What’s the big deal? Tell the parents. Or, if not, catch the girl in the act, arch one eyebrow nicely, and intone, “And why were you trying to get into my house?”
With luck, she’ll flee and you won’t have to worry about it.
Some of you people have too much faith in the kid’s parents.
Most parents these days will just get defensive about it and excuse their kids behavior any way they can.
Hell, I’ve been bitten by dogs, then yelled at by the owners. Punched in the groin by small children then yelled at by the parents. Climbed on by strange (ie, I didn’t know them) small children and then yelled at by the parents when I tried to get their kids off of me. Had my stuff destroyed by children and then had their parents yell at me that it was my fault for putting it in reach of their children. Had my stuff destroyed by dogs then called “stupid” for putting it in reach of the dog.
Don’t you know that nothing is the fault of small children and dogs these days? It’s all your fault!
Well, let’s see if the parents will take care of it first.
If they blow it off, then we can put our fertile imaginations to work and and come up with a lesson for this child that will teach her the error of her ways.
I had the same thing happen to me
except the parents were yelling “Why did you just punt our kid out of a sixth floor window?”
My dad was having this problem with the little 6 year old girl next door. She would walk in very quietly and just stand there. She’d ask if my niece was there, my dad would say no, and she’d leave. But she did this a lot. I told my dad it could be BIG TROUBLE if he happens to be traipsing around in the altogether, and that he should keep the door locked. But he didn’t seem to feel that it was that big a deal. I finally just mentioned it to the kid and to the kid’s parents (over a beer). They were very cool about it.
No parent wants the finger of accusation pointing at their kid, so they’d probably be happy to hear this is going on.
In my case, the child bodily slammed into my right leg as the fist hit my groin. My physical reaction (leg jerk) knocked the kid backwards on his ass. Mommy then screamed to high heaven about how I had just “intentionally kneed <name> in the face”.
That was the only time that the kids daddy ever came to my defense. And mommy was not happy about it.
Of course, she was such a screaming bitch that when their dog bit me in the groin, she first screamed at me for allegedly kicking the dog (after obliviously ignoring me prying the struggling dog loose from my genitals) and then screamed at me for being “stupid enough to put a napkin on your lap when you know <dog name> likes to eat paper!”. Um, sorry, we were eating dinner, you know.
In retrospect, I should have gotten up, went straight to the phone and called the police to report the dog bite. Then spit in her face and sued her ass.
I ain’t friends with those people no more. Anyone wonder why?