YidArmyRach
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No, it isn't an automatic instinct to get the unhurt one right next to you if you are enjoying nature. The instinct is to give attention to the other one and assume, except in cases of a child with behavioral issues, that that other child will pause and wait nearby. No, in a nature setting on a pleasure venture, parents don't pull a 2 year old close so they can interact with a 4 year old. Unless the two year old has autism or some other behavioral predisposition to run.
Must just be me then. Just glad I never assumed my 2 year old would pause and wait nearby whilst I was distracted by another of my children.
I worked with children for 15 years and had 5 of my own. I know that you can never 'assume' what a child will do. The only thing you can assume, is that they are unpredictable!
When working with young children, we were always taught (when outside the classroom/nursery) to always count up your children - constantly. You always had to know where they were, for the simple reason that it only takes a minute or two to lose one of them.