Kids playing football in the street/cars

Person_one

notanewuser wrote: »

They do when they aren't storing flooring and furniture, yes!!!

Then this is a temporary problem, so doing what you're doing will be fine for now!

barbarawright

janninew wrote: »

Depends if you look after your car or not! A ball hitting my car every now and then is a big deal. Fair enough if you have an old banger but if your a car lover and take care of it a few football dents and scruffs are likely to bother you a lot.

So keep it in the garage. Kids have as much right to use open spaces as anyone else. Isn't the usual complaint that children are too busy with computer games to play outside? It sounds a nice, friendly place to live if a bunch of small boys feel safe kicking a ball around outside.

balletshoes

Person_one wrote: »

Then this is a temporary problem, so doing what you're doing will be fine for now!

until wimbledon, when the kids will be out on the front lawns with notanewuser practising their serve and volleys .

janninew

Person_one wrote: »

Do people who care so much about their cars not put them in garages or put those daft covers over them?

If they have a garage i'm sure they do, some people only have a drive though. I've never seen a car cover on a normal residential street, i doubt they would stop dents from footballs though, those leatherballs are very hard and if kicked and hit a car side panel would damage it.

notanewuser

barbarawright wrote: »

So keep it in the garage. Kids have as much right to use open spaces as anyone else. Isn't the usual complaint that children are too busy with computer games to play outside? It sounds a nice, friendly place to live if a bunch of small boys feel safe kicking a ball around outside.

By open spaces do you mean other people's drives and front gardens?! The builders left a lovely green space perfect for children to play on just around the corner. I'm not sure why my drive and front gardens should be an alternative to that for most of the children at least!!!

I'm not sure what I'll do with DD while I get the car out of the garage though. Do I leave her unsupervised on the drive or in the kitchen?? (She's 2 and a half.).

janninew

barbarawright wrote: »

So keep it in the garage. Kids have as much right to use open spaces as anyone else. Isn't the usual complaint that children are too busy with computer games to play outside? It sounds a nice, friendly place to live if a bunch of small boys feel safe kicking a ball around outside.

Yes kids and any member of the public has right to be outside, what they don't have the right to do is damage property that doesn't belong to them. That seems like such common sense to me!

jackomdj

I am with OP here. We live in a pleasant little road and all the children play out the front. However 2 of them are mine, three from one of the neighbours and one from another neighbour. I shout at them if they go anywhere near the cars! Also I won't let my girls take bats etc out the front.

I do think you are going to have to continually remind them to stay away from the car, or be careful around the car. If they are a nice bunch of children, which from how you describe them they sound reasonable, they will try their hardest and the more you remind them the longer they will remember for.

I would mention in passing to the parents that you have told them to stay away from the cars and not run over gardens. I did similar to the single child I mentioned above's brother who does not play in the street much as him and his mates were doing something I did not like, told them off then mentioned to his mum that I had told them all off when she came down to collect her daughter.

OH is very protective of our cars, but they don't fit in the garage as that is full of even more precious motorbikes!

CH27

notanewuser wrote: »

By open spaces do you mean other people's drives and front gardens?! The builders left a lovely green space perfect for children to play on just around the corner. I'm not sure why my drive and front gardens should be an alternative to that for most of the children at least!!!

I'm not sure what I'll do with DD while I get the car out of the garage though. Do I leave her unsupervised on the drive or in the kitchen?? (She's 2 and a half.).

Could you plant some roses along your boundaries to protect your garden & drive?

Person_one

notanewuser wrote: »

By open spaces do you mean other people's drives and front gardens?! The builders left a lovely green space perfect for children to play on just around the corner. I'm not sure why my drive and front gardens should be an alternative to that for most of the children at least!!!

I'm not sure what I'll do with DD while I get the car out of the garage though. Do I leave her unsupervised on the drive or in the kitchen?? (She's 2 and a half.).

Well on a recent thread you did say you were happy to let her play unsupervised in the garden, so what about putting her there?

notanewuser

Person_one wrote: »

Well on a recent thread you did say you were happy to let her pay unsupervised in the garden, so what about putting her there?

Oh !!!!!!. That is not what I said.