I live in a large condo building. The bulk of my neighbors are immigrant families (from one general region/culture) with young kids. Today I took LO to our playground and there were two girls a bit younger than LO (2ish) sitting in the bucket swings with no one around them. There was a group of women nearby sitting and socializing, and a large group of older kids (school age) playing together. After 5-10 minutes of the little girls crying "mama," one of the women came over, pushed them on the swing and said something to one of the girls in the older group (I assume their sister and it seemed like she was telling her to pay attention to the little girls). Then she went back into the group of women: Another 5-10 minutes passed, the girls are sitting in the swing, no one paying attention. The older group of girls went off the playground to play behind it. The woman is still talking in her group. Eventually she took them both out or the swing, but it was a solid 15-20 minutes if not longer. My mom, when she was visiting a few weeks ago, had an identical experience, except there were no adults nearby. My guess is that the little kids were in the care of the older ones, who wanted to play on their own.

Either way- would you have said something or called security or anything? I try really hard not to judge parents and God knows all I wanted was to sit and chat with friends after a full day too, but leave a kid in a swing unattended for so long? They weren't in any danger, but it still felt weird. I think there's also a cultural issue (another parent actually did the same thing with her toddler as we were leaving- just plopped him in the bucket swing and left to sit with her friends) so I'm not sure if I'm overreacting or if I should have done something.