Can I report little boys?

[Catland]

A new neighbour of ours moved in about 2months ago and before she arrived the children in our neighbourhood just played in the back gardens etc. However this new neighbour lets her son (about 6/7 years old) just play in the front (we live in a cul-de-sac). He became friends with the other neighbours' boys and now they all play (4 of them) outside riding the bikes and scooters from 7am to 7pm. The boys are always screaming and shouting outside and it now has really started getting on my nerves.
I have asked the new neighbour whether she could ask her child to play in his own garden or at least tell them not to scream so much go on my property (only the new neighbour's son rides on my property).
I did tell him not to ride there as it is private property but the new neighbour's thug son just shouted at me "get out of my way b*tch." He said it right in front of my 5 year old daughter as well the cheek of it! I was just shocked that those words could even come out of a 6/7 year old's mouth!
However the neighbour doesn't seem to care and says that they are just being kids. I would understand if they were just outside having fun from time to time but all day everyday well into the evening is just not on.
I have considered reporting to the council as the mother will not do anything and just laughs it off but would the council be able to do anything? Especially as they are just little boys?
I know they are just having fun but they just can not be outside screaming their heads off and going onto other peoples' property. Am I being unreasonable?

Plant a hedge - we grew a large, native species mixed hedge out the front. It prevents kids from kicking balls near the house and gives us privacy.

Well obviously if you have woods and ponds at the bottom of your street then playing in the street isn't going to be the pastime of choice. Newsflash-- many kids don't live in places with easily accessible bucolic wilderness nearby. So they pay in the street, which as a public place, they are as entitled to do as you are to walk down it.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/parenting/4006938-reported-to-social-services-feeling-devastated

Sound familiar?

Plant a really prickly hedge - that’ll keep the little sod off your property.

In suitable weather, a sprinkler covering much of your front lawn is also good (speaking from experience here!).

There really should be a law against lazy, stupid parents who allow their horrible kids to annoy the shit out of other people and excuse it by saying, ‘What do you expect, that’s kids for you,’ etc.
A pox on the lot of them!

Leave a bag of gummy bears out for him.

The artificial sweetener kind...........

You can get a cheap picket fence that will just hammer into the ground. They are about a foot high. It should stop them cycling into your garden. I don't think there is much you can do about the noise though.

Also, kids that talk like that generally don't have the most reasonable parents.

The swearing is ridiculous but not sure how far you'd get telling the Mum/Dad. As for playing out, there's a happy medium between out all day, every day and playing out intermitently. I used to play out from 7yo but it does depend how safe it is where you live and more kids used to play out then (90's). Oh and not everyone has a garden...

Annoying, but not much you can do about it. He shouldn’t be on your property or swearing at you though.

@BluebellsGreenbells

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/parenting/4006938-reported-to-social-services-feeling-devastated

Sound familiar?

I still don't get it when people have back gardens. I live in SE London and always have (different district to where I grew up), same as my husband. At neither of our parents' roads did children play in the street. I have seen it in some places driving through but generally, no. On TV in 'Call the Midwife', the Poplar children played in the streets but they were families who lived in old municipal housing, it was a different world. This is interesting to me, I just know no parents who would allow it. However what the op objects to, quite rightly, is being sworn at and children going on to her property.

Regarding the quote above, I too thought it was familiar but the person who started that thread does not appear to have a badly behaved child who swears at neighbours.

We live in a lovely cul-de-sac with great neighbours, myself and my DS play out in the front for hours on his bike and things.

We now have a set of kids just moved in, 2 lads, they are quite boisterous and fight...a lot and another neighbours grandchild comes, so a few out on a busy day, all are left unattended (ages 5,6,7) bar mine.

Our neighbours are all lovely and don't mind at all, they say it brings the close back to life, but sometimes it's tough on my DS as he isn't as boisterous as the other boys and one of the just 5 year olds had no manners and can upset him, but he will have to learn for nursery anyway.

You are being unreasonable about them playing out, a cul-de-sac is a great location for families with kids. No child should be swearing at you and I would speak to the family each and every time regardless of their uselessness. If anything it may annoy them enough to tell them to stop.
You shouldn't have to but it would put up a small fence, or something to pop their tyres.

Really pleased to hear kids still play out in the street rather be stuck indoors on technology all day, I agree your going a bit ott however being called aBitch is not on

I would bite my lip for now. They've had so much time off school and are letting off steam. Soon they'll be back at school then the nights will draw in. If you get any other verbal abuse thought then I would definitely speak to the mother.

I've lived in my house since 1984 and no kids ever played in the front

In over 30 years, no child has played in the street. 🤣🤣🤣

so I would think you'd see it when viewing a house, most people look, at least at the outside, on a few occasions before buying. I must admit it didn't cross my mind back then.

So you were not always a miserable person then?

You wouldn’t necessarily see kids playing out if you viewed a house a few times. Sometimes the kids here are out all day, sometimes we don’t see them for a few days.

I think if any kids did start playing in the front or street, they'd be very much alone because their neighbours' children wouldn't be allowed so they would get the hint.

Get the hint? 🤣🤣🤣 You’re funny. If I lived there and my kids were younger, they’d play out, regardless of any ‘hints’. Miserable bunch. At least you’re all together, not spreading your miserableness, I suppose. Every cloud and all that.

You can probably report about riding on your property and possibly the swearing.

But stop making a fuss about children being children playing outside making noise, staying within the cul de sac is the safest for them as far as being outside playing, rather than going far out from home. Children shouldn't be confined in their home.

@jessstan2 she made a blistering comment calling out some of the snobbery on this thread, suggested everyone read a bit of Alan Bennett, then called everyone c**ts - it was kind of epic. My response makes no sense whatsoever now her comment has been taken down however!

Thank you, nobody's daughter., it does sound like an epic outburst. I am aways missing things, arriving after all has been tidied up :-). Story of my life.

I can't say I've noticed any snobbery on this thread. Nobody, regardless of their 'status', would be happy at being sworn at and totally disrespected by a child (or an adult).

Nobody's daughter

I'm rather disappointed my comment was removed but I stand by every cunting word of it. I was of the understanding that swearing was permitted so it must have been the criticism of the middle classes which breached the talk guidelines. Incidentally, I was a working class child who played out in the street and swore at disapproving middle class women. Now I'm an adult and have done rather well for myself, especially since I now live in a massive house in the middle of nowhere with no disapproving neighbours! I still swear at them if I have the misfortune to see them.

Yeah right :-).