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.

Just give her a 👋 and a crazy batshit smile 😃 she'll get fed up.

Can't stand these wee brats in the spring holidays hanging about. Schools should be back already!

You will have to get fence toppers. Something i also need to do as I have annoying nosy neighbours too :-(

Get the hose out ready.

People will suggest anything but setting boundaries to children. This is nuts.

I’d just tell her to piss off every time. If her parents don’t want her repeating your swearing, they’ll have to stop her peering over.

The dad wtf 🤣🤣

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You could just chat to her and be friendly? She’s probably just a bit bored and lonely.

I’ve just moved into a new house op and we have those stupidly low fences and I’m on edge so badly all the time when I’m in the garden because we have zero privacy, luckily the neighbours seem nice but we’re the ones with kids and I’m constantly on the look out for them being annoying

Throwing water over the kid would be a very stupid thing to do because it would place you firmly in the wrong and dramatically escalate the situation.
In some situations it might even be considered common assault.

Sprinklers....heard of people having them to deter pooping cats...might work on peering kids.

And yes I have kids - they need to learn consequences,.

I agree, although I might use slightly stronger language to deter the little brat. 🤣🤣

There are plenty of people without kids on MN. A lot of the content has nothing to do with children. Even if she were a parent, we don't have to like other people's children.

Yes, that’s very good advice. Make out you are worried about the little girl as well. Tell her you are worried the dog will bite her or something.

I haven’t read the replies, but no doubt someone has put something like “She’s just being friendly. You sound like a misery” etc. 🙄Ignore them. You are 100% entitled to privacy. The girl’s parents should apologise to you and tell their daughter not to peer over the fence, that it is rude, etc. If they don’t, then they are bad parents who aren’t raising their child properly.

Some bizarre suggestions, go and speak to her parents, they probably don’t even realise she’s doing it, or that she’s standing on a table.
Worst case and that doesn’t make any difference, add some trellis & grow some dense plants, or add some slats along the top, just make sure she then can’t peer through the gaps.

I’d find it annoying too OP. I’m fine saying hi, but I don’t want someone watching me every time I’m out there

ps/ if it doesn’t work mention to the parents that you’re naturists 🤣

The site is available to everyone.

Get a water pistol. When she goes in crying to her mum you can say you couldn’t have sprayed her as she doesn’t look over.

So would I! I was being polite 🤣

She's spoken to the parents and they denied it.

Just tell her sternly to stop doing it. At least if she complains about that to her parents they'll have to acknowledge it's happening.

Do you have plants that need watering and a good aim ?

And that is where it went wrong

Garden sprinkler. Is it possible to get a motion-detector activated garden sprinkler?

Why? Should the childfree not be allowed to access topics interesting and relevant to them?

I have children but in general I can’t stand other people’s children. Am I allowed to use Mumsnet?

Just as long as you know some people can't stand your children.