If you have children next door how do they get on with yours?

[blacknredsweeties]

Just curious.

What are their approx ages and genders?
Do they go to the same school?

I have 11 and 13 DDs.

Have a boy 15 one side and two boys 8 and 10 the other.

Dd13 and Boy 13 don't speak. She won't go on the garden if he's out. The fences are 5"

Dd11 will play football / zombies with the younger boys. I often think what it would be like having girls next door but would it be a constant drama or is it nice? There are no girls around us unfortunately. Well no older ones.

They are at different schools.

This question might be too nosey / outing actually so I'm not expecting many replies.

I live on an huge housing estate with my DD who is 6. She has many friends in the estate of both sexes but similar ages. They all get on great! And play in some formation or other every day.

Sounds like my childhood. All different ages. Boys girls. Used to be out all day. Used to go round knocking on doors to see if they were playing out. Do you have kids either side?

Next door have 2 DDs who are 8 and 4. My DD is 6 and they play together maybe once a week or so, more with the younger one though as they still like dressing up and barbies which the older one considers herself to old for! They don’t go to school together. None of the other surrounding houses have kids.

The neighbours across the road have a grandson that comes to visit several times a year, he's a few months older than my son and they are best friends when he's visiting. There's also a girl a year older but they only play together so far with the visiting grandson. A set of twins a year older too but so far we've only got as far as saying hello to them. DS sees all the girls in nursery but doesn't play with them there either.

When DD was small we lived on a different estate, there all the children played together from 3 years old to around 8, roaming from house to house or to the playground across the street but we moved before they started going to school (they would have all gone to the same school at the bottom of the road). Now they're older and all at the same school she wants nothing to do with them!

Lived next door to a girl the same age as my daughter. The dad was creepy A F and I tried very hard to not encourage the friendship too much as I didn’t want my daughter over there. They found each other at school for a bit but we kept the relationship at arms length. Then the daughter moved to a different school and it all blew over.