Are you allowing your DC to play out with neighbours children?

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Just that really, are you allowing your DC to play out with neighbours children with everything going on?

There were loads of teens sitting down at the dunes yesterday smoking, drinking, playing music. Only access is on foot/bike so unless the police are using drones or something they are not likely to be spotted. Just hope they don't live with older vulnerable relatives.

Out of interest, is anyone kids riding their bikes / scooters in front of their houses? On cul de sacs? If there was no other children involved only your own, is this still allowed? As it is exercise, but is it frowned upon?

Ours are in too, so are our neighbours :)

Here we go. No.

No not ok.
I feel bad for my direct neibours as one household has 2dc and history of DV and the other are fuckwit drug dealing types whose back garden is literally a tip right now with everything from sofas, old toys, furniture and fridges! The dc trampoline is almost collapsed and it’s not a safe space. Next week we have a trampoline being delivered and as the weather warms we will get our big bestway pool out, it will be horrid for the tip garden dc as she has nowhere to play and will be able to see my dc out playing in our garden, I’m expecting her to appear either at my door or in her back garden with a sad face wanting to play but sadly the answer will be no for now. I’m sure I’ll get grief from that household for not allowing it but it’s tough as those are the rules. If they want to put their dc at continued risk from continued dealing and multiple people turning up at the door that’s on them.

No because I'm not fucking stupid!

My NDN has one son aged 8 and I've got 5 kids aged 8 - 12. I feel really sorry for him on his own but no way are they mixing. All the kids know they can't.

One of the problems in the UK is that how 'social distancing' works and what it's for hasn't been properly explained by the govt. they also keep changing their terminology.

Jacinda Ardern, the New Zealand PM, explained it really clearly in terms of keeping the virus 'in bubbles'.

I wish there was someone with her intelligence and empathy within 10 feet of the current cabinet.

Re bikes scooters in front of houses.

TBH I'd say no. It's unfair to other kids being kept in the house who'd want to come out and join them. Scooters and bikes continually passing is also going to be really annoying for people trying to WFH and shift workers who desperately need sleep.

Go for a proper walk with them, let them ride scooters bikes if they want but not up and down the same path bugging others.

Anyone else got neighbours like mine?

Thankfully not! Everyone is staying at home. And if someone has to go out out they make sure to stay at least 2 metres apart any other person.

@Redinthefacegirl - we are in a very similar position and are doing the same. I agree it's not ideal but I think it's the best we can do

No.

Because I'm not a fucking idiot.

All of the children in my street have been out playing too. DD4 has been the odd one out. Every time she goes out to play in the back garden the neighbours children are hanging out of their bedroom windows shouting at her to come round to play or to take her scooter around to the front. She doesn't really understand why she can't, although I have tried to explain. She could hear them all laughing and playing yesterday evening while she was doing painting in the kitchen and I felt so bad for her.

Husband is out at work every day bringing home goodness knows what, so keeping her inside feels a bit redundant anyway if I'm being honest.

I haven't seen the kids playing out together but we're in a flat so there's only a few that do it anyway. I could hear two of the little girls who do play together shouting to each other - one from outside and the other through the window - which broke my heart as they play nicely for hours together :(

No obviously not -these instructions are not rocket science to follow.

They will be special children of special parents. The special families, so special they don’t have to abide by the same rules as everyone else. We have them playing out the street and hanging around shops, parks and cycle tracks in our village too. There are a few special people on this site.

Dog walked at 6am this morning when all the special people were still in bed.

No and I’m so fucked off that every time I allow my own children to play in my own tiny garden, my neighbour sends her own kids down to play in front of my house, despite having a far bigger garden. Yesterday there were toys strewn all over the street. Toys that have been sucked and played with.

Noooooooooo!

My dc are playing in the back garden together. I noticed yesterday that it appears they are the only ones. Everyone else seems to be indoors.

Am I the one in the wrong? I thought bouncing on the trampoline and running around the garden would be a good idea. I've even noticed the older couple nextdoor are not out in their garden. They are out in all weather with radio one.
Am I in the wrong?
ducks from the screaming comments thrown at me

Mine are playing outside in our garden. I am just making sure they stay away from the fence shared with neighbours.

No of course not.

Playing in your own garden is fine.
Playing outside other people’s houses with the neighbourhood kids, not so fine.
If you want to allow kids to play in the street, allow them only in front of your OWN property and not to leave their slobbery toys and stuff everywhere .

OP, it makes it very hard to do the right thing when other people aren’t. You are doing the right thing.

Mine are staying at home. It’s tough on everyone.

I've been really struggling to keep mine in as next door have obviously said it's ok. I feel like a right paranoid bitch when I keep saying you're not allowed when they're obvs not been told the same. Luckily today they seem to be inside so there's less of a problem.
Mine aren't out all the time, just odd breaks to burn steam off.

I could myself wishing it would rain the other day

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