Letting children chalk public pavement

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Were you ever a child or were you grown, fully-formed as a grumpy adult?

"Chalk all over the pavement"! The indignity!

I would take a photo of the art and play with them for a bit if I know them and their parents, why not. But I like kids, I have a seven years old and I think they are bright and wonderful little humans in most cases.
Once I've said that I also can see why some people can be annoyed by it.

I would have smiled sweetly and answered the kids that it looked great, but in my head I would have been thinking “what an absolute mess, I hope it rains soon.” It would also annoy me that the parents had presumed it’s ok - make a mess outside your own house by all means, but don’t assume everyone else likes chalk all over the pavement.

White chalk is great. I bought some coloured ones and they would only come off with bleach and scrubbing

The resident clearly doesn’t like it so the child should be advised that it’s only ok outside their own home. It’s called being considerate to your neighbours

I loved doing this myself and so did my children, but I always told them to stay in front of our own house. I would not per se love it if other children chalked in front of our house; as a one off no problem, if it were all the time I would probably like it less. Can't really explain why tbh! But I would never, ever have hosed it down, I would have praised their art and would probably have told myself not to be so difficult and just enjoy the art!

'Enjoyment of a tidy pavement'???!!! You win the internet today 👏 . Did you lose your soul by accident or did you purposely crush and burn it?

It really takes a special kind of wanker to object to this. I don't even like children and I'm very precious about keeping our house clean and Insta-perfect but even I couldn't complain about children's chalk drawings not on my own property. Isn't children playing innocent games outside the exact thing we're all supposed to be encouraging in order to reverse the destruction of our society?

Your neighbours (and certain posters on here) are about as miserable as it gets, but I think this is a case of 'when someone shows you who they are, believe them'. Clearly people to be avoided and no doubt the same kind of people who will moan about how awful young people are today and how there's no respect anymore as they age and want help bringing in their shopping/bins/whatever and no-one is interested in helping them because they are FUCKNG MEAN OLD BASTARDS. Let's hope they never need a parcel taking in or for a neighbour to keep an eye on their empty property while they're away.

I let my GC do it on the drive and pavement in front of the house - and on the extrerior walls of the house - like you said it rains a lot and it washes away eventually. I make sure they keep it in front of our house though. Yes it rains but it doesn't wash it all away and I've seen the state of my floors when the dogs has walked it in, dry and even worse wet, it's like paint

Graffiti 🤣

Greeting about entitled young people when full grown adults are banging about THEIR PROPERTY as if a public pavement outside belongs to them and God fucking forbid a child even looks at it 😂

On front of my house yes possibly and I’d clean it once they were done. Not in front of anyone else’s.

Also, I bet it would be the same miseryguts that complains that all kids are online these days and don’t know how to entertain themselves without a screen.

Out of control children….. 5 year olds chalking on a pavement?

Yes m, luckily miserable people are the minority!

I’m FURIOUS on your behalf. What a horrible, miserable person.

OF COURSE your lovely children should have fun playing with chalks on the pavement. It’s a simple, ancient little pleasure that countless other kids before them have enjoyed.

Perhaps your neighbour has an issue with small children making sandcastles on the beach too? Little chalk drawings are about as offensive and permanent as that.

I’m really sorry that you’ve had this experience.

No, I wouldn't allow my children to do this anywhere but on my own property, out of respect for my neighbours. I remember years ago, one family beside us who prided themselves on a neat & tidy exterior, wouldn't let their children chalk outside their house, but allowed them to do it everywhere else - & I'm not talking about a few small doodles, it was around the whole block - so cheeky!

I don't believe for a second that the "problem children" of our society are the ones drawing rainbows in chalk on the pavement 😂

No the people that moan about it are the entitled ones.
Children drawing on a footpath with chalk is hardly out of control.
Were you a child once? What did you do for fun?

I’m quite the curmudgeon for child-related issues, but even I think this is fine! Give it five minutes and the rain will wash it away!

Many years ago when kids still played in streets of terraced houses my friends and I wrote with chalk on the pavement when playing a game called hopscotch. In those days many women took great pride in not only washing their front step but also the entire pavement in front of their house. Unfortunately my pals and I had not taken this into account and simply wrote our names in coloured chalk on various flags.

The neighbour complained to my mother who directed me to get a bucket of water and a scrubbing brush and remove all the marks in pink chalk which I had made. Later the neighbour again knocked at our door and complained to my mother that there were still chalk marks on her "front". My mother told her that "My daughter used pink chalk. I have punished her for what she did but I am not going to punish her for what her friends did. You are going to have to speak to the parents of the other children." When the neighbour asked for the names of the other kids she was told "I am not a snitch" and had the door closed in her face.

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It's just chalk on a footpath for goodness sake what is the big deal. What's wrong with people these days all so bloody rude, miserable and entitled.
As far as I'm concerned those children are spreading a bit of joy and adding a bit of colour to the world just what we need to brighter up our days.
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Where I used to live we held a week long Arts Festival and for one of the weekends, our street was closed to traffic, so children could chalk art onto the road. One of th best bits of the week and our local shops said that sales of chalk always went up afterwards. It is ephemeral and disappears at the first shower... how sad that your neighbours @RainbowRanger29 could not enjoy it... you would be very welcome to come and chalk in my current road!

Your neighbour needs to lighten up

It an issue. But as with everything (especially anything related to children), people can make an issue out of it.
Ignore them.