Letting children chalk public pavement

I have no issue with this. Our neighbours kids do it sometimes - I think it’s sweet. It’s when they get a bit older and draw pictures of willies certain neighbours get a bit upset, lol

I can only think she hates children, or life itself.

I love to see chalk on the pavement. That neighbour sounds like a real meanie!

I'd be chalking every day outside their house, until they actually spoke up about it. I don't do passive aggressive.

But chalking outside their house rather than speak with them in the first place, WOULD be passive aggressive.

I love seeing chalk on the pavements - especially a hopscotch! I even have a go myself and I'm 50!! Totally harmless. The brighter the better as well.

You let them draw outside other peoples houses? Yeah you’re wrong there. Why couldn’t they draw in your garden?

It’s cute but the only thing I’ll say is it can be walked into houses if people can’t avoid it. But I’m sure they could have walked around it so shouldn’t be an issue

Not true and what have my parents got to do with my opinion?? I just don’t think kids should be allowed to deface a public space.

A harmless fun activity which as you say would get washed away.

I love street art on pavements and we used to draw hopscotch etc when I was a kid.

neighbour is being grumpy and unreasonable.

Can we stop calling anyone who doesn’t want to pander to children’s whims as joyless and grumpy. “It’s just kids playing” is a euphemism for “my kids can do whatever they like”. If a kid drew a lovely rainbow on the path outside my house, sure, it might be nice, but if they are anything like the 5/6 year olds who do it on parts of our estate, it isn’t lovely and joyful, it looks (obviously) like the scribbles of a 5/6 year old. It’s also not brilliant environmentally. I wouldn’t stop anyone doing it or wash it off, but if someone doesn’t want it outside their house, it doesn’t make them joyless. These are public property and I’d love to know at what point kids are old enough to understand you can’t just draw on public property.

I was called joyless because I stopped some kids climbing a tree outside my house. I have nothing against kids climbing proper trees, but this one is a flimsy piece of crap that is already at a 45 degree angle and part of their climbing it involves pulling it down so they can clamber on to it, and ripping off smaller branches to hit each other with. I also had an issue with kids playing football on a grass bit across from my house, despite there being a perfectly good, purpose built ball pitch for kids about 3 minutes away. Every day there were footballs flying into our front garden, hitting the cars etc, lads running about screaming at each other. We eventually had the factor put up some “no ball game” signs and were accused of being grumpy and not liking kids. On the contrary, now that the girls on the estate are back doing their gymnastics and TikTok dances on it, that brings me great joy. Not many places for them to do that round here.

Just because others don’t want to indulge your children, that doesn’t make them joyless.

There are so many other worse things they could be doing! I love seeing kids being creative.

I’m not being snide, I’m genuinely asking - why? If it’s the pavement outside your house, eg public land, not your actual garden path?

I wouldn't bother me at all. As for political graffiti, I did see some in 2022 - two little girls chalked "Putin is a poo" on the pavement outside their own house. Shocking behaviour!

I’ve already said I don’t mind chalk on pavements.

They sound very grumpy.

Sorry but this would piss me off outside of my house too. Sorry, but you asked. Do you have paths in your own garden. If so, let them do it there.

I'd be sending my kids to do it every day after that 😆

I wouldn’t mind kids chalking, it washes away quite easily but equally I would have told my child before they started to chalk to only draw in our garden and outside our house.

I’m usually a miserable git and most things annoy me.
This is not one of them!! I think it’s lovely. Your neighbours are toads 🐸 😂

Absolute OTT reaction from your neighbour! I always chalked on the pavements when I was little, and so did my DDs when they weren't too cool for that. Love seeing chalk art on the street!

I’m going to go against the tide. Chalk outside their own house is fine, but frankly it’s a bit entitled to go around chalking outside other peoples houses.

I know it washes away and I certainly wouldn’t have washed it away infront of them, but I’d have been inwardly a bit annoyed and wondered why the parents couldn’t have had a bit more control over where the kids played.

Meh it was a bit of chalk,

What a miserable shit your neighbour is

My STBX moaned when the children inc ours chalked on the private lane outside our home. One of the many reasons I am
glad we have split. He’s a miserable bastard.