Do you allow children to walk along neighbours' low garden walls?

[JohnnyFedora]

Do you let your kids walk on people's walls, like their low garden walls?
I don't, my kids are allowed on "public" walls and stuff, but I think it's a bit disrespectful to have them do it on private property.

Unfortunately I've learned to be that way.

Bonus points for the walls that have the sort of diagonal bricks cemented on top for extra challenge.

I did accidentally once when very young, as I literally didn't know any different. But my parents were very good at teaching us boundaries, so I never did it again.

No, i didn't let my son do it when he was young. It's not the fact it's "just a wall". It's boundaries. Where does it end, then? Our last house, the whole group of neighbourhood kids would use my garden to congregate. No idea why, my partner and I have no kids of our own. And yes, they damaged our wall. And no the parents didn't give a toss.

Can you sue someone if you allowed your child to trespass on their property?
I think the owner of the wall would need to be advertising it as activity open to the public for anyone to have a chance of a claim.

I don't let mine do it (and they would love to, and there are a lot of low garden walls around us, so it was quite a constant topic of conversation when they were toddlers!). It's important to me that they learn to respect other people's things.

No but there have been times when I have chosen peace over violence and let them, I’m afraid.

No
Its private property

I didn't ever let mine do it to other people's houses, but when I lived in a house for a few years with low front walls, I always liked seeing other people's children walking on them (I was very close to a primary school). For my own DC, it was only the walls of public spaces that I would allow.

Yes, it’s just a small wall. Let them be kids.

Jesus Christ are people really so fucking miserable that they'd be pissed off at a toddler walking along a fucking wall? Wow

Not walls in general, just their garden wall maybe 🤷‍♀️

Yes, I find mumsnet really weird on this issue. Totally normal childhood experience since walls have existed and I've never seen anyone in real life tell their child to get off a wall. Of all the anti social behaviour I witness from children I really couldn't care less about this one.

Which is great, but you made out that you were talking about walking in walls in general....

Eh? It’s literally in the thread title. I don’t need to reiterate.

No, not people's private garden walls. Yes to public ones, like you.

But I feel like a naggy killjoy every time I stop them.

so let them do it fgs!

No. It is not a public wall. And part of someone’s property.

depends on the wall. and the house, and the kid.

I don't but I remember my mum doing this with me as a kid

This is another of these weird MN things, hotly debated, like shoes in the house, although it doesn’t appear so often as that one.

I walked on walls as a child, I remember it fondly. I would probably discourage walking on private walls, though.

Public walls yes. Private garden walls no.

I also don’t expect people who are sitting on a wall to get up to let my dc pass 🙄, but that’s a whole different thread.

Ah Mumsnet! It's either 'kids these days are so entitled and have no boundaries' or when a parent teaches their child to respect someone else's property even though it's not as much fun as the alternative and it's 'just let them do it'

Having lived somewhere where people would regularly moan on the street WhatsApp about kids stepping even one toe or wobbling their bike onto their drives/lawns/walls I'll just crack on my way but thanks for the input!

Do people who let their DC walk on walls do you let them walk through the gardens too or play on other people’s drives?

No I’d never let them do this, but weirdly I like seeing kids walking along my walls with their parents 😂

No