https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 29 May 2026 15:43:14 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-kids-on-your-lawn#post-2817460 Fri, 20 Apr 2018 09:02:51 +0000 snowjewelz 2817460@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@gestalt: The dads just nodded in response? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-kids-on-your-lawn#post-2817455 Fri, 20 Apr 2018 08:56:00 +0000 travellingbee 2817455@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We had something similar and I ended up talking to the kids and finally sending an email to the parents because we kind of know them. The kids didn’t listen to us when we asked them to stop. We have a long driveway That comes up to our detached garage that’s behind our house. Two neighborhood boys were using our driveway as a ramp for their scooters and bikes and rollerblades. It totally weirded me out because I would look out our back door or window and see kids there. Not only was I concerned about the safety since another boy actually fell off his bike and broke his leg at the bottom of our driveway once, but it felt like a huge invasion of privacy to have kids hanging out by our back door and windows. They have still occasionally done it even after I have sent the email. They are like 12 and 10 years old. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-kids-on-your-lawn#post-2817453 Fri, 20 Apr 2018 08:49:34 +0000 gestalt 2817453@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@jhd: HAHA i almost spit out my coffee reading that. </p> <p>Thanks everyone for your replies - it's interesting to hear different opinions! </p> <p>This morning our hill turned into a sheet of ice and on schedule, the kids were sliding down. One kid looked 3-4 years old (probably a sibling). I came out of the house and once i said, "hey kids..." the kids started calling out to their dads that someone wanted to talk to them. :meh: I explained it was really icy and I didn't want anyone to get hurt, and they just nodded in response. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-kids-on-your-lawn#post-2817447 Fri, 20 Apr 2018 08:23:06 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2817447@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope, don’t like it. Could you contact the school for help drafting a letter and sending it to the students’ parents that use that bus stop?</p> <p>When we go for walks in my neighborhood and LO is distracted by flowers or a lawn ornament I make it clear it’s not ours, don’t touch, don’t stray from the sidewalk. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-kids-on-your-lawn#post-2817404 Thu, 19 Apr 2018 21:17:54 +0000 helloperidot 2817404@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm a total curmudgeon and this would annoy me to no end. That's your private property! What parent in their right mind thinks it's okay to let their kids play on someone else's private property without that person's permission??? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-kids-on-your-lawn#post-2817403 Thu, 19 Apr 2018 21:03:50 +0000 jhd 2817403@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I must be sleep deprived because I read what do your kids think of your lawn. 😂😂 DS1 just told me today our grass is getting taller and sometimes he makes comments about how green it is! 😂😂</p> <p>I wouldn’t hesitate to kindly ask kids not to play on your lawn if you are worried they could get hurt. That would definitely make me uncomfortable. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-kids-on-your-lawn#post-2817358 Thu, 19 Apr 2018 18:33:44 +0000 Mrs. Lion 2817358@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm assuming if these kids are out solo they are a little older...I would say just talk to the kids and explain that it really isn't safe for them to play there and ask them to play somewhere else. It seems like having a conversation with the kids/parents would resolve the problem. You have some legit concerns. I think putting up a barrier without ever talking to anyone may come across as passive aggressive... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-kids-on-your-lawn#post-2817347 Thu, 19 Apr 2018 16:34:27 +0000 Iced Tea 2817347@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Ms. RV: <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Amagabeli-Decorative-Outdoor-Rustproof-Landscape/dp/B01JLIBXZC/ref=pd_rhf_gw_p_img_1?_encoding=UTF8&#038;psc=1&#038;refRID=VX4GMCHKZSAN5MQDWF82" rel="nofollow">https://smile.amazon.com/Amagabeli-Decorative-Outdoor-Rustproof-Landscape/dp/B01JLIBXZC/ref=pd_rhf_gw_p_img_1?_encoding=UTF8&#038;psc=1&#038;refRID=VX4GMCHKZSAN5MQDWF82</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-kids-on-your-lawn#post-2817329 Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:30:50 +0000 Charm54 2817329@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Are they bringing actual toboggans while they wait for the bus ? If not it wouldn’t bother me because I feel like that much damage can’t be done from kids just rolling and sliding down on their bums and at some point we have to let kids be kids.</p> <p>At the end of the day though, it’s your property which means your rules, and you can determine what you’re comfortable with. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-kids-on-your-lawn#post-2817327 Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:25:04 +0000 misolee 2817327@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>There was a previous thread similar to this and if someone did get hurt, you could be sued by insurance even though the ones that got hurt don’t want to. </p> <p>Also, I’ll be annoyed. I would casually say something to the parents. We have a hill in our backyard that doesn’t even connect to the streets. It snowed a week after we moved in (new build) and kids were coming from everywhere to slide down. They ended up messing up the newly planted landscaping. I just asked the kids not to slide down bc didn’t want them to get hurt. The kids are old enough to know and they stopped. