Screaming children and babies remind me why it’s so easy for new moms to fall into PTSD after childbirth.
Children can really suck, but 99 per cent of the time it’s because their parents let them.
Had to skip some of the thread but I have to say that going to the parents rarely works for us.
We live in a condo complex and the park area is behind our house. Typically, there are 5-15 kids out there playing. Whenever one lets out a scream, I go out there and ask what’s wrong. It only takes a couple of times with each kid for them to realize that someone is listening and they will get the stinkeye for them to cut it out.
This means that now whenever I hear screaming, I go out and find a kid who’s actually hurt or in distress about 80% of the time (and I make sure they get home/mended up/stop being picked on by the teenage bullies). No parent has complained as of yet (and some of them were there when I told the kid to can it).
You have to keep in mind that a lot of people are scared to interact with strangers. You know you won’t shoot them if they come over to complain about the noise, they don’t.
The trouble is nowadays if you spank your kids someone might call the police and you will be in jail and your kids will in foster care. I don’t how parents manage to raise children properly today.
Just fine, thanks. :rolleyes:
Somehow I managed never having to strike my children and yet ended up with two truly delightful teenagers.
I’ve been thinking…and I think you should buy a Super Soaker.
I have a school bus stop right outside my house. The middle/high school kids just stand there and look sad from 7:15-7:25. Awesome!
But the elementary kids are there from 8:00-8:15 and will not shut up. I can handle all of them except two. Two brothers in particular just run up an down the sidewalk shrieking. Or poking sticks into the sewer grate while shrieking. Talking, laughing, fine. But shrieking like two lunatics gets old fast that early in the day!
I’ve tried asking them nicely to be quiet, as has my wife. I’ve even yelled out the front door to shut up because I am trying to sleep. I’ve talked to the lady at the school department who is charge of busing. Nothing works.
I have no idea where they live, and would feel very creepy following them home… So I can’t think of what else to do at this point. Maybe next time I will run outside in my PJ’s and yell “Oh my god, who got hurt?! It sounds like somebody just broke their arm! Is everybody OK? I’ve already called an ambulance!”
When you bought your house, was the school bus stop already there? If not, maybe you can ask to see if it can be moved.
It begins to sound like you have as many manners as the folks across the street from us.
The fallback position of bad parenting. For one thing, this is one of the best neighborhoods in my city, for another why should I have to go to the expense and hassle of moving because of jerks, and for the last most likely things wouldn’t be any different in another place. For some reason, far too many people think parenting means pop out a couple of kids and then let the village raise them. Have you not been reading the stories in this thread?
HA! Unfortunately, it’s still pretty hot here so the kids would probably like it.
Not if you fill it with…VINEGAR!!! 
Everyone who purchases a home should be required to sign a paper confirming they comprehend that they only get say over that which happens up to, but not beyond, their property line.
I am baffled by how much ill feeling and bad neighbouring is caused by people who can’t understand such a simple thing.
The problem is never the ‘bad’ neighbour’s manners, but the ‘good’ neighbour’s sense of entitlement, but they can never see it. It’s baffling in otherwise intelligent folk. I think a reminder as they sign for their house would do the job. (Y’know, except for the real jerks.)
“and then encroach on my property”, Here’s a hint, freely parking, on the public street, is not encroaching on your property. It doesn’t matter if they park there for shade, or because their truck matches your house, or if they park there every single day all year.
If I get say over, that which abuts my actually property line, I must own the bank next door, yahoo!
Asking people to move from their perfectly legal parking space so that you can park there is the epitome of ill manners.
Move to a better city.
To get away from the noise you cannot control.
That gets back to my original point about some folks funding the operation against you. Wherever you go, they will see that some kids disrupt your tranquility.
Seriously? It’s never the bad neighbor’s fault for causing the issue in the first place?
By doing what? Parking on the public street?
People need to accept they don’t get say over anything beyond their property line. Period.
Why does anyone think they have special rights to park, anything, in the public space in front of their house? So you have to park a couple of spaces away, get over it.
I guess I just feel that people, who are so sensitive to such things, should take care to purchase homes where there is no street parking, and leave the rest of us, who have no trouble sharing, in peace.
Trying to say who can park where, and when, on the public street is overstepping, in my opinion.
Not to mention it makes you look like an entitled ass.
Ok, you are just talking about parking. Fair enough. Your statement was very general!
OK then, I’ll park the trailer in front of their house next time and we’ll see how that goes over. Remember, they have five good sized vehicles over there, so when they come home from work that will mean that they will have to park at least two of them a good distance away from their house. Do you really think that they would prefer that?
I really don’t get why you think they have more right to park three cars on our street than I do to park our trailer, or why their convenience is more important than mine, or whatever your issue is. Especially when I only “inconvenience” them once every couple of months or so, yet they do it to me daily. I have a feeling that you are using the parking issue to “punish” me because I don’t agree with their parenting, uh, style.
Yeah, speaking of people who want to punish because they think kids should be able to do whatever they want. Nobody said anything about tranquility - it would help your cause if you actually read the thread.
Again, you need to bother to actually read the thread so you don’t look like an ass yourself, especially since you likely wouldn’t be responding if I thought it was OK for kids to act like monkeys on crack all the time.
Here are the actual facts, that you have mostly skipped over. These people have five large vehicles, in a neighborhood that was built to accommodate two medium sized cars per house, so no matter what, they cause a parking issue. Mostly for us because we have the closest shade tree. Even when we aren’t bringing our trailer home, they are a problem because their two SUVs do not fit in the space in front of our house, so they are encroaching on the driveway of the house next to us and ours. On trash day, I have to get our cans out there before they park or I have no place to put them other than in our driveway. They leave trash in the boulevard for me to clean up and break the plants there.
All of this because they like to park under our tree and you think its OK?
I am perfectly aware that they have the legal right to park there, which is why I don’t say anything about any of the other issues they create. The only time I say anything to them is when we need to park the trailer there and all I am asking them to do is move their cars across the street to the big empty space in front of their own house.
We go above and beyond with these people to be good neighbors but of course they don’t notice it because they think they are entitled to do whatever they want and to hell with their neighbors. The issue with the parking is not that they are doing it, it’s that we all put up with a lot from them, yet when I ask them to do a minor favor for me, I get attitude.
Of course, if I never complained about their kids, you would be able to see that they are the entitled asses…
You know, Super Soakers are good for more than just kids - they’re good for Dopers, too.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!! I wish!
