To be sitting here willing a small child to fall off my wall?

[hecate]

I am, I know I am. And if she actually fell, I'd be straight out there with big cuddles and a lollypop, I know I would!

But she is running up and down my wall and around my front garden and her mother is sitting on my wall, just watching her. (they live next door - but not the other half of my semi, they're on the unconnected side of me, iyswim!)

I thought they didn't realise I was in, so I made a point of going and opening my window, so they knew I was there...they disappeared for a minute and then the little girl ran back along my wall. And now she's running along my wall and around my garden.

FUCK OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOFF! Go play in your OWN FECKING GARDEN IT'S RIGHT NEXT TO THIS ONE!!!!!!!!!

This one is mine

throw a bucket of water over both of them. say you're terrible sorry you were aiming for the flowers. if they complain...say you wouldn't of got wet if you wern't on my wall...now f**k off!

Tin whistling sounds sadistic.

YANBU things like this can really get under your skin (well they do mine anyway)
in one student house I lived in in London a group of uths used to sit on our window sill to our sittingroom as it was directly on the pavement and next to the village shop.
one night my housemate was so pissed off listening to their drivel that he banged really hard on the glass to get them to move and the glass smashed all over the kids..
we were so upset, but so were they, one of the mums came and offered to help with the cost of the window - they never came back

LOL at this thread.

Well, if the wall also forms part of their property, then it's their wall too. Pretty irresponsible, quite rude perhaps if they haven't asked if you mind, but no biggie.

As to running around YOUR garden tho', I'm with ChasingSquirrels on this one - it's your property and if you don't like someone running around it without invitation then it's up to you to point that out.

I hear far too many 'adults' complaining about kids' behaviour without actually tackling it when it happens right in front of them. It's not fair on a whole generation of children who aren't being given the boundaries they need in order to make good social judgements as they grow up and who are being abandoned to the tender mercies of the police and social services. It's not the kids who are being anti-social, it's the rest of us for not accepting the responsibilities that a progressive and liberal social structure demands.

Sorry, but as the scourge of the little army of shoplifters, vandals and generally cheeky monkeys that live around here I get quite frustrated that no-one else seems to make an effort. It's never nice to have to confront or criticise other people (unless you're a complete b**ch) but sometimes it has to be done if you need their behaviour to change.

I know I must sound like a right uptight cow (anyone who knew me would laugh at the very idea) and I was going to make a 'soapbox' joke to lighten the mood - but really this is one issue that saddens me too deeply. So many young lives being thrown away, so many families broken up and disrupted and these days, if they come from the wrong area, there will be no second chances. They're only children ffs, we're the ones making monsters of them.

No Moomin, the wall is not on their side - it's at the front of our house, not the side, it's not a dividing wall. Their wall has a small fence on top so the girl can't run along it - which I guess is why she comes onto ours!

And trust me when I say I have no problems telling people where to get off when needed! But I seriously thought I might just be being a miserable old cow to resent a 3 year old child playing! I do have a tendancy to get overly angry about things that don't bother other people.

YANBU or a miserable old cow!

DD (3) loves running along walls but I always tell her that she can't do it on walls that belong to other people, wouldn't dream of letting her do this - thankfully we have a large public flowerbed at the bottom of our road with a slightly raised flat wall all around it, so I can always distract her from neighbour's walls with the promise of that!

I think your neighbour is a cheeky, hard-faced so&so to just sit there watching her dd trespass on your property!

LOL glaskham "I don't care which one" does that follow through her life in general?

cost me £1600 to put iron railings on our wall to stop children running along and adults sitting and chatting on it .. used to piss me off inordinately .. but then it is only a few feet from my living room window