To think it's rude for a ten year old boy to keep staring into my front room.

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We have a very small front garden with our car parked in it, sitting in the living room with my children and one of my neighbours children keeps peering around our car and staring in our house, Was I being Unreasonable to ask him to stop and say that it was rude.

I do live in a country where every looks in your window as they walk by, I am used to that but someone coming every couple of minutes and walking away when I make eye contact is just strange.

Either say something, stare back or wave or draw the curtains. That would annoy me too!

You need to go out and tell him straight. If he continues to do it set a dog on him then tell his mother (if you know who she is.)

There was a case recently (well in alst decade) where a child who did this got an ASBO.

Bit sad really given he had autism. But hey set a dog on him why not.

Ask him what it is he's looking for, and when he says 'nothing' which he probably will, then tell him to stop looking in/at your house/windows then.

And if that doesn't stop him, tell his mother.

Is it Holland? I couldn't get used to being stared at through windows.

YANBU.

Mrsterry that's a good guess, I did tell him it was very rude, and he has now stopped although still hanging around outside our house.

I doubt telling his parents would do any good, children here seem to get away with murder.

For me, the obvious answer would be net curtains.

Rule we have frosted glass at the bottom of our window wich gives some privacy, we rent so I don't think I would want to put net curtains up not sure if you can even buy them here.
If you don't have your curtains open so people can see in Dutch people think you are weird or hiding something.

There's no need for verbal aggression or rudeness. He's ten. Ask him firmly to stop staring in your window.

He's staring in your window, not committing murder

I knew it was Holland. The parents probably wouldn't think it was rude or odd for him to be doing this. Everyone has a good nose in other people's houses.

Jamie when did I say I was verbally agressive, I asked him to stop staring in my window and said that it was rude, I was not agressive or rude to him.

You can definitely buy net curtains in Holland (am Dutch), it's called 'vitrage' [vee-TRA-zyuh]. And although we're used to having open curtains etc and no one is too bothered about people seeing in, that boy's behaviour is definitely also rude by Dutch standards, so YANBU!

Weird. Passive aggressive sign on the window saying "Go away please?"

Don't worry about looking weird in front of the neighbours, if your foreign to them, they'll think you weird anyway, buy some net curtains and enjoy your privacy.

christ allmighty hes 10 years old,perhaps he thinks your intresting/smilie/nice/enjoy hide and seek.

Get a sign that says "If you can read this you're too close to my house so move back piss off please".

10 isn't 5. He is old enough to be told.

Sock considering how rude he was earlier to my dd 4 who was carry her doll down the street and made fun of her, (luckily she was oblivious) I don't think he was looking at me because he thinks I am nice.

why not invite him for a drink and biscuit,

he might just be curious, be friendly and he might change his behaviour towards you,

Once he finds out you are just as normal boring as anyone else he might find a better way to spend his time.

was he actually rude or did he just look at her?

genuine question seen as you feel hes rude by looking at you.

if there is more to it than just looking then perhaps that info may have made me give a different answer to your op.

I should move to Holland, I am soooo nosy.

I didn't say you were. Others sound a bit arsey

also you talked about getting away with murder, which is exaggerating a bit considering we're talking about a boy looking in a window

Oh, and he might be "strange" because he has some kind of Learning Disability.

The way some people talk about children who are older than their own seems to imply a lack of appreciation of the fact that they are still children

Perhaps he knows you are British and wants to practise his English but is too shy to ask. I think they begin foreign languages on the continent in primary school.