AIBU Kids on our Driveway

[JerseySpud]

I probably am but here goes.

We live on a housing estate (would be council in the uk) and whilst there is a park for the kids of the estate to play on they have decided that they like playing football right in front of our driveway.

Fine. But whats not fine is they run up and down it and then use our cars as goals. I've tried to ask them nicely not to do it as mine in particular is getting scratched because of it. But they don't seem to care, wait for me to go back into the house, and then carry on.

The driveway is at the back of the house, we go through the back garden to get to it so i can't see it all the time. But they disturb DD2 who has sleep issues anyway.

AIBU to tell their parents if they carry on or should i just ignore them and hope that eventually they will find somewhere else to play?

can you park nearer the entry to your drive .so there is no space to play football on your drive.

What's with the face? OP has said they are causing damage to her car, that's not acceptable, she's not pissed off at them just for playing.

Custardo its not the playing that bugs me. I don't really care if they play on the pavement over the road or out the front. Its the fact they think its fine to use our property as a goal or run up and down between them.

Custardo, I assume you would be happy for two pre-teens that you don't know to play on your property and potentially damage your car and potentially sue you if they injure themselves .

The playing would bug me. You are perfectly in your rights to not want children on your property.

We used to have up to 12 children playing under our window. On and off of our garden. It took a whole summer of me asking them to go elsewhere but we got there in the end. One of them told me to fuck off once and then made himself scarce for a while.

I used to speak to our neighbours about it and they would be too worried to say anything. One even said, "I just keep my head down when I leave my house." No one should feel like that about their own home.

It depends how the neighbourhood is in general. I lived in a really rough neighbourhood for a few years and you couldn't say anything to the kids because then they would start targetting you, and the parents were just as bad.

The other thing is, that even though the park is just round the corner, sometimes some children aren't allowed to play by other groups of children.