Am I the only HE'er who is glad that the others have gone back to school?

[singingmum]

Having watched the behaviour of local school children over the hols,I am so happy that they are no longer going to be running riot on the streets all day while their parents let them cause havoc.I know that not all parents let their ds's run riot but a large majority have this summer on this estate and personally I'd like to kill them.Harsh I know,but we've had bored dc's everywhere and have suffered from bullying to our dc's and also damage to our fencing.I'm sick of parents(and it's a couple of families inparticular who are responsible)letting this happen.It's as though they have switched off to their dc's behaviour or aren't used to dealing with it as they don't see them enough or something.
Ok so I know that some people will take offence but we have had bored dc's since the second week of the hols and I just am so glad that these dc's are now off the streets and finally will have something to keep their attention.
I'm not saying that all parents who send their dc's to school are like this but the estate I live on was so lovely until someone started letting houses to tenants that the council and others had evicted etc. and now we have to put up with the side effects of this.
Apologies to anyone who is interested in their children but why can't these parents get a handle on these dc's????
Rant over

sorry that link didn't work-it should be:
joyfullyrejoycing.com/influencing%20kid%20behavior/tv%20and%20video%20games/argumentsagainsttv.html

this thread is even more bonkers than when I last read it.

We HE, and my children are quite clearly much nicer than other children. I don't think it's the HE, I think it's because we're nicer people all round.

{preens}

am sooo loving this thread!

Does anyone know if Blake went to school? I ask because he was very big on nudism and apparently he and his missus spent most of their days wandering around in the buff and having noisy - ahem - relations - ,as well writing poetry of course and painting. I cannot imagine these tendencies would have been well received in any educational institution. Or maybe that's where they started.

Caravaggio did not attend a regular school and look what happened to him. A drunken gambling drug addled bi-sexual profligate. Great paintings though.

Have to say that some on here have taken what I said out of context.
I don't have a problem with dc's playing,shouting etc.
I do have a problem with dc's who run riot causing what is in effect criminal damage and bullying.I
I wanted to know if the differences were seeming more pronounced because I HE.
Also I have many friends who's dc's go to school and their parents are excellent.I don't think that HE is for everyone.I haven't actually said more than half of what I have been accused of on here.
Please understand that:-
I do not hate dc's having a normal childhood
My dc's are not perfect but they do know right from wrong(ie they would not cause the damage etc. these dc's have)
My dc's play like any children.
My dc's watch tv
My dc's are not kept prisoner(as suggested earlier)
I know that I'm not the only one who thinks that dc's get bored and can be a large prob through the long holidays
Also if you read my post as written(which is how it was meant)you will see that I am not saying that it is all parents who school that are like this.
I admit to being angry when I posted this.Somehow I think anyone who had put up with what I have over the hols would feel the same.
Oh and for the record the parents of the one main problem family don't work and were just not interested.

singingmum, I see where you are coming from, but honestly, I don't think its to do with HEing or not

I have met some APPALLINGLY behaved HE'd teenagers. Have you been to HESFES? There are some really wonderful examples of teenage human behviour there. There are also 12 year olds smoking, setting light to rubbish bins, letting very large, worrying looking dogs terrorise toddlers, and swinging from basketball hoops. I grew up partly on an inner london council estate, and am not easily intimidated, but jesus, HESFES...

I HAVE also met a very few HE'd kids (NOT locally, I hasten to add) I reckon social services does actually need to be involved with. I do NOT say this lightly, I promise you, but like anything else, it is truly possible to royally screw up HEing.

I have met utterly countless schooled kids who are lovely, confident with adults, articulate, able to entertain themselves, etc etc.

I have concluded thus: it is NOT really about whether you send your kids to school or not. It is truly about parenting.

Unfortunately, I do not know how to bring about this perfect parenting yet

(let me absolutely clarify that re HE kids/social services:

I have met a LOT of HE'd kids

99% are lovely human beings.

a TINY percentage are really not, and I think their families need help. In this way they are like the population at large.)