kids left out til 10pm

[ohknickers]

Basically title sums it up.
dd yr2 has friend who plays out until 10pm ish with little brother of 4.

Oh lets not go there with the council estate thing. One child in our street roams at stupid hours and the rest of us are horrified by it. We arent all like that!

I grew up on a council estate and most are fab, but there are a few sink estates with massive problems. Crap parenting being one of them.

The estate where I live is ok; most people are lovely. And tbh I include in that the kids who are out late at night by themselves. We very rarely have any trouble. Once a young lad threw stones at my living room window. I went storming out to give the whole group of them a piece of my mind - turned out they were so horrified by what he had done that they shopped him immediately .

Tbh though it's not much different to the street I lived in for a while after we were married (private) - most families fine, the odd nutter, a couple of "rough" families that caused trouble, but mostly ok. That's life I guess.

interested to read thread - similar situation where houses straight behind ours (fortunately we've got a long garden) have been playing out till 10:30 / 11pm. Yes, in the dark. there are 5 kids, and their youngest is younger than mine - just 2 All of them under 10. And they are bloody noisy. they had music on (outside) til after 11, lo's singing to it.
My dc are in bed at 7 and saying "mummy why are those children still out"

i would never let mine play out later than 9.

There are crap parents everywhere...my parents were loaded, they were still crap!

I was the opposite. We lived above our business in a town centre. I spent most of my childhood on my own upstairs. They worked downstairs and I had no friends to play with at all. Twas blardy lonely!

Montenegro, Kerry? I am very behind, I thought you were going to Austria or was that another trip?

Its not a council estate the house (250k) is in a very nice area actually.
If the kids were in their own garden say family party/bbq that would be fine, but to just be left to roam and play outside then that's another story.

honoria........I try, I realy do try ((sometimes)). I am so very pleased that my efforts will not go rewarded this time

what is my prize

In the summer hols, might be my kids. But then, we are on a very small island where everybody knows everybody else. Oh, and in Scandinavia so never goes entirely dark.

Am also fond of taking family for midnight swims. But not on council estates, evidently.

midnight swims sound divine!

@ midnight swims as well