while you're not using it. They may intend to hand it back when you ask for it but I know I'd be suitably outraged

I got told by one arsehole daddy of a pfb that if my 3 year old didn't want to share her scooter with others she shouldn't have bought it to the park In fairness to DD she was incredibly patient with the little boy in question and only went apeshit and asked for it back when he crashed it into the fence for the 20th time in 10 minutes while his daddy insisted he'd "done such a good job!" I passive agressively suggested to said daddy he should maybe buy his son his own scooter only to be told that he didn't believe in spoiling his son. Nah, he just thought it was ok to let his son spoil toys belonging to other children...

Or alternatively OP you could say, "Well seeing as I bought it, it's mine. And I don't share."

I know AF had namechanged by the way, just asking existentially! Norfolk - are you....?!

YANBU

"it's ok, the little girl doesn't want to SHARE", gives me a filthy look and stomps off

"it's ok, the little boy hasn't been taught any manners, and doesn't know it's rude to help themselves to things that are not theirs" return filthy look

YANBU

Speaking as a middle child the whole concept of sharing is seriously over rated.

Sheesh.

Since when have toys taken out of the house into a public place become 'community toys'

Fuck that. You bought it for her, she gets to play with it.

End of.

Unanimous YANBU. The mother sounds rather thick and has not realised that the "share" obsession only applies when a group of children are all using communal toys ie a playgroup.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh I wish I was AF but alas I am merely fawning in her shadow

Sharing is over-rated.

Ooh I think I would of sidled up to her, started rifling in her bag and say "Ooh I only wanted to share your phone/house keys/lipstick etc"