WIBU to let DD accept 20p from a random man on the street?

[Rainatnight]

DD (3) and I were walking down our local high st today, when an older man said hello to her. He was sort of late middle age/early old age and looked a little down on his luck.

Then he doubled back to us and held out two ten pence pieces to her. I said, 'oh no, thank you so much, she doesn't really get money yet' but he was insistent and seemed to really want to give them to her.

So I let her take them. My rationale was that he might have been a little lonely and just wanted to do something nice. She said thank you, I said thank you and we all went on our way.

Afterwards I was a bit worried about whether I was sending the wrong message about stranger danger/accepting money from random men!

But maybe I'm overthinking it.

What do y'all think?

It's a wierd one. I'd just let it go. But maybe chat about always asking mummy or daddy if it is okay first and to never go anywhere or with anyone without you. Age appropriate type stuff.

Thing is children don’t need to be scared of strangers, especially when with mummy/daddy. Some people take the stranger danger too far and the poor little buggers end up scared of everyone that dares to speak to them.

You were with her, it’s fine.....

I'm sure years ago my grandmother said there was some tradition about putting a coin in a new borns hand? Could he have been thinking along those lines (even though she is older). Otherwise maybe he was just being nice.

Yes, Pink, that's sort of what I think, and I'm pretty friendly and open generally, and DD is too. But then I wondered.

Stayaway, that's the sort of thing I'd sort of envisaged doing a bit later, when she was older, cos she's always with a grown up currently.