Fencing/neighbours kids

bigmaz

pulliptears wrote: »

There are many people on this site I'd have expected a comment like that from and you peachy aren't one them.
I can only assume you were having a bad day when you posted that because in all the years I've read your posts I've never known you to be so nasty.

It was pretty nasty eh? I am sure its just because they were having a bad day if that is not the kind of comment they would normally make.

Sometimes your scared to post on this forum, as some of the replies you get back are pretty nasty

warehouse

vroombroom wrote: »

OH checked the plant pots about half an hour ago and there are chicken bones lying between them:eek::eek:

As I said earlier, expect stones before long. Until they get bored make that area completely out of bounds.

Alias_Omega

Holes in the fence can be blocked with a staplegun and some bin-bags / plastic.

With supervision (me sat on a chair), the children do play in the street. We live in a Close and they play with the other children. I am usually found to be shouting "Car!" as they cycle up and down.

The back garden, well thats our backgarden. We have hand sizes holes in the fence to next door, the fence is roughly 5ft high and the garden gate is padlocked shut. The children can often be found running around the garden at 6:30am, usually in PJ's on a school day. I can usually be found shouting "Shoes!", however not at this time.

I am putting my flameproof coat on, as i prepare to the flamed.

vroombroom

Just an update: We got the fence panel and OH put it up on Fri morning. We've had a nice few days in the garden too.
The little boy has been shouting my son's name nearly every day and my son, bless him, is saying 'I can't see my friend anymore', so we've been saying that he is a naughty boy and we only like kind friends. We've had some bread and small stones (as someone predicited lol) launched over but luckily not when we have been in the garden BUT my dog likes to lie in the garden and my rabbits are usually out. If it continues over the next day or so, I'm going to pop round and have a word.

fivetide

Why wait? Proven track record. I would certainly have a word with the parents.

Good on you for keeping your kid safe but there is no reason they should be dodging the responsibility of disciplining their own child. If it was mine that had done that, he'd be banned from the garden until he could show he knew how to behave.

Mojisola

vroombroom wrote: »

The little boy has been shouting my son's name nearly every day and my son, bless him, is saying 'I can't see my friend anymore', so we've been saying that he is a naughty boy and we only like kind friends.

We've had some bread and small stones (as someone predicited lol) launched over but luckily not when we have been in the garden BUT my dog likes to lie in the garden and my rabbits are usually out. If it continues over the next day or so, I'm going to pop round and have a word.

This is unlikely to settle down quickly unless the parents really crack down on his behaviour.

Without letting it take over your life, I would keep a diary of what's happening. If the situation gets bad enough to involve outside agencies, it's one thing to say "this has been going on for ages" and another to hand over a written record of how the incidents have escalated.

vroombroom

Mojisola wrote: »

This is unlikely to settle down quickly unless the parents really crack down on his behaviour.

Without letting it take over your life, I would keep a diary of what's happening. If the situation gets bad enough to involve outside agencies, it's one thing to say "this has been going on for ages" and another to hand over a written record of how the incidents have escalated.

that's an excellent idea - thank you:D

notanewuser

bigmaz wrote: »

It actually breaks my heart that I dont let him out, but I could not live with myself if something happened and he was taken away. Some people say we are over protective, but its the world we live in. He isnt street wise, so would be easily led astray.

:huh:

Only difference between your childhood and his is 24/7 media whipping everyone up into a frenzy about bogeymen that are few and far between!

Carmina-Piranha_2

It's not fear of bogeymen that stops me letting mine out to play unsupervised - it's the increased traffic on the roads.

At 8 though he is getting the hang of estimating whether he has time to cross or not. The person I replied to had a 6 year old though, I think, and there is no way I could have let mine cross a road at 6, either of them.

My 8 year old will probably go to the local parks alone during this summer holiday, maybe the corner shop, and that is younger than when my eldest went out alone, but my youngest is more alert. Eldest would have wandered into traffic in a daydream!

It all depends on what the child is like, and what area you live in. We have a nasty crossroads next to our house that's been the scene of a lot of accidents. When I was a kid we lived on an ordinary street with hardly any traffic.