Flower girls

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A couple of my neighbours have girls maybe around the ages of 6 or 7 who play together on an evening at the very top of my drive. Maybe once or twice a week they leave me some flowers on my doorstep. They are the sweetest girls but they drive me absolutely insane.

They knock and knock and knock and knock and bang and knock and bang and bang and bang and knock on the door or window until I answer. Half of them run back down the drive to hand me the flowers and run off. I'm not just talking a little knock by one. I'm talking a full on whollop from about 8 tiny hands!

Honestly it's so cute but I have a 4 year old and newborn who get woken up every single time.

The do not leave until we answer

How do I tell them or their parents without sounding like an absolute arsehole.

If their ball rolls down the drive they will knock on to see if they can retrieve it. Such polite children but I'm on edge waiting for the knock

Please help 😪😪😪

Put a note on the door saying baby sleeping please do not knock. If they ignore it just gently bring it to their parents attention. Exaggerate and say your baby isn’t sleeping well and is women easily. I’m sure they’d be extremely sorry and understanding.

Tell them your dc would love to see them on x date but they are busy the rest of the week.

just tell them not to knock on your door unless someone is very hurt/ had an accident because they wake the baby up. You can still thank them for the flowers but tell them nicely that they should only knock on the door for an emergency so that you aren’t disturbed. I don’t really see what the problem is here, I have no issues going out and having a word with the neighbourhood kids if they are being a bit of a pain (usually it’s kicking balls against the front of the house as our houses don’t have a fence or gate at the front so a bit open plan, even though it’s clear where the street ends and the front garden begins). I work with children though, so don’t have an issue telling them when it’s needed.

Thanks guys. We are really antisocial hence why we bought the house we did. They have to wander down the drive out of the way. We have some really old rusty gates that we've never used but I feel so rude closing them.

I'll use some of the pointers here to tackle it.

I'm a bit of a wet lettuce and can't really hold my own 🤣

Talk to them it the parents - end if

You have gates, close them! It's not rude, that's literally what gates are for, to keep people off your property that you don't want there.

If you don’t want to say anything just close the gates and make sure the latch is high enough that the kids can’t reach. There is nothing rude about shutting your gates, as a PP has said, that is what they are there for.

I'd tell them nicely that the baby is sleeping and that you need lots of quiet so as much as you love the flowers could they leave them on the gate/outside the gate? Or leave them out a flowerpot just outside of the gate as a special place to leave the flowers. They'd probably love that and think it was really special and you don't get them battering the door down daily.

Oh and shut the gates!

They came back about 30 mins later banging down my door asking if I liked the flowers. Woke them up for a second time. I said oh I absolutely do but I have two little people who are asleep so if they could come much earlier next time that would be great. They all whispered okay and skipped off. They really are sweet girls.

I enjoy the kind gesture and didn't want to stop it all together although I may live to regret this 🫣

Yeah you need to nip this in the bud (ahem) or else they'll be joining you for dinner before you know it - uninvited!

Close those gates!

Where are they getting the flowers from? I hope they're not picking them from someone's garden.

🤣🤣 kids don't have a perception of time to come earlier. So you basically just gave permission for them to come again, and actually encouraged it. If you really find confrontation that hard, take then a little colouring book to say thank you for the flowers but please no more knocking on my door. Tell them they have permission to retrieve their ball they don't need to ask anymore and to ha e a nice summer.