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<blockquote data-quote="JonDough" data-source="post: 2087521" data-attributes="member: 24427"><p>I'm on both sides of the "fence" on this one. I live in a cul de sac like many others...and i really don't mind kids walking through the yard, blah, blah..it's the nature of the beast the way my property is laid out. Now granted i DON'T have sprinkler systems and i sure ain't paying what our city charged for water to water enough to make my lawn a golf green..BUT...it IS my yard.....I ALSO am of the thought that kids and parents need to learn some damn manners and respect these days. The house on one side of me has been bought and sold and rented severalmany times over the 20 years that i've been in my home...and we've had nice folks and absolute scumbags live there. We've had nice folks that had kids that controlled themselves, and we've had some that i don't have a CLUE where THEY were raised because they have gone buck wild and did whatever, whenever they wanted. </p><p> </p><p> We have some right now that their two small (probably 5 and 8) year old daughters literally try to PUSH themselves in our house when we come home. "I just want to see inside" "Can i see your dog" " I know you have snacks" . Now, when you TELL a child, "no honey you can't come in" and they PROCEED TO STILL TRY TO LITERALLY GET AROUND YOU TO TRY TO GET INTO YOUR HOME" Then something's really wrong. We talked to the parents....NICELY....no help. Also, these kids during the summer will be out after dark running all over the neighborhood with NO parental supervision at all. The parents NEVER watch or check on them night or day. Us and the other adults in the circle are the ones that watch out for them just to try to keep them safe. </p><p></p><p> When they ride their bikes in the circle....a car can come and they didn't even KNOW to pull over to the curb for their own safety...they just rideeeee right in front of the car like it's a race to see who can get in front of it first. Several of us have talked to the children and told them what to do when a car comes, etc...and they did it for a few days...then all of a sudden, they stopped doing it and would instead roll right out in front of you and stare..Like in defiance..and no it's not imagined, several of us noticed the same thing.....NOW THAT TO ME MEANS THE PARENTS HAVE TOLD THEM THEY DON'T NEED TO DO ANYTHING ANYONE TOLD THEM.</p><p></p><p> These kids also have some sort of secret language they use to communicate with each other....one will come outside and for 5 solid minutes SCREAM some unintelligeble stuff in the shrillest scream you can imagine...then the other will do the same thing from wherever she's at...it's kinda funny...but annoying at times...but such is the life.</p><p></p><p> They also ride their bikes and stuff in our driveway up next to our vehicles...and YES...we DO have scratches on our cars and trucks from it. We've asked them not to...we've asked the parents to keep them off the vehicles...NICELY..yeah right, no dice there. They run up to the fence just to make the dog bark...they think it's funny....lots of different things. So i can kind of understand the OP's frustration with his deal. Hey...the dude keeps his crap nice...and i WILL tell you...those powerwheels vehicles "can" DESTROY a nice yard...i've been there done that..lol , so the old, "they're just being kids" doesn't cut it. It'ds his yard...if he doesn't mind them being there, then fine, if he doesn't want them riding the vehicles across the yard THEN IT'S HIS YARD...RESPECT THAT.</p><p></p><p> Trying the nice approach is the first thing to do, with kids AND adults....agreed....but i'm here to tell you sometimes it just doesn't work..some peeople just don't give a %%@ about what their kids do, and so the kids don't either. So don't sell the OP short that he's just being a bitchy old man...there may be more to it. AND i don't know about everyone's areas...but where i live kids are NOT like kids were when WE were kids!!!!!! And Parents Sure aren't what they were back then either!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JonDough, post: 2087521, member: 24427"] I'm on both sides of the "fence" on this one. I live in a cul de sac like many others...and i really don't mind kids walking through the yard, blah, blah..it's the nature of the beast the way my property is laid out. Now granted i DON'T have sprinkler systems and i sure ain't paying what our city charged for water to water enough to make my lawn a golf green..BUT...it IS my yard.....I ALSO am of the thought that kids and parents need to learn some damn manners and respect these days. The house on one side of me has been bought and sold and rented severalmany times over the 20 years that i've been in my home...and we've had nice folks and absolute scumbags live there. We've had nice folks that had kids that controlled themselves, and we've had some that i don't have a CLUE where THEY were raised because they have gone buck wild and did whatever, whenever they wanted. We have some right now that their two small (probably 5 and 8) year old daughters literally try to PUSH themselves in our house when we come home. "I just want to see inside" "Can i see your dog" " I know you have snacks" . Now, when you TELL a child, "no honey you can't come in" and they PROCEED TO STILL TRY TO LITERALLY GET AROUND YOU TO TRY TO GET INTO YOUR HOME" Then something's really wrong. We talked to the parents....NICELY....no help. Also, these kids during the summer will be out after dark running all over the neighborhood with NO parental supervision at all. The parents NEVER watch or check on them night or day. Us and the other adults in the circle are the ones that watch out for them just to try to keep them safe. When they ride their bikes in the circle....a car can come and they didn't even KNOW to pull over to the curb for their own safety...they just rideeeee right in front of the car like it's a race to see who can get in front of it first. Several of us have talked to the children and told them what to do when a car comes, etc...and they did it for a few days...then all of a sudden, they stopped doing it and would instead roll right out in front of you and stare..Like in defiance..and no it's not imagined, several of us noticed the same thing.....NOW THAT TO ME MEANS THE PARENTS HAVE TOLD THEM THEY DON'T NEED TO DO ANYTHING ANYONE TOLD THEM. These kids also have some sort of secret language they use to communicate with each other....one will come outside and for 5 solid minutes SCREAM some unintelligeble stuff in the shrillest scream you can imagine...then the other will do the same thing from wherever she's at...it's kinda funny...but annoying at times...but such is the life. They also ride their bikes and stuff in our driveway up next to our vehicles...and YES...we DO have scratches on our cars and trucks from it. We've asked them not to...we've asked the parents to keep them off the vehicles...NICELY..yeah right, no dice there. They run up to the fence just to make the dog bark...they think it's funny....lots of different things. So i can kind of understand the OP's frustration with his deal. Hey...the dude keeps his crap nice...and i WILL tell you...those powerwheels vehicles "can" DESTROY a nice yard...i've been there done that..lol , so the old, "they're just being kids" doesn't cut it. It'ds his yard...if he doesn't mind them being there, then fine, if he doesn't want them riding the vehicles across the yard THEN IT'S HIS YARD...RESPECT THAT. Trying the nice approach is the first thing to do, with kids AND adults....agreed....but i'm here to tell you sometimes it just doesn't work..some peeople just don't give a %%@ about what their kids do, and so the kids don't either. So don't sell the OP short that he's just being a bitchy old man...there may be more to it. AND i don't know about everyone's areas...but where i live kids are NOT like kids were when WE were kids!!!!!! And Parents Sure aren't what they were back then either! [/QUOTE]
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