AIBU? Kid's kicking rotting apples in a field / parent had a right go

Ah come on, you can hope all you like but kids are allowed to play in public, even big kids. If you need peace and quiet you need to go somewhere private or at least somewhere more remote.

It sounds like rowdy behaviour, perhaps the woman had been hoping for some peace and quiet.

Try hitting a big oak tree with a small stick, let me know if you manage to make a mark. The stick will break first. He wasn't swiping down saplings.

Sorry to hear this. I’m glad your boys were able to let off some steam and play in nature. There’s an attitude in this country that it’s an adult’s world and children shouldn’t be anywhere but school, home or some organised activity. I remember seeing a mum shouting at her children for running around in a field this summer. Push back against it (it probably comes from the Victorians!)

Can’t abide cruelty against fruit.

Complete non issue. I’d probably have laughed tbh.

Goldensprat

Someone once had a go at me for letting my child hit a tree trunk with a stick (in a pretend battle). He wasn't doing the slightest bit of harm to the tree or anyone. Some people just don't like children and think they should behave like smaller adults.

how is hitting a tree not damaging it? I think my issue is that all the examples give, they’re so destructive- so you have the kids kicking the apples, you’re not there when they’re teens in town kicking litter or stones around. We say boys will be boys but that’s been proven to be crap now because letting boys off being destructive can lead to asshole teenage and adult behaviour

Did you not realise that its apples? They are organic and wont harm the environment

So we should send the rotting, maggoty, half squirrel eaten, mud covered stinking apples to the poor?

But nobody was going to eat rotten apples off the floor!! Apart from animals perhaps but they will still eat them after being kicked around

I have two brothers and this is the kind of thing I can imagine them doing when they were the same age as your boys! No harm done at all. The apples were already on the ground rotting and nobody was going to come and pick them up so it’s not like they won’t be a mushy mess in a few weeks anyway.
Some people just have a problem with teenagers especially boys.

I wouldn’t have been impressed to see two teenage boys kicking and stomping fruit on the floor. It’s just so unnecessary to make such a mess of an area that other people and animals want to use. It’s just destruction for the sake of it. I wouldn’t have said anything to them or you but can completely understand why someone did.

What, at the edge of a big field? Why the hell not?

YABU and you know it. If nothing else you shouldn’t be “having a kick about” there.

What has kicking a few fallen apples around got to do with people in faraway counties not having a clean water supply?
Should we be gathering the apples up and shipping them over there?
The apples are unlikely to be fit for human consumption anyway, they will be full of maggots 🙄

Boy mum here, exhausted.com - i dont see any harm in it as long as they arent harming anyone else.

Come over to me OP - I have a gazillion rotting apples that need kicking in the field for the sheep .. you would be exceptionally welcome . The complainer knows nothing about living in the country .. we spend our late summer /autumn kicking rotten apples …

It upsets me to see people doing something like this with food and drink. Spewing champagne from bottles at motor racing, bathing in baked beans " for charity" kicking apples, when there are peopleall over the world who are hungry and having to walk miles for clean water. Strikes me as obscene

Some people just pick at anything where kids are concerned.

There is absolutely no problem whatsoever with what they were doing.

For future ref I find just looking at people blankly and uninterested is a good way of handling it when they are making an utter tit of themselves.

Another Mumsnet thread where I realise that there are some completely batshit people out there! I can’t believe some of the replies.
OP your kids did nothing wrong at all. But of course you know that!

YANBU

She sounds batshit.

I would have told her to fuck off and mind her own business.

Your boys weren’t doing anything wrong.

She was being a knobhead for the sake of it. Let kids be kids, all this sniffy ‘they’re a bit old for that’ attitude is sad. Better kicking some rotten apples about and affecting literally no one than staring at phones!

Not your field and not your apples. If you nd yours can't behave in the countryside perhaps you should stay in the town.

Why is it more relaxing for other people if they were playing with a football, as you suggested, rather than fruit? Personally, I find the sound of a football being kicked repeatedly really quite annoying (not that I'd ask anyone to stop doing this of course).