Neighbours kids keep looking over our fence

[lilybit2025]

As the title suggests. Young girl around 5-6 keeps looking over at our fence. Did it a handful of times yesterday until I turned around and said 'hello can I help you?' And she's doing it again today. It sets our dog off and drives her insane yet she still does it.
I find it incredibly intrusive and I don't know if our neighbours know she's doing it and she's only a child but we do not have children and aren't particularly fond of them either.

What?

No wonder there was a thread in site stuff about the rise in posts about hurting children on MN.

I'm not one of the people who suggested that. I agree with you that hurting the child is an inappropriate suggestion too. However I don't take posters seriously who crow about how they'd behave like thugs and that's the point I'm making. I suspect posters like that are all bluster.

That's just horrible. Of course the child needs to be told firmly to desist but what is wrong with you?

If it’s snobbish to think that only someone dirt common would threaten to boot somebody up the arse, then I’m proud to be a snob.

You seem fine with people threatening to soak or hurt a 5 year old child though. Or is that the MC way of dealing with annoying kids?

Maybe I’m sensible enough to know that most people aren’t actually suggesting deliberately attempting to harm a child?

Oh so only dirt common people mean what they say on MN. The rest are only joking.

Are you joking?

If you’ve already had a word with her DPs and they say”but little precious isn’t doing that”, can you train her like a cat and just spray water at her when she does it?! When the DPs come knocking, tell them it cannot have been you because you were only watering flowers in your own garden so you wouldn’t have got water on her if she wasn’t looking in …. 🤣

I know….I’m evil (have had little sh*ts looking over my wall in the past that the DPs sweat couldn’t possibly have been their little darlings…)

A bit of water does not harm a child…it gets them wet and teaches them a lesson when they don’t listen to the words being said to them.

I live opposite a primary school which used to have a climbing frame which kids would climb and peer into the flats. It woukd really wind my nieghbours up but their only choice was to put up blinds or net curtains.

This kid is insolent and has no boundaries, despite being told.

She will stop when she pisses off the wrong person and they give her a piece of their mind (gets a severe talking to 1970s style) because she is likely to be seeing how far she can push you or others.

You may be better putting up net curtains but its a 50/50 chance it may work.

Brilliant, but child will just peer through it 🤔☹️

Thats not the answer. She's obviously standing on something to do it- parents need to be spoken to; easily done politely.

Net curtains won't help if it's causing the dog in the garden to bark.

The child was told nicely to please stop she's winding the dog up, she has chosen to ignore that nicely polite request and has chosen to continue to antagonise the dog.
She knows its wrong and at age 5-6 should expect to be spoken to harshly for it.
Go away is a reasonable statement to someone who keeps spying on the neighbours and wind their dog up.
The feelings of a rude, disrespectful, naughty child is not my concern.
Its people like you who cause children to lack resilience and grow into antisocial adults

Officially listed where? Not suggesting you’re wrong, I’m no expert. However, I’ve always felt that when you live close to people you accept that they can see in. I’m interested about these particular rights and what action you can taken.

My friend has this issue as well. I don’t know what she climbs on because I can’t see it (I’m 5’2) but her neighbour is always hanging by the fence watching her kids, she obviously wants to join in.

In theory it’s nice but sometimes you don’t want to invite her over and have to look after an extra child, nor do you want to be in your garden with a child acting like CCTV. It’s just uncomfortable.

Control your dog.

A cat can look at the Queen.

The dog is doing nothing wrong.

"Does your Mummy know you are stood up there? You should get down before you fall and also it's very nosey to keep staring over the fence so down you get or I will have to go and tell Mummy"

I dont have kids and like you op im not found of them either, thats why i chose a flat on first floor.
Ask the parents to stop her or taller fence, grow bamboo.

get the garden hose out and soak her... If her parents say anything just say you didnt see her peering over the fence.