School kids walking on my front garden wall

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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?

Hose pipe to the wall before school chuck out time.
Nobody likes a wet bum.

Yes, it is fun for kids, but their parents need to teach them that the world doesn't revolve around their whims and you can't just use other people's property without permission

@Youseethethingis

Hose pipe to the wall before school chuck out time. Nobody likes a wet bum.

Are you kidding? Have you heard of kids? You may as well go the whole hog and hand out free ice cream.

@FourTeaFallOut guidance on church walls clearly states the church could be liable if a wall injures someone. It’s not hard to follow that a homeowner would also be liable.
www.churchofengland.org/sites/default/files/2017-12/churchyards%20liability%20for%20personal%20injury%20accidents%20%28final%29.pdf

@starbrightstarlight8888

I wouldn't like this either. Regardless of whether kids enjoy it or not, it's your property. Why do parents think it's OK to let their children stand and walk over your property?

Agreed.

I probably should have clarified this in my opening post.

Im not upset with the kids tbh. Kids will be kids.

The part that makes me angry is the parents allowing or encouraging it. Its the attitude of fully grown adults who are parents, not giving a c**p about others.

But, even if this were applicable to homeowners, has it ever happened? Your post sounded like these hoardes of litigious parents are just itching for a chance to sue and given the sheer number of walls and clumsy children - it's still not something I've ever heard of.

Pardon my french

I have a wall that runs alongside the road , it has a bus stop . People lean on the wall , and often leave things on it then don't want to take on the bus such as drink cans , milk bottles, half eaten food etc.
The other day there was one of those flashing ( but wasn't flashing ) yellow metal road works lights !

Maybe email the school and explain that your wall has been damaged due to the little darlings constantly walking on it, then the school might mention it in their next newsletter.

Fun or enticing though your wall might be, it's not on to have it walked on, particularly as you've already had to repair it.

I thought I was a grinch about people’s kids but I don’t see the issue at all? It’s definitely on the cuter end of the spectrum, and I didn’t think anybody would ever mind. As a child I would have thought any woman who came out to tell us not to do this was a witch

@FourTeaFallOut

But, even if this were applicable to homeowners, has it ever happened? Your post sounded like these hoardes of litigious parents are just itching for a chance to sue and given the sheer number of walls and clumsy children - it's still not something I've ever heard of.

you pulled me on this one, just because YOU'VE never heard of it happening doesn't mean it doesn't happen. kids can fall over just walking along the street because they are messing about, add a small height and who knows what might happen. are you a parent who let's their dc do this stuff ?

Just put an angled coping stone along it, so they can’t walk on it.

Barbed wire is the solution.

We used to do this as kids. Unfortunately, a sign telling us not to would just spur us on!

Just leave it OP, or change it for something else. A fence, or nothing?

We live near a school and one of the reasons we've let the bushes grow over the low wall is to stop kids sitting on the wall. They're also good for privacy

Plant a load of buddleia, they grow very fast

100m from a school isn't very far! Did you imagine children all lived less distance away than that?!

are you a parent who let's their dc do this stuff ?

No but I was a kid who did this kind of stuff. And I absolutely understand that just because I have never heard of a child who has fallen off someone else's wall may have then taken the property owner to court and I had just never heard of it which is why I had originally asked...had you ever heard of it?

Unfortunately that's the price you pay living next to a school. Parking across your drive, kids running in your garden, Kids peeing on your garden whilst the mums chat outside your front door. The entitlement is immense. I'd grow fast growing thorny bushes.

Oh god it’s only a wall! Chill out.

Grow some nettles. They make excellent soup.

Walking in walks is surely a childhood right?
But I am sure I may think differently if it was MY wall.
Now my DC are too grown up for this I get my dog to do this (NOT on a house wall but there is a v low wall of an apartment block's communal garden that he does this)

I think you are being very mean.

I'm retired and live a long way from my family. I love watching the children walking past my house on their way to and from school. No wall, but if I had one, I'd be happy to let them walk on it. I hope somewhere in two places there are Grandmas who enjoy watching my Grandchildren as they pass, doing the things children like to do, like walking along low walls.

I put trellis on top and grew very prickly roses through it.

Blimey there’s some miseries on here. I even walk on walls sometimes.