The outcome was very expected, that's the point. Do you have children by the way? Because, as much as I would like mine to live in a wonderful Disney like reality where everything is sunshine and rainbows, they don't. They live in an sprawling urban jungle rife with Potential dangers. It would be irresponsible not to teach stranger danger to children these days as very horrible things do happen, very regularly. So go ahead, you can be disgusted with the state of things these days, I thinks you will find many in agreement with you, but similarly don't laud the guy that offered sweets to an unknown child. It's naive to pretend we live in a world where that gesture doesn't have potentially awful connotations. OP surely knew this, you and I know this. We can lament over the state of things another time, OP is still stupid for his actions.

68, I can see your point - there are dangers. However, parents can go about teaching their kids in a way to be less paranoid. Her reaction was pretty severe. Maybe start with "No thank you"? Then she can walk inside the store and wait there.

Unquestionably. The nut cracking little tike doesn't exactly sound sweetness and light either and I don't think that's an appropriate response to the situation she was in. Child vs adult though, arguably the kid may have known a better way to respond, unarguably the OP should have known better than to offer out sweeties. It's a tough one. As I said above,(#52) deserved for the approach of the child, undeserved to get nut shotted.