that neighbours should not verbally reprimand another neighbours child for emptying birdfeeder

[MamaMaiasaura]

What do you think? If a 9ish year old child deliberately emptied bird seed out of a feeder (not theirs) for a laugh do you think the owner of the feeder should have had words with the kid?

My elderly neighbour always hangs a bird feeder from MY clothes pole, meaning the corner of my fence is always thick with bird poo. I always empty it onto their path. They don't seem to get the point mind.

Abso-bloody-lutely they should reprimand the child

I asked some kids from the other side of my estate to please be quiet the other night. I have a lampost right outside my front door. It was getting dark and they were having a rather noisy pow wow underneath it.

They went off sheepishly.

I think you were right to tell her off, at 9yo she knew it wasn't hers to touch.

I am usually more patient with neighbous DCs than with mine but when they go too far I do let them know. a friend od DD! who was 9 at the time thought it was very funny to tell me to shut up. I told her I did not like it and she was not to say it to me again to which she answered "oh shut up!" with a big grin on her face. Needless to say the grin desappeared when I marched her down to her parents house. Some children think they can get away with anything when you are to nice to them but they learn very fast when you take action. The girl in question avoided my house and my DD for a bit and then they started playing again together but I have never had anymore complaints about her. Being a witch is GREAT!!

awen , we could do with you around here, everyone on my road lets their kids do what they like , it drives me mad , i recently had to tell one of ds friends off for punching my ds in the face , the child told me to f##k off & called me a c##t
fair play to you

elmofan, have you talked to the parents? I would be livid!

Yes.

i have the mothers phone number (mobile) but she wont answer her phone , i knocked over to her house , she would not open her door , she doesn't want to know what her ds gets up to, a mutual friend of ds & this other boy said she was holding her phone in her hand as i was ringing her & she was laughing & passed a message to me to f##k off , with parents like that its no wonder her ds is a little shit .
gorionine i was (still am ) livid but unfortunately there's not a lot i can do .

elmofan I really do not understand some parents. Do they/would they really accept their own flesh and blood talking to THEM like that!?!?

apparently this child regularly calls his mum a c##t , & she laughs when he does it , my ds has heard him several times & my ds has told him that it is disgusting , (bless him)
this child has NO respect for anyone , he jumps on bonnets of peoples cars , throws stones at windows , punches & tries to strangle other kids , my ds does not play with him anymore , my dh told him to get out of our front garden a while back as he had punched ds once again & he stood up to my dh he is 11 , i dread to see what he will be like when he is a teenager

sorry awen , didn't mean to hijack
am at the grandmother shouting at you .

elmofan. its ok actually have a little boy round here who sounds v ery simliar to the one you describe only a few years younger. Parents dont care a jot.