I know what you mean. I have kids- no, preteens and teens- who are just as bad as that in my neighborhood, really.<br /> <br /> Our neighbors like to break into our yard by climbing our privacy and picket fence, which really pisses me off, because I don't feel like being bothered especially when I'm taking a break from being around four siblings each under five years of age. What's bad, is they're all older than ten years old. <br /> <br /> Often, when me and my best friend get some time alone(we never see each other, so we like to be away from the boys for a while.) well, when we do so, they practically stalk us. If we go in my yard and lock the gate, they open it from the outside, and when I hold the gate shut and tell them countless times to leave, they just go to the fence and climb it so my best friend has to run all the way across the yard to make sure they don't get across, then I have to grab this super heavy snow shovel and threaten them to get out, then they run off- peace. Hell naw! They must say in their heads, because after two minutes, they're back at the gate and in our yard, and we go through this process until one of us gives up. I mean, really? I'm eleven years old. I don't need three boys' poop.<br /> <br /> So immature. I hate to be the bad moody girl, forcing boys out of the yard on 'girls night', but it gets on my nerves. >.&lt;<br /> <br /> So I entirely get what you mean, Dae, because the boys do much more.... /facepalm<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> But, having a small child walk into your house when they don't know you? Goddarn. May God curse the childs parents until the day they die. That's not right at all. You should call C.P.S. or the police. I highly recommend it.<br /> <br /> Excuse all my language, even though it's allowed here. >.>

That's all really insane. I would be calling children's services about the kids in the road and same with the kid who keeps coming to your house. That's just ridiculous. I don't have a problem with kids but someone needs to be responsible for them. <br /> <br /> The situation with the child that came in to your house I would have showed her my animals as well but I would have been outraged if it wasn't an isolated incident. Not at the child but the parents. I would have had the child take me to her house and I would brought holy hell down upon the parents. <br><br><br /> I'm surprised about some of these responses you guys posted too. Other people being responsible for someones kids? That's freaking insane. I think if I lived where you guys did I'd be in jail. I love kids and knowing they are so blatantly not being cared for would rage me. I'd be assaulting parents. It's disgusting I can't really think of anything at the moment aside from animal abuse that would make me more or equally upset. Un freaking believable.

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I know this is going to sound odd, but have you talked to her parents about it yet? i meen in your post before it kinda sounds like they have no clue shes walking into other peoples houses.

I hate children. :| The only thing I could recommend you do is be really blunt and tell the girl you are busy. If she keeps harassing you tell her parents. If THAT doesn't work, you may have to be a big meanie and tell the girl not to come back, ever. Harsh I know but once it's over you'll be a lot happier now that you are not being pestered.<br /> <br /> I am a fursuiter and I run into ill behaved children all too often. I have had parents sit and laugh while their children punched, kicked, and even yanked on me and various parts of my costume. Usually I just have to leave because of the parents not stepping up doing anything. If you wouldn't allow your children to hit a person, why is it okay just because someone is in a costume? Plus, fursuits are darned expensive! If the child breaks it, you better bet I am finding his parents and making them pay for it.<br /> <br /> There are also kids in my complex who run up and down the hallways screaming and banging on the metal staircases. One kid in particular can't be more than 4 years old. The parents often put him in the hallway (which is an open one mind you, sort of like a breezeway.) and they will go inside and shut the door! The child just roams the area around the apartment and there is a busy street not 50 feet away. <br /> Another thing I have seen starting to get popular, is people will literally leave their kids in the toy departments of a store while they shop. Who the hell is watching these kids? I read something that someone actually thought the EMPLOYEES were there to watch their kids. No, they are there to stock the shelves genius. Apparently that person got all ticked off because their kid ran off to another part of the store and they couldn't find him/her. I've also heard people at parks, the zoo, etc say they don't need to watch their kid because "No one will let them get into any trouble." ....wut? <br /> <br /> I honestly think people need to get more of a hands on approach with their children. They really need to teach them right from wrong and if they don't, that's where discipline (such as spanking or time outs, your choice.) comes in. I think too many people have become used to other people looking out for their children or just not doing anything at all. Can we require a test before people start breeding? :P

The kids in my neighborhood know to get out of the street when I'm coming. And they can hear me coming. Probably has something to do with the death metal and the bell ringing out the window and the occasional horn honk. And if they don't get out of my way and I have to stop my car, I'll get out and yell at them and make them cry. They've learned to stay out of my way.<br /> <br /> The only problem I have is this one kid who always harasses my dog. Besides that, he's pretty well behaved, but my dog will bark if someone she doesn't know/like is on our property so this kid is constantly just standing there while the dog goes crazy. I've asked him not to do that, and he goes away, but then he comes back. His parents response is to tell me to teach my dog not to bark... I don't think he's doing anything besides bothering my dog, which is good, because the moment he throws something at her, I'm calling the cops. As much as I'd love to scare the crap out of him with fireworks, I'd rather just have him get in trouble.<br /> <br /> The worst problem I have with a kid and the lack of parenting is at these anime conventions. Last year, this girl was running around with friends and I was dressed as her favorite character. She jumps on my leg and practically humped me and then her friends ditched her so she started hanging out with me and my friend. She was being pretty well behaved besides that first meeting incident, but the thing I had a problem with is the fact she was 12 years old. And we're definitely not people you want a 12 year old hanging out with. We're drunk, our language isn't very nice, and we pretty much walk around trolling and making people cry. Mostly it's the drunk bit... but still, I can't believe her parents just left her at the convention like that. You don't know what kind of people are there and if all it took was for someone to dress as her favorite character for her to latch onto them, that's not good. I seriously want to chew her parents out one of these days, because I've ran into her two more times, alone. I feel bad for the kid actually, and even though she's not terrible, I'd rather not be followed around by a little kid while I'm drinking.

