Neighbours kids keep looking over our fence

Am I the only one thinking this thread is slightly absurd? A little girl is peering into your garden. If it really is a big deal, just tell her not to in a firm but kind way.

if it was a boy looking over the fence i bet this would be your answer.

its not a choice, you can have neither

Just speak to the parents.
Please don't take an easter egg as someone suggested. She will think that you're her friends, and that if she continues to be nosy she'll get another one!

Presumably an electric fence would be frowned upon on here 😉 so personally I would extend the fence with trellis and attach something quick growing and spikes.

They do grow out of it eventually, my neighbours kids were always nosing and throwing their rubbish over as well as throwing stones at my dog.

I guess you can try ɓlocking the spot she looks over with something? But try her parents first .

She has decided to make a game of it. At this point, I'd say to her "Please stop looking over our fence because you are scaring out dog!" If that doesn't make her stop, then for sure I would talk to the parents, specifically saying that it is distressing your dog, and nothing more. (They are likely to be highly defensive of their child in this case!)

I'm not a child person like OP but I would far rather live next to and engage with a curious friendly one than have loud inconsiderate grown ups

Encouraged by her parents, within the boundaries of her own property, certainly.
As if that’s for op to take on 😆

I'm voting for an accidental garden hose slip

Why should it be encouraged when it’s making someone else uncomfortable, the home owner and the dog. It needs to be stopped.

You need to speak to her parents, not a 5yr old. Just say it sets your dog off and you can’t relax in your own garden. They will need to move whatever she is standing on.

Young children are curious about things, and this should be encouraged.
At her age she isn't being intrusive, there is obviously something she finds fascinating or interesting. Perhaps your dog? Or intrigued by her grumpy neighbour.

If you ask her not to do it and she still does, I’d put a trellis on top, and grow a rampant climber all over it.

That was the only way an ex colleague managed to stop a neighbour appearing and wanting to natter over the fence virtually every time she went into the garden. Apparently she would be watching almost non stop from her kitchen window to see when ex colleague ventured out!

We had this a few years ago with neighbours’ young son standing on something to peer over the fence.
He soon got bored of it.
This might just be a problem that resolves itself, as children soon get fed up of doing certain things.

The problem these days are some parents absolutely refuse to discipline their kids.

You should get a set of those rubber spikes you can put on the top of your fence to deter birds.

We had so much of this in our last house. I was so happy to leave. Huge gang of 4-6 year old girls would come up to the living room window (so standing in my front garden) and would all peer in. Honestly, nothing at all worked. It was a nightmare as their parents sided with the kids.

Exactly this.

We had to do something similar about 10 years ago when the neighbours children were similarly being a nuisance. Neighbours initially tried to say they weren't doing that, but then I started asking them to please turn around whenever they did it when their parents were outside, too. Loudly. It then stopped.

Looking forward to the upcoming thread on here:

"my neighbours, who hate kids & have a loud dog, saw my daughter (neuro diverse, obviously) looking over the fence and asked her stop looking, but she is so curious & interested about the world i feel this has crushed her inquisitive spirit, should i call the police?"

@deserthighway *What I would have done was to have gone round with an easter egg as a friendly gesture and when i handed it over to the parents I would have mentioned about the fence issue.
*That's encouraging her.

if i look over the fence NDN will give me chocolate.

Speak to your neighbours and 'apologise' for your barking dog who wouldn't bark unless provoked by their daughter peering over your fence

Imagine saying "hello can I help you" to a five year old! 😂 I would just chat to her and then say that it was maybe not safe for her to be doing that (if she is standing on something) and it makes the dog bark. But then I seem to be unique among childfree people on here in that I actually quite like children and know how to deal with them (thanks to a horde of nieces and nephews!).

Kids don't really learn at the first 'please dont'. My guess the dog will get bored first.

Gosh we had this! I’m so glad we moved from the old house. It was a boy around 11 and his sister around 8 at the time. I had my own kids and always thought it was so rude as I wouldn’t allow my kids to do the same. The mother actually encouraged it and I would hear her saying “are you spying on the neighbours? What can you see”. I wrote about it so much under a different username I was at my wits end with them. The only thing that worked was getting a higher fence (it was our fence side so not sure if this would work for you). There’s no talking to people that allow their kids unsupervised in the garden as they wouldn’t be the type to explain concept of boundaries. On another note I’m so glad people are understanding and seem to be with you on this thread as I was often told on mumsnet that I should put up with it as they are kids!

Just remembered the dad would bounce on trampoline and shout over hello to me and my kids! 😂

I am so glad we moved I hated summer because of them

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