To stop chucking neighbours kids ball back?

[feereroo]

I have had a lot of issues with the neighbours kids since we all moved here.

The kids are 5 and 7.

They are loud, used to trespass all over my property, look into my windows and just generally cause a nuisance until big plant pots went up.

They bang in my door at 8pm in the evening waking my kids up demanding their ball back.

I wanted to remain friendly with the mum and would take delivery of her parcels, do her bin when she was at work/holiday.

I never got a thank you so I stopped doing it.
Her kids used to say “hello” but now they just blank us.

The football has been over the fence a lot of the summer and when I have been able to (have toddlers) I have always thrown it back over the fence.

I have stopped the parcels and bins and now when the ball goes over I am tempted not to throw it back given that they all just blank us now.

The balls are back in the garden again after I threw it back over last night.

AIBU?

I'd throw the ball off my property but not back to them. When they knock just say you've thrown it into the street. Rinse and repeat until the learn it's pointless to knock.

I think the once a week proposal is reasonable and hopefully will be effective.

Put them outside your home

“free to take”

how are you supposed to know where these random balls came from that have started to appear in your garden 😉

When our DCs were playing ball in the garden it rarely went over to lovely neighbour's garden. When DH played ball with DCs he frequently had to go round and ask for the ball he had kicked over!

Ball ? What ball ? I'd ignore the door completely at that time of night