In case of the girl poking eyes ! I would have sat down and explained and made her understand what could happen to the eyes. Try it, kids love to know new stuff if explained well.
But I guess it’s totally our call assessing the situation.

Thanks for sharing, appreciate it.

Regarding another kid hitting your kid, is it better for the concerned parent to talk to the other parent about what their kid did to your kid. Instead of the parent asking their kid to go and talk directly to the other kids mother(aunty). What is the reason the latter is better than the former.

When the bigger kids bully my son, like grabbing his toy etc, I usually keep a watch from a distance because I want him to learn to handle it. For now he keeps cool, and walks off and plays with something else.He does not cry or complain to me. But I keep a lookout that they dont harm him. Like once I saw an older girl point a stick near his eye. Then I just carried him away from her. Do you think there was something else I should have done, like inform the girls mother or tell the girl sweetly not to do it?.