School kids walking on my front garden wall

[Randomo]

Why do parents think its okay to have their kids walk on my front garden wall (2 foot high)....

Whats worse are the kids that sit on the 'pillar' at the entrance to my drive. (A 3 foot high brick pillar with a flat top).

When I was a kid I was taught not to walk or sit on others property. I dont blame the kids so much as the parents. Its drives me nuts. I used to call them out on it, but given up now....too many different/new parents each year.

Or am I the one with a problem?

It’s not built to walk on (single course brickwork), and if it were to fall over while someone was walking on it who would be liable? OP you’re not BU. Check your home insurance, and if there’s a chance you could be liable in the event of the wall collapsing, add railings or spikes as soon as possible. Anti-intruder spikes can be added, provided you also display a warning sign “Danger: security spikes Do not climb. Risk of injury”. I would also contact the school to ask them to remind kids (and parents) of the dangers of walking on walls...

Wow, how can you possibly care so much about this? Just let them be, it's fun to walk on walls as a kid, and I'm sorry but it isn't damaging it don't be silly. What grumpy person you are!

I'm completely mind blown that anyone finds this ok. My parents just added railings to the top of theirs for this very reason. They had just paid good money to have to put in and didn't want it used as a climbing Frame. Teach kids some manners and to respect people's property.

@Mostlylurkingiam

Wow, how can you possibly care so much about this? Just let them be, it's fun to walk on walls as a kid, and I'm sorry but it isn't damaging it don't be silly. What grumpy person you are!

Of course it will damage it eventually, you dip stick 🙄🙄🙄, it's not your property so don't walk on it Are people really this thick?

Just let them be, it's fun to walk on walls as a kid, and I'm sorry but it isn't damaging it don't be silly.

That’s beside the point. It’s fun to do a lot of things as a kid and as an adult, doesn’t mean one should or be allowed to. It is still someone’s property. Doesn’t matter if you or anyone else doesn’t think it isn’t doing any damage or it’s fine, it is still someone’s property that they paid and are liable for. There are places where it’s ok for children to climb and walk on things outside, they’re called play parks.

@spanielstail

I'm completely mind blown that anyone finds this ok. My parents just added railings to the top of theirs for this very reason. They had just paid good money to have to put in and didn't want it used as a climbing Frame. Teach kids some manners and to respect people's property.

I’m completely mind blown that anyone would go to the trouble and expense of stopping kids walking on a wall. 🤷‍♀️

@Blossomtoes and I am completely mind blown that adults think think it's fine to allow their children to do it
Where do you draw the line and actually say no?

Are parents who let their kids walk on private walls the same people who drop litter rather than taking it home with them because “the council should provide more bins”? There’s a lack of consideration for others behind both.

Where do you draw the line and actually say no?

Where it’s something that actually matters. Maybe where it affects something sentient.

As a small girl I was allowed to the local shop from dgm 's house.. One day I fell walking on a wall and a man walked me home.
A 7yo girl with blood dripping down her legs accompanied by a grown man. Imagine.
Dr kindly thought to mention the scar during a routine smear..
Not always a carefree pastime!

@Blossomtoes

Where do you draw the line and actually say no?

Where it’s something that actually matters. Maybe where it affects something sentient.

Because it doesn't matter to you you shouldn't assume it doesn't matter to others It's not your bloody wall to walk on

I consider myself pretty joyless and intolerant when it comes to other people’s children but I honestly can’t believe some of the the comments on here!

Is this actually a parenting forum..?
As in the posters on here are parents?
If so, that is a truly terrifying thought.

Deliberately loosening bricks so children hurt and fall themselves and putting shards of glass on the wall?!?!

What the fuck is wrong with people?

It terrifies you that some parents might side with a property owner rather than going in for all this mawkish ‘But they’re ickle wickle childwen! How can you deny them their joy?’ nonsense?

@TeachesOfPeaches

Put some railings on top?

Loose the top layer a but?

It terrifies you that some parents might side with a property owner rather than going in for all this mawkish ‘But they’re ickle wickle childwen! How can you deny them their joy?’ nonsense?
Er no, it terrifies me that parents are calling children they don’t even know all manner of hideous, nasty names while plotting and laughing about ever more vicious ways to injure children eg deliberately loosening bricks and applying glass.
It’s not right.

What happened to just putting railings up or rose bushes like a normal, reasonable person, or even, gasp, telling the parents the wall is unstable and unsafe to climb on...

FYI I wouldnt like children walking on my wall either so actually I do side with the property owner, I’m not very tolerant myself as I said in my post but the nastiness of some people on here is just something else!

@StillCoughingandLaughing they're not ickle wickle children and nor are they brats!

Why is it you don't mind the children being called brats but are whinging about people calling you nasty?

You seem a very strange odd person to be on a parenting forum.

Loose the top layer a but?

Now THAT is going too far.

Sorry yabu it's normal - spikes will prevent it, or barbed wire

Can’t believe the responses on here! I’ve always taught my DC not to walk on anyone’s private property including front lawns or driveways. No one told me to, I just figured out for myself it was rude and encroaching onto someone’s private property. Obviously a lot of DC are dragged up parents who don’t GAF these days. Public areas or walls in front of shops or public buildings, fair enough.

I’d put something on top of it, OP, like an ornamental railing. It could become loose and I wouldn’t want a DC hurting themselves on my property anyway.

[quote SadieCow]@StillCoughingandLaughing they're not ickle wickle children and nor are they brats!

Why is it you don't mind the children being called brats but are whinging about people calling you nasty?

You seem a very strange odd person to be on a parenting forum. [/quote]
How do you know they’re not brats? You don’t know them anymore than I do!

I don’t really give a toss if some nobody thinks I’m ‘nasty’. It just amuses me that you’re up in arms about my comments on children who’ll never see said comments, yet you keep returning to this thread to bitch at me, knowing I WILL see it. I’m trying to decide which is genuinely nasty - me making a generic comment about badly behaved children, or you making very specific digs at a specific person.

@StillCoughingandLaughing it's you calling children brats, how do you know they're brats, you don't know them?

So why call them brats in the first place ..... not necessary at all to make a nasty comment about children who walk on walls!

Nasty

What happened to just putting railings up or rose bushes like a normal, reasonable person, or even, gasp, telling the parents the wall is unstable and unsafe to climb on...

Why does it have to be said not to climb all over something that is private property? It’s simple respect. We are taught as children not to touch or take something that doesn’t belong to us so why is it difficult for parents to keep their children off someone else’s property? Why is the onus on the property owner to have to do xyz for strangers to leave their property alone? No one should have to spend money putting up spikes and planting rose bushes for people to keep their children off their walls.

I literally had no idea people mind this. I love to see children enjoying walking on my wall. You live and you learn...

@animalprintfree

I literally had no idea people mind this. I love to see children enjoying walking on my wall. You live and you learn...

Me too. But apparently we’re the bad guys for not minding. The world gets weirder every day.

Coughing how do you know the children are badly behaved? Because they walk on the wall? The majority of kids walking on walls are accompanied by their parents and often smaller than waist height... If you desperately need to blame anyone, it's the parents, not the children.