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-kids-on-your-lawn#post-2817325 Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:17:32 +0000 kiddosc 2817325@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would just pop out again and ask them to stop, that you're concerned they'll slide out into the street. Since you haven't said anything for a while and haven't stopped them this time, they probably think you're ok with it. We used to live on a cul de sac and had the biggest stretch of open front yard. All the kids would come over and play baseball/football in our yard, but we eventually had to ask them to stop because they were killing the grass. </p> <p>Personally I'd be fine if they were passing through the yard, or overflowing into the yard as @Truth Bombs: described. Sledding in someone else's front yard seems a bit strange though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-kids-on-your-lawn#post-2817323 Thu, 19 Apr 2018 14:59:04 +0000 looch 2817323@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would be really annoyed by it, but that is me and my personality. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-kids-on-your-lawn#post-2817308 Thu, 19 Apr 2018 13:49:27 +0000 Jennibenni 2817308@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would be super annoyed. Unfortunately people will not be deterred unless you put up some kind of fence or wall of shrubs so you have to decide if you care enough to bother with an option like that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-kids-on-your-lawn#post-2817307 Thu, 19 Apr 2018 13:49:22 +0000 Foodnerd81 2817307@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Truth Bombs: well I also worry because the road is plowed fairly frequently- so if they slid off the lawn into the street quickly, they’d be on almost bare pavement. Unless it was before the plow came through but I would feel bad slowing the plow down. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-kids-on-your-lawn#post-2817304 Thu, 19 Apr 2018 13:40:52 +0000 mediagirl 2817304@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a stream on our property in the backyard so we don't let kids play in or near it if they don't belong to us/aren't with our kid. I just ask them nicely not to play in it and they usually listen pretty well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-kids-on-your-lawn#post-2817303 Thu, 19 Apr 2018 13:40:39 +0000 Truth Bombs 2817303@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: We had this same set up at my house growing up. My dad always put wooden saw horses in the road on both sides of where we were sledding so cars would have to stop and then he would run out and move the saw horse and let the car pass when he knew we were safe. Just an idea for when your kids are older if you want an option! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-kids-on-your-lawn#post-2817297 Thu, 19 Apr 2018 13:26:48 +0000 Foodnerd81 2817297@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wouldn’t be annoyed at kids wandering into the yard as they waited for the bus- I think it would be hard to avoid a little of that. But a small steep hill going into a main road would worry me. I don’t know what I would say, honestly. Hopefully you are done with snow for now but obviously it will come up again next year. </p> <p>We have a small hill for our front yard with no real barrier to the street and I won’t let my kids sled down it because I don’t think they should sled right into the street- and we are on a very small cul de sac with almost no traffic at all. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-kids-on-your-lawn#post-2817295 Thu, 19 Apr 2018 13:25:50 +0000 Truth Bombs 2817295@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The kids who live behind our house cut through my yard every day when they walk home from where the bus drops them and I don't care at all. They also often overflow in to our yard when they are playing catch, lacrosse, etc and again, I don't care because it's just incidental in using/getting to their own home. But if kids were coming from all around the neighborhood specifically to use my yard for entertainment (which also happens to be dangerous) without my permission I would be really weirded out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-kids-on-your-lawn#post-2817293 Thu, 19 Apr 2018 13:18:03 +0000 Ms. RV 2817293@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Iced Tea: Total thread jack... but can you post a link of that item? The house I am building will have a slightly raised manhole in the yard that I want to put edging around and the one that you posted looks awesome! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-kids-on-your-lawn#post-2817287 Thu, 19 Apr 2018 13:03:06 +0000 Iced Tea 2817287@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Personally, I wouldn’t be bothered by it. But since you are, I think you need to put a barrier in place. How about those short garden-edging fences that you just push into the ground? </p> [attach=5302/18/p7g257.277x600.664E6A0C-C269-4750-BBAE-18A4A6735ADF.png] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-kids-on-your-lawn#post-2817282 Thu, 19 Apr 2018 12:53:34 +0000 pinkcupcake 2817282@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would not be okay with that and as a parent, I would not allow my children to play on someone else’s property ... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-kids-on-your-lawn#post-2817280 Thu, 19 Apr 2018 12:39:09 +0000 gestalt 2817280@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Ms. RV: Thanks, i found the post! @Ajsmommy:@Hypatia: A fence or shrubs would not work - it's a steep but small front yard.</p> <p>@Becky: Thanks for your response. it's not a suburb and seems to have more of a community feel. The parents are about 90 feet away, but i think we can agree that parents don't feel the need to supervise the older they get, especially between 6-9 years. We do not let our kids slide down the hill because there isn't enough of a buffer between the sidewalk and busy road, and my youngest is extremely accident-prone. If the kids knocked and asked if they could use our hill, i would be less annoyed - it's a weird sense of entitlement. </p> <p>@Madison43: Our house is actually 2 houses down from the school bus stop. Hopefully the sun will melt it away soon! