To think it's OK for DD2 to walk on steps up to a front door when they're on the pavement?

[AgentZigzag]

When DD2's (2.5) walking along the pavement I walk with the pushchair beside her to hem her in, so she always walks next to any houses we're going past.

There are quite a few houses on a hill where we live that have slabs of stone going down from their front doors straight on to the pavement, and she climbs up over them (very slow going ).

I've always had a bit of a guilt trip going on (not so much that I stop her climbing on them like ), mostly because I know how possessive some people can get about their property, but the fact they're actually on a pavement has balanced it out.

For some reason I don't let DD1 who's 11 go on them, and I don't let either of them go on peoples walls along the road, so I'm not letting them be hooligans or anything

So maybe DD2s age comes into it a bit and she's so cute she can get away with it it'd be different if she was older.

Do you think the people whose houses the steps belong to would give a shit?

(picture of a couple of houses with the kind of steps I'm talking about on my profile)

the steps on your profile pic are okay for her to go over i think, at first i was picturing proper steps like on victorian houses, and you letting her run up them to peoples front doors! which would be quite u! those are fair game i would say, the home owner would have to be quite miserable to make an issue out of it

I think that's totally fine. I'm sure the people don't mind. I definitely wouldn't.

YANBU - different if she was peering in their windows, but clambering over the first step is not really an invasion of privacy (and I am one of those people who gets twitchy at the thought of same...).

Wouldn't bother me a bit (and I am precious about stuff like that!) let her enjoy!

can't see nay reason why she would need to

Thank you

I really couldn't judge one way or t'other, I did get the feeling from someone who drew up in a car and went into one of the houses DD was on the step of a few seconds earlier, that they were a bit catsbum mouth about it.

But I have paranoia tendencies so could have misread it

Maybe they spotted how dirty their step, window or door was!!!

Some of them are shocking tbf Wolfie, not been washed or seen a new pair of curtains since at least the middle of the last century

its traditional. we used to jump over the little walls between terraced houses - which makes me wonder where the walls have gone, as the houses are still there... must check that out, tomorrow. the house and terrace where my sunday school teacher lived had those walls. her front door is still there but the wall might have gone. if not, i'll jump on it in the morning.

'if not, i'll jump on it in the morning.'

You're a star lovebun, and may you feel the adult cares you have in your life now lift from your shoulders

I wish I could be there to witness it and wonder how much you could have had to drink that early in the morning

DD1 always jumped on the doorsteps that stick into the pavement. So long as she didn't linked peer in windows or attract attention I gave up worrying.

Clearly now she's 14 not 4 I might scowl.

I still walk on Walls occasionally.

'I still walk on Walls occasionally.'

I think I'm too repressed, I need to live a little!

I'm not decided on whether I'm ashamed or not that I sometimes take the opportunity to stare take a peek into the houses windows, but I only do it when I've got my sunglasses on which is all the time