Letting children chalk public pavement

Were the children of the 80s also entitled and out of control? Chalk on pavements is far from a recent development...

I think there's no problem them doing it, and also no problem someone who doesn't like it washing it away. None of you owns the pavement.

Well it's the Met that told us the have to investigate all and every crime and arrest every perpetrator

Although I concur that generally, ignoring the police does seem the way forward these days.

Not where I live.

Ignore the miserable so and so, OP.

How mean of them. Must be very miserable people.
Our DC and neighbours DC regularly do chalk on the paths around our houses and they've only ever had positive comments. Multiple neighbours have stopped to chat to them and complimented their pictures or asked what they're drawing.
Even if they're very precious about their house looking tidy they could've just said "can you not do it on the path infront of our house in future" and waited until they'd gone inside to wash it away!

Joyless person. We did the same in the 1980s and the pavements on the new build estate were delightfully new black asphalt which made a very good blackboard!

I'd be sorely tempted to go and draw a "male member" as my CDT teacher used to say and an arrow pointing to his house.

I really wouldn't rely on what the police did or didn't do during COVID as evidence it's criminal damage. In this case the Met said
"officers would be “reminded about applying common sense and discretion where appropriate in these exceptional times.” and no fine was issued.

AwwI love seeing this kind of thing. I’ve let my children do it when younger and we also had a neighbour complain.

I see no harm to be honest. I’m sure the pictures were not rude or offensive and actually, considering how many people live alone some artwork might brighten their day and provide a talking point……Get Britain Talking!!

Rather spiteful of that person who washed it away……..it would have been gone in the first shower of rain anyway, why waste water on it? Just mean spirited IMO.

How ridiculous. Some people seem to pride themselves on being joyless. This is up there with a man who took issue with my kids collecting conkers outside his house (on the verge, NOT in his front garden). He even got his lawn mower out and started shredding the conkers with it so the kids couldn't have them. I wonder if he broke his lawn mower? We'd recently watched Peter Rabbit so he's known forever as "Mr MacGregor" in our family.

It’s chalk for goodness sake. What harm have they done? When we were kids in the late 1970s and bear in mind we lived in a very neat, respectful cul-de-sac in a nice area on the outskirts of Manchester. I remember once we chalked in bright colours all over the neighbours’ drives as well as our own. My mum was horrified what we had done and knocked on the doors to apologised to them but I think most just thought it was funny. 🤣

Wouldn’t bother me in the slightest (in fact some of my neighbours did this with their children during Covid and I thought it was quite sweet to see the drawings when I came home - one of the neighbours was a nursery nurse and drew some recognisable children’s characters such as peppa pig etc) but only thing I can think of is perhaps your neighbour was worried about tracking chalk from the pavement into his garden and into his house. Or perhaps he’s just the miserable type who thinks children should only play silently and virtually invisibly. Does he often appear to show annoyance when children are playing outside? Or maybe he was having photos taken to list his home for sale. We don’t know. Rude of him to do it in front of the children and without answering them, but also at the same time, would perhaps be better if the children are doing something with potential to impact on others such as this, if they did restrict it to outside their own and those neighbours who are pro- children

Well I love a good rant as much as the next person but this is so totally pointless, I wouldnt even bother.

But you do you... 🙄

You hardly ever see it these days. I never see kids drawing in chalk or playing hopscotch or with skipping ropes etc. Everything is virtual.

What were they drawing? A bunch of Palestinian flags?

If it means that DT’s have fun without causing any damage or danger to themselves or others I’m happy to be one of ThOSE parents.

Criminal damage, I believe

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/coronavirus-bakery-worker-threatened-fine-chalk-DWycKB_2/

Kids are out of control if they draw with chalk on pavements?

I’d heard it all now! Hilarious 🤣

I’m quite an old-school, firm parent, who tends to be more strict than the other parents I know, especially on consideration for others and manners, and even I think the neighbours are miserable twats.

But you see, I’d also judge their behaviour, not just the children’s. And I’d judge the neighbours’ behaviour as falling well short of the minimum standard I’d expect to see from my child. Because I expect my child to respond when addressed, and consider the feelings of others as a bare minimum. Neither of which the joyless neighbours felt they needed to trouble themselves with.

I would be delighted to see kids out being kids

The nieghbour needs an attitude transplant and should apologise to the children for being offensive.

The kids are innocent.

Your neighbour was just being a grump

I guess you could draw a boundary for them - in chalk!

I love colourful pavement chalks -but a friend of mines DC chalked all over their driveway once and then walked it all over her cream hallway carpet when they came in! It hoovered up fine from what I remember, but if im being charitable, maybe that was miserly neighbours concern?

Yes! It would be so tempting!

Every day on this forum, I see the reason we have an epidemic of entitled and out-of-control children. There are zero boundaries anymore, and anyone who dares to put a boundary in place, gets told they are ‘miserable’.
Its madness to me, but clearly we are in the minority.