Just to clarify the bike issue.... we were about 30 metres sloped upwards to the back of the park. Ds1 was riding about 10m from us in circles as we were helping DS2 on a slide. Ds1 sort of parked the bike closer to us, but still about 5ish metres away, so not in the sand, but not on the path. He came to go on the slide. Our picnic mat was about 20 metres away. I didn't see the boy until he was well on his way down the path and road PAST his family towards the front of the park. I watched him from up where we were assuming he would just turn round and ride it right back you know?? I wasn't letting him have a "turn" and didn't say this to DS1 as it wasn't a turn - in my mind if you take something that isn't yours its stealing. I didn't say that to ds1 as i didn't want him to over react as he was already upset. Plus introducing new words like that would be confusing. By the time i walked with ds1 down the slope, it had been about 5 mins. His family had their backs to where we would have been, but by the time we were down there we were about 5 metres to the side of them and she clearly saw me ask for the bike back - hence mouthing words to me, which i'm sure was sorry. (which i took as sorry i was too lazy to get up). Perhaps i'm being a cow, but who cares if she was tired and having a relax... i have major PND, am on a variety of meds which limit my mobility AND have a chronic neck/back condition. But i struggle through it so my boys can enjoy life, smile and ignore the pain. SO i don't accept that as an excuse. Then i wanted to be clear with DS1 that he should have ASKED for a turn, because he wasn't having a turn if he hadn't asked, you don't just take others property. Plus i wonder if i would be liable if he had an accident on it????? It's not entirely stable as the training wheels aren't aligned perfectly (DS just about to get a new one).

Thanks for the feedback on this issue, it's given me something to think about.

With the fun station, i don't really like these places as they're overpriced and the equipment hygeiene concerns me. But we're trying to make sure we do a variety of activities for our boys and they love the under 5s area. The socks thing is a hygiene issue and they always mention they sell socks there.

Next time i will tell management because the other annoying thing is the older kids leave the gate open and DS2 runs out of there which is really annoying because then he has a tantrum when i take him back in.

It's kind of hard to find something different to do each weekend, as we have no family or friends. SO we generally go park one sunday, beach next sunday, fun station third sunday and somewhere like the foreshore on the fourth sunday.

Anyway thanks again for the advice