Sick of other people’s unruly kids

[Onetwobuckeroo]

I’m just having a rant about some kids who live in and around our estate who seem to have no discipline, respect or integrity. I’m so
bored of watching these same children “roam” the estate day after day, evening after evening. I’m talking ages 5 - 12. Repeat that.. age 5 upwards. I feel sorry for the children. What sort of future do they have?! No adult supervision. They’ve so far been seen pulling non mature trees out the ground, throwing stones, being disrespectful etc etc. Ok, you could argue it’s kids being kids. However, if an adult told me to stop whatever I was doing as a child (who wasn’t a parent) I’d be mortified. These kids literally do not care. Neighbours and us are fed up of their noise, often until at least 9.30pm. We live in a nice area but why do some people not care where their kids are? What they are doing? Generally out of sight, out of mind.

AIBU? It’s actually starting to drive me nuts!?!

Children just don’t care. They’re allowed to roam about round here, if you raise it with their parents you can guarantee there will be a FB post moaning that kids can’t be kids and how dare adults tell their little cherubs off for anything.
kids used congregate near me and scream/shout/swear sit on cars etc etc…They’re rude and abusive if anyone the tells them off and their parents actively usher them away from their own door to avoid the racket.
thankfully they’re a little bit scared of me after they were obnoxious little shits and got it fired right back at them. That interaction resulted in a fb post from a father making empty threats which stopped when a video of their behaviour and attitude was posted back as my reply. Still no apology though!
They’re feral and most people are of the opinion “not my little darling”

I really dislike people moaning about kids.

However having a 4 and 7 yr old I just wouldn't be letting them out to roam about and play unsupervised all day. It seems madness to me. We're still at the organising playdates and parents meeting up to sit in each others gardens with their kids. So I dunno, if the kids round here we're running riot unsupervised maybe I'd hate people moaning about kids less and see their point

Do you have neighbourhood assigned police? They need to be informed there is anti social behaviour happening on the estate, then make sure you (and everyone else) keep on reporting.

Lazy feckless parents who keep having kids but don't want to bring them up are the problem 😡

We didn’t pull up trees or throw stones, but it was pretty normal when I was a kid for the mixed age group who lived in our street to all be out together all day in the summer holidays, the expectation was that the older ones kept an eye on younger siblings. Do these children live in the area? Their parents may be just as appalled as you to hear about the bad behaviour, if you went around to tell them.

So is this going to be a child bashing thread or a parenting one? Potentially both.