to be annoyed with big kids playing in little kids playground ???

yes but 9 year olds on a park is fine imo. 16 yo's all sitting on the slide however annoys me. if they were sat on the bench or the grass fine, but why the slide?

Is it the new fashion to wear your hoodie over your face?

What happened to the emo's?

kids don't bother me at the park but parents who gather and drink lager then let their doberman run riot do

I feel sorry for bigger kids and teenagers, they are just not welcome anywhere.

What annoys me even more is the really big kids who set fire to one of the two toddler swings in our park last night and melted the rubber seat.
The remaining swing is too low for dd so her feet drag on the ground

thing that annoys me is our park states it is for under 12s.

A bit yeah...i can see your point of view though don't get me wrong...but they are just kids
Don't believe there is an age limit to swinging on a swing..or climbing on stuff is there...they have just as much right to use the park and it's play equipment
They are just big kids ...our little ones will be the bigguns one day....they aren't some alien species.
I can remember when ds was 1 (and pfb of course) that 3 year olds were big kids who should know better than to knock into my baby. Of course...by the time he was 3 i realised that he didn't.
Not saying you shouldn't have got an apology btw.

That's funny nappyaddict 'cos I'm quite old and used to think they'd be rude to me for that very reason!

had the exact same problem yesterday evening. walked to a lovely park 10 minutes from my house. hadn't thought that because it was 6 o clock it would be full of 16 year olds. i was with my friend and she said, let's go to a different park. so we drove to a park ten minutes away instead of going to the one ten minutes walk away so we could escape them. i wouldn't have been brave enough to ask them to get off. i think i get more intimidated cos some of them probably weren't that much younger than me.

Seriously though Ash, is there any way of getting together with other residents to talk about this - strength in numbers. The police will pay more attention to a group of residents acting together than to individual complaints. Your post came after mine, I really don't want to downplay the sort of thing you're experiencing.

Fair does Ash - can't help you with that sort !!

Londonmamma well said

ah well i must have imagined them saying "fuck you ya daft slut" when i'm dripping with blood from my eye then! maybe i should have asked them politely not to throw stones into MY garden aiming for my kids and eye-oops I mean I

The teenagers are just a few years on from your own DCs. People will be saying the same about yours as they get bigger! They are NOT a different species and as many on here have pointed out, if you smile and talk to them nicely they are generally cooperative. They may even be nice to your D.C. - I've had experiences where tough looking teenagers have happily and caringly included my D.C in a football game. Please don't assume that they are all bad, dangerous. They KNOW it's a children's park and if you ask them nicely they'll happily let your little ones on the swings etc. - go on, try it. Their mums might even be MNers.

I find this pretty annoying too.
I took my boys to the park the other day & it was just full of teenagers hanging out on all the equipment.

we have just had a new park built on the playing field that my house backs on to.it has caused us nothing but trouble in the few weeks it has been ther.as i speak they are effing and blinding and throwing things at the fence,they are not kids they are teens.
they leave their beer cans,smashed glass bottles and pizza boxes all over the place and i can tell it is going to get worse in the summer with the light nights.

i was sat out in my garden the other day when a huge stone was lobbed at me,cutting my face about 1cm away from my eye.the police do not give a stuff.

oh I don't mind them. 99 times out of a hundred, they will just make room for the littler children if you ask them politely.
I always call them gentlemen .
they are just part of the community

Don't think you're a wuss nally - I was the same when I had little ones - it's only now that I have teenagers that I realise they are human really (honest) & if I see a group, then usually either I've known some of them from school, or DD has been out with at least one of them!

I had to ask two walloping great teenage girls to get off the babies' slide in our park over the weekend - they were going up and down the sloping ramp in their wheelie shoes and knocking the toddlers over.

They did go, but not before giving me a very nasty look... I wouldn't mind, but they have their own playground 5 foot away - what's the attraction to the tiny baby stuff?

nally..I really can see where you are coming from...with some of the Kids ehre, I will just leave a park, too...with others it's seems alright...going purely by instinct there, lol!
Like I said, they can be very intimidating, even if they are harmless, because they all try to be as loudmouthed as possible,and show off....