to ask them to move on?

[mommy2ash]

I feel really old and grumpy for doing this btw. I live up a tiny lane there is barely room for one car and the footpath is also very narrow. a group of youths have taken to standing outside my house and kicking a ball at the opposite wall. I have no garden so from my door to the wall is like 15 feet at the most. the wake my dd every night it's really starting to piss me off. I've already had to ask them to stop kicking the ball at my window and using my window sill to climb on each other's backs to hop over the wall to get into the closed football pitch.

Definitely ask them to move on, but be prepared for a variation of differing responses.

they are usually fairly ok with me since my dad knows one of their parents and last year he chased them up the road and gave them a bit of a fright after they had damaged my front door by repeatedly kicking it and setting plastic bags on fire and playing run away knock. my dad usually isn't insane I swear :-)

My neighbour had something similar to this. Very annoying. What are they like ? I know that teenagers are usually thoughtless rather than malicious. How do you think they would respond if you spoke to them. My neighbour talked to local police initially and long term planted prickly plants near her wall ( which they used to sit on). Tbh they grew bored and moved on to a new bit of street eventually

they can be a bit intimidating to the older people on the lane. I don't know why they come up there they aren't drinking or smoking or have anything to hide and they don't live here it's mostly older people. there are three large parks and tons of grassy areas nearby. they do jump the wall into the local football pitch. they shouldn't be in there so I'm considering contacting whoever runs the pitch and warning them they need to raise the wall. it's not open to the public and unless a match is on it's completely shut so the crazy part of me worries if something happened to them in there. I think I have too much time on my hands lol

Did you say you knew their parents. Wouldn't they like to know what their doing? It's kind that you worry for them but I think you need to get support from others eg the football club and ring 101. The police might be able to get them in touch with a youth group? I'm from London so might not be same resources near you?