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Input: This is probably better in r/parenting but here it is anyhow. My son is 2 and a half, and he likes to arrange his toy cars in a neat row. He gets VERY angry when you move a car out of line, and so I generally try to respect “his” toys and leave them be. 

Anyway, he had a bunch of flash cards (numbers, alphabet, etc) and they were in a big messy pile. I was sorting them out while he was playing in the room with me (with other toys) when he came over to look at what I was doing. I could tell he wanted to mess up my neat piles, so I asked him very politely and seriously not to mess up my piles. He got a mischievous look on his face and then batted all the cards all over the room. I got up, walked over to his cars, and said “I asked you not to mess up my cards, and you did it anyway, so now I’m gonna mess up your cars” and I calmly scattered them all around. He flipped out and started crying, and I explained to him that if he wants people to respect his things, he needs to be nice to other people too.

I was trying to use this as a teaching moment for him, but I honestly just feel bad about the whole thing in hindsight and wonder if I made the right move. In the moment, I felt like it was the most appropriate way of teaching a toddler, since his language and comprehension skills are not completely developed yet. AITA for going the “eye for an eye” route with him?

scattering up my sons toys in retaliation after he scattered the cards I was playing with after I told him not to