kids playing football-what do i do??

Cat501

ghawn wrote: »

Barriejohn69, you sound like the kind of father we have living in our cul de sac. One that calls himself a parent, but has no idea of how to parent

Seriously? Because this sounds perfectly acceptable to me......

barriejohn69 wrote: »

If their ball goes into a neighbour's garden I'll lift them over the fence to get it. Nothing ever gets damaged and they don't cheel people. If they did they'd be marched round there to apologise.

You have to live and let live, one person's rights don't supercede another's. We have a communal back area and in good weather it can be really noisy with kids playing football and screaming and shouting. So what? It's their back garden too. They're just being kids. And, this being Scotland, there are FAR more days of the year when they're not out playing and the people who like it quiet get it their own way.

Some people seem to want it their way, 100% of the time. Life's not like that unless, as has been said, you're wealthy enough to be able to afford isolation.

MrsAtobe

Cat501, I do appreciate what you are saying, but when you've been hit in the head with a football, wrecking a pair of prescription glasses into the bargain, given multiple headaches by the thump thump thump of the football against the wall, and scalded yourself with a cup of tea when you jump because someone's retrieving their football from the flowerbed underneath your window and has just straightened up, you may feel slightly differently about it. .

Besides, aren't we all entitled to peaceful enjoyment of our homes?

Cat501

MrsAtobe wrote: »

Cat501, I do appreciate what you are saying, but when you've been hit in the head with a football, wrecking a pair of prescription glasses into the bargain, given multiple headaches by the thump thump thump of the football against the wall, and scalded yourself with a cup of tea when you jump because someone's retrieving their football from the flowerbed underneath your window and has just straightened up, you may feel slightly differently about it. .

Besides, aren't we all entitled to peaceful enjoyment of our homes?

Yes - just as children are entitled to make a noise sometimes I get peace sometimes, and noise sometimes. That's fair. It's impossible to keep everyone completely happy all of the time.

I've been hit on the head with a ball - I got a fright but these things happen, I don't think it was deliberate (!,) no prescription glasses broken for me though so no harm done!

dmliverpool

This is so silly. My kid plays football and anyone who'd try to say no ball games allowed would be told where to go. I think with teenagers far enough tell to to move on but with children under the age of 10 then I'd say that it's really antisocial for someone to stop them roaming free in a safe area. Would you rather they intentionally bricked your cars or stole to pass the time of day?
As for video recording children if my neighbour did that and they tried to use such a video I would call the police and go down the line of why are they recording children?
I think the best thing to do would be to talk to the parents to discuss the situation and hope for the best as for going down an asbo route I would say that's a misuse of the law and unless property is damaged (significant such as a car) there is not much you can do.

The other thing is for those of you who are complaining you have to learn to live around others, areas and communities are constantly changing and you may as well move to somewhere you find suitable. Why go through those countless minutes looking out of your window wishing that something did get broken so that you can call the police on children who at most only want to have a bit of fun. Did anyone hinder your play when you was young, if not then that's a little hypocritical.

If a ball goes in your garden and you own the property I would enforce a no return policy, if your with the council (renting) then it's not your property and you don't own it and have not as many rights. I used to play football regularly once we lost a ball in a grumpy old goats garden and the owner refused to give the ball back to us it was a good lesson. We learned I not play in such an area or if we did we were much more careful. Maybe that is a solution.