yesterday at the Sasquatch, there were two children at the table waiting for snow cones. The young man was playing with the umbrella, raising and lowering it and spinning it around. They young lady was asking him for a turn to play. He continued to antagonize her by turning the umbrella not letting her have a turn. She got madder and madder and stood on top of the table and started kicking the boy as he violently shook the umbrella.
At this point I raised my voice and said "I am going to ask you two to stop playing like that. You need to stop that behavior". They did stop.
The mother was about three feet away from the table waiting for the snow cones. She was very upset that I would discipline her children in this way. That they had special needs. She said she would have paid for the umbrella if they would have broken it. I did not have a right to intervene in the situation.
I do feel like it is my duty to try to intervene in behaviors of others that is not appropriate. We have a social contract on behavior. It takes a village is one of the sayings that was very popular not long ago.