Neighbour ring doorbells ruining kids playing

[ThatFlakyMauveTraybake]

We live in a cul-de-sac and many neighbours have ring doorbells. My child and others in the street play outside (something to be encouraged) but neighbours are complaining that their ring doorbells go off when the kids go on their driveway. The houses are all pretty close together with driveway next to eachother. We've even had neighbours shout abuse at the kids through the speaker and ive just had a neighbour message me that the constant notifications is annoying them while theyre on holiday abroad. Am i unreasonable to think its the technology thats the problem? Ring doorbells are there for security not to prevent little kids being kids.

We didn't. Wasn't ringing doorbells and running off part of the fun?

Not for your neighbors, no. Ringing doorbells and running off is completely arsehole behaviour.

They absolutely should not have to change their motion settings. You absolutely have to ensure your kids don’t play on other people’s driveways.

If you were a bit of a knob it probably was 😆

It’s Thursday, put the booze down.
Surely you can’t actually be blaming the neighbours when the kids are playing on their driveway?

The kids shouldn’t be on the driveway to begin with!

If they weren’t on someone’s property, they wouldn’t be filmed.
Don’t want to be filmed? Stay off their property! It’s not difficult

Kids play out in my street all day. They never go on my drive.

@Deathbyfluffy

Like I said arsehole neighbours - are you of them?

Tell the kids not to be playing on somone elses property and tell the neighbours to readjust their camera zones to only take on their property.

As others have said- why are the kids going onto the driveways if people they are not playing with.

What? The neighbours are arseholes because they don’t want kids playing on their drives? And they’re arseholes for not changing their doorbell settings so the neighbours kids can play on their drives without setting the doorbell off? Are you confused by thread or are you just a CF that thinks your kids should be able to go & play on any neighbours property without permission?

I have reread your op. It clearly says when children are on their own driveway rather than on their neighbour’s. Sounds like they need to adjust their cameras.

The point of a Ring doorbell is to alert people there's someone on their property. For their security.

Teach them to keep off other people's driveways. Teaching them respect for other people's space is part of your job.

@ThatFlakyMauveTraybake

kids should not play on others drives

I didn't read it that way. Maybe the OP could clarify as, having reread, it could be either. I read it as the ring doorbell going off when the children go on the drive of the ring doorbell owner. However it could easily be when the children go on their own drive, the neighbour's ring doorbell goes off, which casts a whole different perspective.

So people should adjust their doorbells to not capture their own properties just so the OP’s kids can trespass without disturbing them?

I like the poster above read the OPs post as the children are going onto their own drives which happen to be next to the neighbours drives. Not that they are going to play on the neighbours drives.

Why would she create the thread if it was the children going onto driveways they shouldn't be on?

Nevertheless, until she clarifies then the whole discussion is rather redundant.

Oh! If the kids are on their own driveway then it's 100% the neighbours issue

The neighbours need to adjust their ring motion detection settings to slightly closer to the door.
Balls and kids will occasionally go on other people's driveways, it's the nature of playing out.

It's great your dc are playing outside. We also live in a cul de sac so were lucky that my dc did too (a bit older now) however they'd not have gone on other peoples drive ways unless playing with a resident of the house the drive way belonged to. That must be very annoying if they are doing that, even without the door bells. Tell them to stay off!

But the post doesn’t say they are playing on their own driveways. When the OP says ‘their driveways’, she is referring to the neighbours’ driveways.

It really doesn't say they aren't on their drives though. Yes it could be read that way but the OP in my opinion is clearly referring to the kids drives.

My child and others in the street play outside (something to be encouraged) but neighbours are complaining that their ring doorbells go off when the kids go on their driveway.

That's why she clarifies that the drives are close together.

The houses are all pretty close together with driveway next to each other

If the kids were going onto the neighbours drives why would the OP start the thread? She wouldn't, she'd just tell them to not go onto the neighbours driveways.

Like many parents, they think everyone else thinks their kids are as precious and adorable as they do, therefore how could they possibly object to the OP’s kids going on their property when they’re just so cute and adorable?

Offer to duck tape over their ring camera? 😂😂😂

Or you know the more likely scenario which is that they are going on their friends driveways whilst playing with said friends.