It just amazes me how some people lack common sense.<br /> <br /> It also is shocking on how parents are so clueless.. If they don't do anything, the children are going to think it's the right way of parenting, and do that when they get older..<br /> <br /> I have very low tolerance for little kids, especially my cousins who stalk me. They follow me, and always have to do <strong>everything</strong> I'm doing.. Ugh..

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I was raised by my grandparents, who grew up in the Great Depression. I dislike most of my own generation, but I have a deep cynicism and sometimes sheer seething hatred for Generation Z and younger members of Gen Y.<br /> <br /> I'm usually deeply impressed when I meet a teenager irl who doesn't make me want to vomit rage.<br /> <br /> Can't you darn kids at least be polite? And pry that cellphone off your face when you're talking to me.<br /> <br /> Or just stop talking to me.<br /> <br /> <i>Please.</i><br /> <br /> :(

I love kids but have the same complaints. A bunch of them keeps playing on the ramp-like way to our garage, because it is cool to start races from there. No regard of who is responsible when they get hurt, or that they could crash into a car when racing out at that speed. Their parents do not care where they are either. And no matter how I explain it to them they will be back.

Man, I know what you mean, when I was young I grew up around a lot of VFW oldies, so I got old school upbringing, then had the worst culture shock when I moved to another state without them :/<br /> <br /> I lost it with some kid my age who just did not know that leave me alone meant, and had to wail on him before it had any meaning. Seriously, after 3 months I just couldn't take it any more :/<br /> <br /> And more recently I found that some neighbors who lived down the hill from us were using my mare to ride. Let me point out she is NOT broken or trained in any way, super skittish, and blind in one eye. Also if my horse hurt or killed one of them, I would have been sued for every penny. I shaved her mane down to a brush because that was how they were catching her. It wasn't enough at all :/ The issue was only solved when I randomly found them trying to catch her and I yelled at them, I guess I looked pretty scarey sense I had my two large dogs and a rifle XD<br /> <br /> <i>GET OFF MY LAWN YOU DARN KIDS! *walks after with cane*</i> <br /> <br /> I haven't seen any evidence that they ever came back, because it IS legal to shoot trespassers here, though the gun was actually for self protection sense we have feral hogs (which could have also killed the kids). Their house flooded, and sadly I threw a little party in my head, because they wouldn't be any sort of problem any more. <br /> <br /> <br /> Also I dislike kids in general because they want to touch EVERYTHING including drawings, its like don't touch my stuff unless I say its ok. You could seriously ruin some of it. And tapping on my fish tanks >:C nothing pisses me off faster, I wanna break some hands when that happens then 'tap' them on the head with my fist. Also neither of my dogs are very people friendly, that is on purpose, they are guard dogs. Once I found a random boy running about on my property, he was lucky Copper was on a leash, the dog was pissed to the max, and mom came up after was just the look of blaming me, I bitched at her for letting him run about unsupervised, we have hogs, coyotes and a puma, you want a dead kid? let them run about a while longer :/<br /> <br /> One of my cousins I get along with well enough, though he grew up in and around the medieval fair, was loving shakespear at 7, and loves theater, and has really good manners. His kind are far and few in between :c I bless each day I meet kids that I am an only child, makes me overly happy frankly.<br /> <br /> Also, for kids playing in the road I would be the bitch that revved my engine at them. Seriously I ran out in a parking lot one time and got the spanking of my life, and was terrified of roads/parking lots/places cars drive for the rest of my life. Even here at campus I see people not look before they walk across this one place that cars drive. They don't frequently, and they are going slow, but still you SHOULD look, what if they don't have good breaks? what then? Your dead or seriously injured that's what.<br /> <br /> /end rant/

<br /> So I remember living in an incredibly strict household. I was petrified of adults or being disrespectful. However that doesn't mean that I didn't play on the roads, and i didn't annoy my neighbors and I didn't do stupid things. We would set up cricket stumps on the road and play, when a car came we would quickly get everything of the road. Because there was always a few people in cars who didn't stop regardless who was on the road. Thats how we learnt, no matter how much our parents screamed at us, they were our parents. We needed to figure it out why it was dangerous for ourselves. <br /> <br /> The problem with "kids these days" is that they are being over protected not the other way around. If they are pissing you off, then tell them that. You can't expect them to understand that walking into a strangers house is rude. They may understand that it is wrong, but if your being nice to her and she gets to play with the cute animals that she was curious about, and she is having fun. Then kindly suggesting she leaves is just an invitation to return. Tell her, explain to her that you are busy and ask her to leave. You may be surprised. <br /> <br /> Don't forget they are kids and we were all kids at some point. They push boundaries to find how far they can go. They are no different today in that regard than they were many years ago.