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-kids-on-your-lawn#post-2817279 Thu, 19 Apr 2018 12:38:05 +0000 Mrs D 2817279@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope...not okay. We live in an "open" neighborhood, no fences or anything (unless required by law) and still people generally accept the rule of keeping to your own property. Of course, its different depending on your relationship with the home owner.</p> <p>And the liability angle concerns me big time. Even if the parent is watching - actually that makes it worse...its weird to me to think of a parent standing a watching kids play on a yard they were not invited to?... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-kids-on-your-lawn#post-2817275 Thu, 19 Apr 2018 12:32:05 +0000 Mama Bird 2817275@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If I'm not mistaken, there's an actual legal term for this - attractive nuisance. In other words, something that's both attractive to people who have no business using it, and can get them hurt. I'm pretty sure not preventing access to one of those can get you sued if someone is hurt. I'd put up a fence. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-kids-on-your-lawn#post-2817272 Thu, 19 Apr 2018 12:26:42 +0000 Madison43 2817272@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think I would be annoyed also, but unfortunately think it’s probably expected given your location is front of the bus stop. If kids were playing out front on a Saturday snow day, that would be one thing but for the 10 mins that they are waiting for the bus, I’d probably let it go. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-kids-on-your-lawn#post-2817265 Thu, 19 Apr 2018 12:09:25 +0000 Becky 2817265@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Ajsmommy: I think maybe I live in a more open community than many because yes. We have this tree swing at our house and when we moved in 2 years ago kids would come over and use it all the time. Some of them were from right next door, some we had no idea where they came from but it helped us get to know our neighbors. People always think I’m being weird if I tell my kids not to go in their yard (like the from when we’re walking). So now I let my kids wander around and because of it I’ve met so many more people. I’m very introverted and nervous and this has actually helped me to get to know more people. I grew up in the boonies and dreamed of just running into a neighbors house to play so this is pretty ideal for me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-kids-on-your-lawn#post-2817261 Thu, 19 Apr 2018 12:00:00 +0000 Ajsmommy 2817261@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Becky: you don't find it odd that parents are letting kids use someone elses property without permission? I promise I'm not trying to be argumentative or anything I just can't imagine I'd let my kids go onto someone else's property without express permission.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-kids-on-your-lawn#post-2817259 Thu, 19 Apr 2018 11:56:33 +0000 Ajsmommy 2817259@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't think I'd like this either especially if myself or my own kids weren't involved. </p> <p>I'd probably think about some shrubbery or a fence as suggested above.</p> <p>I find it kind of odd that the parents let them use your lawn to slide on.... I can't imagine I'd let DD slide on anyone else's lawn. I mean it just seems odd and they are not invited.... it'd be like us just going to someone's yard when it snows and sliding without permission.... weird IMO </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-kids-on-your-lawn#post-2817258 Thu, 19 Apr 2018 11:55:57 +0000 Becky 2817258@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I’m raising my hand to say “relax!” I think as one of the parents at the bus stop I would be offended that you didn’t think I was keeping an eye on my kids. I’m guessing you let your kids and their friends play on it, and that you keep an eye on them just like these parents are (even if just with the eyes in the back of their heads). I would also weigh the likelihood that someone gets hurt (unlikely) to the likelihood you’re going to be seen as the worrywort or curmudgeon (likely). We could be in very different situations but I chose to live where I live because it’s a community and I want to be part of it, not put up walls (or fences). And I don’t think you’re being curmudgeonly, you’re being cautious but we have to check ourselves when our concern and caution lead us to put up walls.</p> <p>Also, in my neighborhood there are lots of now adults who grew up here. Maybe your hill was the sledding hill when those parents were growing up. Maybe you could get a feel for how other families operate in your community. Maybe everyone else is totally fine with kids running in and out of each other’s yards, and they wouldn’t think twice about it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-feel-about-kids-on-your-lawn#post-2817243 Thu, 19 Apr 2018 11:25:07 +0000 Ms. RV 2817243@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I posted about a similar issue a while ago. If someone were to get hurt, you would be held liable. Make sure you document when you said to not go on the lawn.</p> <p>If No Trespassing is too agressive you could always get a cute "keep off the grass" or "keep off the landscaping" sign.</p> <p><a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/511470027/please-keep-off-landscape-lawn-sign?ga_order=most_relevant&#038;ga_search_type=all&#038;ga_view_type=gallery&#038;ga_search_query=keep%20off%20the%20lawn&#038;ref=sr_gallery-1-13" rel="nofollow">https://www.etsy.com/listing/511470027/please-keep-off-landscape-lawn-sign?ga_order=most_relevant&#038;ga_search_type=all&#038;ga_view_type=gallery&#038;ga_search_query=keep%20off%20the%20lawn&#038;ref=sr_gallery-1-13</a> </p>