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Originally Posted by calf

There's a kid (about 6) that's always at the same playground my kids go to. He lives in the area, but his parents are never around, and I've never seen anyone watching him from one of the nearby houses. He's climbing high up trees, standing on top of the monkey bars, etc. Not things I'd let my kids do, but he's not my kid, so even though it makes me nervous, I don't say anything.

Except the other day when he got himself into a tricky situation so I went up and was able to get him down safely. But I gave him a friendly "don't go up so high when your parents aren't around".

Obviously his parents are good with what he's doing (or at least I assume they are), but should I have said "don't do this"? I don't want to have to keep saving the kid, or worse, he gets himself hurt or stuck again when there's no one around to help.

Have you ever seen a kid skeleton in a tree? They'll figure it out. He'll never learn if you keep saving him.