Now I'm fully aware the summer holidays are in full swing. I'm also aware children are allowed to make noise and play out. Id prefer actually prefer children were all outside enjoying the fresh air and summer sun than stuck inside glued to ipads or bored, however in my street it seems that basic parenting has gone out of the window.
Almost every single day so far kids (both opposite me, next door to me and down the street) have let their little darlings run riot from half 7 in the morning until half 10 at night. These kids (varying from 4yrs-10) will blast footballs at fences, climb fences, scale garden walls, screech, scream, shout, fight, throw stones, leave scooters and bikes in the middle of the roads, leave gates wide open, stand all over flower beds, break garden furniture/ornaments and my new personal favourite ... throw dog poo bags (full of dog shit) in people's gardens. These kids are unsupervised.
Now you may ask, why have you not gone to the parents? I have (many times) and in return I've been shouted at, been told unless I have proof of their kids doing this then I need to "fuck off". "It's just kids being kids", "let them play, it's the summer holidays". I have even reported some of the damage to the community protection team (due to us all living in social housing) and I've heard NOTHING back.
I've had to keep my own DS inside or secluded in our back garden due to another child punching him (and that child's mother screaming at him for retaliating). Luckily we have school holiday activities booked in from next week.
AIBU for being annoyed and counting down the days for the return for normality?