Neighbors' kids constantly play in man's front yard and entitled parents do nothing about it, so he calls the school district to get the kids' bus stop moved away from his property

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Nov 1, 2024 7:00 AM EDT

If you're an introvert, the idea of a school bus stop right near your front yard might be a bit nightmarish.

You have children of all ages lining up at 8 AM sharp so they can make it to homeroom on time, possibly playing in your front yard as you try to enjoy your last bit of peace in the morning before work begins. Then, when 3 PM hits, your ears are welcomed by an uproar of childish laughter, Johnny Boy and his gang shaking the last bit of autumn leaves off of your favorite tree. Even when you muster up all of your energy to reach out to the parents of the troublesome kids, they get angry with you for attempting to "parent" their children. If you don't, who else will? 

This is just one of many frustrating issues the original poster (OP) of this story has to deal with in his neighborhood feud. When he tries to have a heart-to-heart with the childrens' parents, they don't meet him in the middle. This influences the OP to call the school district and urgently request the bus stop be moved away from his property. Scroll below to read the full story.

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    Asked kids not to play in our yard - parent argument ensues
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    Is it okay to ask neighborhood elementary kids not to play in our yard? Backstory: We are 'friendly' but not 'friends' with our neighbors and tend to
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    keep to ourselves (we wave and have very short interactions if they ever happen). We don't have kids but are surrounded by homes that do. We have a relatively long typical subdivision lot, and the
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    neighborhood elementary. school bus stop is at our property and has been for years. Kids are kids, so they will run around on the grass while waiting for the bus. The problem is that in our mind, the kids are
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    comfortable being here and will play around there during non-bus waiting times. There are mild disturbances such as messing with snow stakes. The parents are usually just sitting at the end of
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    their own driveway having their own conversation. The kids are in 1st or 2nd grades. Situation: Last week, we felt it all went too far. Well after the bus dropped them off,
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    they were on our property raking leaves into piles, jumping in them, and shaking little trees to bring down more leaves. We feel this exposes us to liability if anything were to happen and is frankly disrespectful to our
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    property. My wife kindly asked the kids not to play in our yard, and the mom who was in her own yard sternly said that she already told them not to do that after having to go inside for a phone call (but
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    obviously they were still in our yard). My wife says she can tell them too (thinking since they are on our property and don't know the history of them being told not to be there). [security camera footage showed they were in the
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    yard for about 20 mins, and the mom told them to leave about a minute before my wife came out] The sequence of events. played out as follows:
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    1. The mom immediately started yelling at my wife to come to her first if she had a problem. with her kids and that basically we don't get to parent her children. My wife just walks away. We
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    feel that we can talk directly to anyone on our property, and honestly doubted the supervision and boundaries set based on past observations and how far away she was from the kids.
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    2. We call the school district to have the bus stop moved because we no longer want the kids playing in our yard that they have become comfortable doing. [The school bus driver tells
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    the neighbor and another neighbor that the bus stop is being moved because the kids. are trespassing on our land even though we didn't use the 'trespassing' word].
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    3. Both neighbors (they are 2 divorced women buddies that live next door and across the street) come to our door to tell us what the bus driver said and complain to us that we should have discussed the bus stop with them first (not
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    sure what they could have done??). It goes on for quite a while but basically they were being bullies and calling us pathetic, kids are kids, we are the grinch, complaining we don't ever come outside to get to know them, etc.
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    One of them expressed that they have a history of others trying to parent her children, hence her initial reaction to my wife. They scoffed at our liability and property boundary concerns, said we are supposed to be
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    neighbors while simultaneously yelling at us, said our dog is no longer allowed to step foot on their property, we should build a fence along the front yard to keep everyone out, etc. The kids are nearby within earshot of all this.
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    I'd basically like to know if we are being at all off base here? We're 2 introverted people so are not comfortable in these situations and are a bit disheartened that this happened. We were always 'friendly' but don't go out of our way to be 'buddy-buddy'
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    with our neighbors when it's hard enough to maintain other friendships. We didn't really talk with them before, so nothing will really change now, but we just would have preferred this to not have occurred at all in the first place.
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    obvsno... 1d ago Sounds like the neighbors are pissy because someone finally called them out on their BS parenting.
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    blueher... 1d ago. If an adult neighbor ever had to speak to me about my behavior I would have gotten another talking to by my mom.
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    madam_nom... 1d ago • If the little angels are old enough to be at the bus stop unsupervised they're old enough to be corrected by a neighbor. The mom knew she dropped the ball and was trying to find some way to claim the "high ground."
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    New_Di... 1d ago Fences make the best neighbors.
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