Or is my neighbour a cheeky and interfering bugger?

[TheSpokenNerd]

Because she has just knocked on my front door to ask me "do you know your daughters are on their own out here?"

She had a face like this

My DDs are 7.11 and 4.6. They are playing out the front of our house on the grass.

They have a little blanket to sit on and are threading bits of grass and daisies into a piece of cloth.

My front door and kitchen window is open...I am sitting where..I can moreor less see them....and I can definitely hear them and they and I check in regularly...the house is in a cul de sac...very quiet and both DDs know not to go near the road or they'll never be allowed out there again.

I KNOW it's 8.00pm but it's Saturday and very light too...they're quiet and happy and what's more, DH is working on the fence in the garden and regularly comes onto the driveway to get the tools he as out there..he's painting the panels.

We're not being loud or anything.

I said "Yes thank you I know they're out here" and looked at her blankly...she kind of went "Oh rght...but....oh never mind!" and waked off.

AM I wrong to let them out there in this way?

YANBU, but I wouldn't give it another moments thought. Have a and enjoy the rest of the evening.

I don't see that she has done anything wrong or why you are offended? She just wanted to check that you knew they were there. The older DD is big enough to get out the front door by herself, so seeing them outside with the front door open she's clearly wondered if they had let themselves out whilst you thought they were asleep in bed.

If she had gone on to give you a lecture about letting them out or told you that you were a terrible mother etc then it would be fair enough to call her 'cheeky' and 'interfering' - but she didn't, she just knocked to check that you knew they were there. I don't think there's anything terrible about that and I wouldn't have interpreted that to mean that she thought I was a bad mother.

you have a 4yo playing out at 8pm?

I'd raise an eyebrow at that too.

Why? It's a Saturday. Put your eyebrows back down.

at 'Put your eyebrows back down'

your children, your garden, not her business.

Lol at put your eyebrows back down!

I let Dd and dsd both 4 play on our front as we live in a quiet cul-de-sac too, next doors 4 year old Dd, the 4 year old twins from across the the way and the 4 & 5 year old girls next door to them also play out. I was first to bring the children in tonigjt at 7.30 (wicked mother) the others were still out at 8ish.t

I also think the neighbour was bu, though I am very cynical.