Are you still letting your DC play out with neighbours kids?

[LegoBloodyHurts]

Are you still letting your kids play out with neighbours kids? Seems to be in my neighbourhood the kids are carrying on as normal, and out on the streets together. Mine are home as I won’t allow it.

No kids around me 'play out' in streets anyway except to go somewhere on bikes so no different for me. I can hear children in neighbours' back gardens, two doors away and backing on to me, if I have the French doors open; they are not noisy so I imagine it's only families, no visitors. It's really very quiet here, more so than normal.

I can't imagine people letting their children out to play in streets at the best of times but certainly not now. You can't trust kids, however sensible, to keep distance from each other.

I have teens and no way are they going out.
We live in a fairly affluent area and has everyone now seems to be behaving responsibly in terms of only the people who live in a house together are in the house and garden of neighbours.

Absolutely no excuse. But they know no one is going to police it so what can you do? Just carry on doing the right thing by your family and pray all the parents of these children don’t learn the hard way the risk they’re taking.

No mine aren’t playing out

I live on an estate and I have to say I have been impressed with how compliant all the children/families have been around here ( as some of the adults can be prone to anti sociable behaviour at the best of times!) Usually the children play out together after school hours but since lockdown the only children I have seen have been those walking with their parents. I have heard plenty playing in their own back gardens and of those ones nearest to me I know for a fact they are only playing with their siblings.

My own DS is now grown up and away from home but I can remember when he was small the cries of "it's not fair" when he saw that other children were still out playing on the street when he had been called back in earlier and was getting ready for bed. My response to that was that if X or Y was my child then they too would be in the house and getting ready for bed but as they weren't then I could not do anything about it.

What's living in an $affluent area ' got to do with it?

Nope. Not here either where there's some open space where the kids normally play. Still get some dog walkers but they keep apart.

These people are idiots.

No way! My kids would love to see their friends and cousins but make do with face timing them.

I’m on a very densely populated “nappy valley” type area (loads of families
Absolutely no one playing out with friends, no one.

We religiously go for our daily exercise though, everyone does. Smile across the park, wave from a doorway kind of thing.
But engaging? Playing? Absolutely not

I had to put a stop to some pokemon card trading across the fence. Apparently I'm Meany McMeany. Whatever.

My children do not play out on the cul - de - sac since lockdown,

But how do all of you outraged! explain that my childen get to go to their father's house 2 hour drive away and mix with (who knows who) before he delivers them back at the end of the week - all within the guidelines...?

No! The nearest they get is playing in the garden the same time as the kids next door.

Why is anyone still asking things like this? Sorry but it gets me so mad. Of course kids shouldn’t be playing with other kids!

No way and no kids on our street are out playing at all other than in their own gardens. I'd ring the police if I were you.

bubblebu
Because for them not to do so In many cases would be to go against court ordered contact.
And they shouldn’t be mixing with ‘who knows who’ only members of their dads household.
I perfectly think it’s a bit silly but There is a reason for it.

@Bubblebu
I don’t understand
So your ex does allow your children to be out and about?

My children go to their fathers.
He is single and very much adhering with guidance. They arrive, stay in other daily exercise. He then returns to me. Rinse and Repeat.

No way!

I am so frustrated by this - I will not let my son out but my neighbours are letting their kids out and I find this quite reckless and selfish!

The childminder the bottom of my road has had the two kids she’s been minding running up and down the road screaming all day. They been drawing on the road, they even had a nice little game of football.

I really feel for parents of young kids who live on the road watching and hearing them out and about all day

No, because I'm not a stupid fuckwit with no regard for the situation we are facing.

Yes. As In next door neighbour's DC is in his garden and DD is in mine. Separated by a fence and over 2 metres of space.

I so won't want to go back into school to watch children of families who think this is ok. FFS.

NO

Driving me mad here.

We have a large shared garden (old group of properties split now into various family houses/flats)

3 of the families are BBQing together. The kids are playing together loudly every day all over the garden.

My poor (only child DS) just has to listen/watch.

Has cemented in my brain what absolute fuckwits they are though.

Our immediate neighbours have DC similar age to ours and aren't letting them out. So at least we're not the only household with children keeping them away from the "fun" but it's so infuriating.

I saw two of the mums in a car together going somewhere today. One has a young baby and a toddler.

Ontheboardwalk - I’d report that childminder. Everyone of you who has seen groups of children playing out should report parents online.
What’s the point of us all staying in all day if these people are compromising us.