to throw water on the 7 year old that is screaming outside my house?

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mymummyisasquarehead · 04/05/2011 21:23

Okay, so I wouldn't actually throw water on him, but the child and his older sibling/cousins roam the streets until all hours.

I live in a close and the front gardens all face out with no fences around them. Bedrooms are at the front so it is hard to get my son to sleep with all the noise sometimes.

No biggie in comparison to some I know, but the child was sitting on my front step shouting!!! Grr!!!!

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Hassled · 04/05/2011 21:25

Go and tell him he's being too noisy. Do it with a charming smile but maintain a glint of steel in the eyes. Scare the shit out of him, in other words, but in a way that he can't quantify. He won't be back.

peggotty · 04/05/2011 21:26

Can you either go out and tell them to bog off go home, or speak to the parents. Are you in scotland by any chance?

usualsuspect · 04/05/2011 21:26

just tell them to move

BelleDameSansMerci · 04/05/2011 21:26

YANBU in my opinion... I sometimes suffer the same (when neighbour's children have their friends over - her children are actually very quiet) and it's so bloody annoying.

barbiebostock · 04/05/2011 21:29

Do you know who this lad is? could you approach his parents in the hope that they remember what its like trying to get a baby/child to sleep?! If they don't seem receptive, I would probably speak to your local Police Community Support Officer as if its really bad it could be classed as anti social behaviour (extreme i know but if its causing you constant stress its best to nip it in the bud)

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mymummyisasquarehead · 04/05/2011 21:31

I'm in Devon peggotty.

Hassled - loving your style!! ;-)

Child has now moved. His dad has just come back from the shop with a collection of tinnies, so i'm guessing now isn't the best time to approach him. He is generally a pretty nice bloke, but his discipline is wholly ineffective and promises that this won't happen again are broken quite quickly!

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Ninx · 04/05/2011 21:32

"Do it with a charming smile but maintain a glint of steel in the eyes. Scare the shit out of him, in other words, but in a way that he can't quantify"

Hassled that is fantastic advice. For all marital parenting occasions

Shame it isn't October. I would purchase one of those faux werewolf hands and stick it through the letterbox at an opportune moment.

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mymummyisasquarehead · 04/05/2011 21:43

Ninx - how much fun would that be?! heehee (or AIBU?!) lol

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