Children chalking over our land

[Charliec12]

Hi all, am I over reacting? My neighbours brought their children some chalks at the weekend. The children are chalking everywhere with them including on my driveway which we half share with them. My OH said to one of the children tonight that the area looked a mess. Said child started crying and then the Mum came out and was confrontational and annoyed with me that I don’t agree with it looking nice in the area. I also have 2 young children and I get they want to have fun.

Stop being such a misery guts op.

There's no shortage of rain to wash it away, and they'll get bored of it soon anyway.

Give your head a wobble.

What a miserable, nasty prick your husband is and, frankly, you don’t seem a great deal better! It’s a bit of chalk ffs

Would hate to be married to such a miserable old bastard.

What a horrible thing your DH has done.

Making a child cry over chalk drawings.

Get yourself some chalk and have a game of hopscotch!

I'd only be upset if it didn't wash off.

Try washing it with a bucket of water and if it rinses away then no problem.

Oh you misery guts. The poor children are just having some innocent fun and not causing any damage. It will simply wash off with water. Do you enjoy being in a relationship with someone who bullies children and makes them feel bad? Hope it made him feel really big and clever. I’d get the serious ick if my partner acted like that.

Your DH must have been pretty grumpy to make her cry. Which explains why her mum was gobby.
When you said your land, I was imagining a mob of hoodiedup graffiti artists attacking your tennis courts or something.
You both need to get a grip.

Your OH was definitely unkind to tell the child it looked messy, they were probably really proud of it. It would be reasonable to ask the parents to make sure they stick to their own half of the drive in future, though I don't think I could get worked up about chalk.

This happened in our close when my dch were young and some neighbours were not happy with what they called "mess" all over the pavements. So your DP is not alone, OP.

This is a great idea.

Get your partner to get some chalk and draw a great big line down the middle of your shared driveway. Then draw a big house on your side and put your names under it. Then write our side and a big smiley face. Have some fun OP, your own DC will probably want to do chalk drawings soon.
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OP, why don’t you get your kids some chalk and let them join in? Maybe if you see your own children having fun with it, it won’t bother you as much 🤷‍♀️

Your land?

Get a grip OP. It’s only chalk. It’ll be gone when it rains.

Someone said this to me as a child and it still sticks with me till this day, grumpy af in my opinion it's not permanent.

I really hope this is a reverse. If it isn’t, OP you’ve lost your mind my luv.

Please OP don’t be ‘that’ neighbour.

I buy my kids chalks all the time, granted they do it in my back garden but it’s a great way to pass the time! Why don’t you ask them to draw something pretty or a hopscotch pattern and have some fun. Live a little!

I’m prepared to be flamed for this but whatever. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I don’t fundamentally see any issue with children using chalks outside as myself and my siblings used to do the same outside when we were young but the parents should be discouraging and not encouraging their children to be on your property boundary. We would have been in so much trouble if my parents had found out we had done it on another persons property and rightly so. Whether it’s washable and kids fun etc is irrelevant. It’s about basic manners and a blatant lack of respect by the parents not to teach their children to respect other peoples homes and whilst chalk isn’t grafiti or damaging it opens up a whole new avenue for them to just wander onto your driveway and do whatever they like as they get older ie paint or playing on your drive. You can guarantee if they were to play on your part of the drive and have an accident and be injured by something on your drive said wondergob would be the first person to blame you. Your partner shouldn’t have confronted the children but should have gone straight to their parent instead.

To be fair, the mother should have told the child to only draw on their own drive..

“Land” lol

Seriously chalk. Has your DH nothing better to do? Tell him to cop on. Making a child cry he must feel mighty big.

I strongly suggest whatever issue he ever has he brings it to the parents because next time he approaches children and makes them cry the outcome may not be as favourable.

We have this exact issue!!! And my OH said I was being uptight for being bothered. It doesn’t even look good, they just scrawl and make f-all effort. I’m completely with you on this.

I get the feeling that this was probably the first thing your husband felt he could say something about. I imagine they may have been crossing the boundary between your two houses for some time. Nobody just goes and yells at some kids without there being some back story.