Reply #27: why do you have to blame anyone? there are always going to be things around.

[ejpoeta]

you have to learn how to deal with it. kids will hit kids. deal with it. if your kid hits the other one with the toy, then you give your kid a time out and tell them we don't hit kids. if their kid hits your kid, then they should give a time out and tell the kid we don't hit other kids. why does everything have to be a sue someone kind of thing. we can't keep our kids away from everything! we must teach our kids to get along in the world in which these things exist.

FWIW...my husband and his brother had metal tonka truck as kids and hit each other with them. i do believe the indentation in bob's forehead beetween his eyes is from one such incident. he seems to have survived otherwise intact. life happens. kids do things they shouldn't. as a parent we teach them what is and isn't appropriate. and that is how it has to be. whether the toys are metal or plastic or anything else.

it's amazing any kid has ever survived childhood! i mean, i think of the toys we had as kids. we never had helmets! our outlet covers or anything else like that. we learned by making mistakes. and our world wasn't child proofed. and yet somehow we survived and have learned what is ok and what may not be so ok.