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Well, this is one of those ‘teaching’ moments, and really, a 2.5 year old is NOT going to remember this as something that’s going to put her into therapy for 20 years of her life! I think ‘Mom’ may be taking this harder and making more of it than need be. :)

I’d get the facts first, and if the parents of the Junior Thugs are agreeable, then I’d have a talk with the boys about destroying property that didn’t belong to them in the first place!

When my boys were about 12 or so, they took their BB guns and shot out EVERY window in the old milk house. Yep. It wasn’t ours, even though it’s adjacent to our property, it hadn’t been used since the 1970’s, but d@mmit! It sure didn’t belong to THEM! Those guns were put away for six months. They totally missed Squirrel Season, and THAT is the lesson that needs to be taught here, not a lesson for the two year old.

I think you may be making mroe of this than need be, and if the head of the sunflower can be salvaged, just tell the 2 year old that it was time to harvest it, hang it to dry and put it by the bird feeding station and let the Chickadees have at it.

Chill, Mom. This is NOT the end of the world for your kid...but it should most certainly be a swift kick in the @ss for the kids that destroyed the sunflower!