Homeowners Have One Rule When It Comes To Letting The Neighborhood Kids Play On Their Property, But When The Kids Break The Rule, They Tell Them They Can’t Come Back
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Kids will be kids, but that doesn’t mean that they can get away with breaking rules without facing the consequences.
In this story, a father and son used to let the neighborhood kids play on their property, but when they broke a very important rule numerous times, they reached a decision not to let the kids come back.
Now, the kids’ mom is upset, and I’m sure the kids are too, but the father and son refuse to change their minds.
Are they being too extreme? Keep reading for all the details.
AITA for banning the neighbourhood kids from playing in our garden?
I (35M) live with my father (66M).
Before she passed, my mum had a very large garden that she allowed the neighbourhood kids to play in because its literally like a miniature forest.
After she passed, my father paid somebody to erect a small plaque with my mum’s name and a picture of her.
This is a reasonable rule.
I have told the kids countless times that they cannot touch the plaque or play around with it.
But yesterday I went out there to water the flowers and I saw that the plaque had been drawn on with chalk.
I was upset by this, but thankfully the chalk washed off.
The kids are old enough to understand that they cannot vandalize things.
They reached a decision.
I told my father, and we thought about it for awhile, and since he cannot do so himself, he asked me to go over there and tell their mum that the kids aren’t allowed over here anymore.
I went over there and told the mum that, and she, perhaps understandably so, became cross with me and said that I was overreacting, that she would talk to her children but a simple, cleanable mistake didn’t warrant me banning them forever.
I said that I had told them countless times not to mess with the plaque, and that I didn’t trust them not to do something even worse.
Neither of us wanted to argue, so we parted ways at this point.
There’s nothing much I can to without my father’s consent, but I wonder if perhaps it was an overreaction and that I (we, technically) were wrong.
The rules were simple. The kids broke them. It’s their property. They don’t have to give the kids another chance.
Let’s see how Reddit responded to this story.
This person thinks their decision was reasonable.
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Another person thinks it’s safer this way.
They shouldn’t be too surprised at the mom’s reaction.
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Nobody thinks they did anything wrong.
Actions, meet consequences. That’s what the kids are learning the hard way.
If they can’t respect the rules and the property, they can’t play there. It’s that simple.
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