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We live on a river and I yell at people all the time to get off my lawn.

I'm straight up that homeowner too! LOL! Stay outta my yard! I'm in the city so I have a gate. Kids like to climb over the stoops from one house to the next. I've been known to be the crazy lady with a stick! They don't take me too seriously and I'm not terribly mean about it.

Im totally that person! Tell them to get off your lawn! They have to learn its rude anyway.

@NaturallyCathy: oh heck no. Id definitely be yelling. They need to know its not okay for them to be on your property

Haha, I totally understand! Our neighbor's son used to be "tutored" in lacrosse and he and his tutor would always end up playing in our front yard. I made DH speak to the neighbor saying we didn't want one of our new windows broken accidentally.

Oh I've done that. I'm that person! The owner who lived here before us was out of town 5 days a week so he didn't know what was going on. Plus we're the only people who don't park outside so it always looks like no one's home....so on their way home, the middle school boys use our driveway as a ramp for their bikes, they ride across our lawn, the older boys sprawl out across our lawn, it's gross. The neighbors thought I was insane for going out and telling them to leave.

@NaturallyCathy: We have kids sometimes cut through our backyard to get to the schoolyard at night and short of getting a fence, I dont know how to stop them. I open the door and gesture to them but then just shrug and keep walking.

ETA: Sorry typo, they, not them just shrug!

@NaturallyCathy: I am totally THAT person, too. I absolutely freaking hate kids riding up and down my driveway. I know it makes me a huge grumpy poo, but I dunno, it just really rubs me the wrong way. I'm sure they are good kids, but WTF, get off my property! DH thinks I'm crazy.....

@NaturallyCathy: they don't have dibs - it's not their yard!!! Where are their parents?

It would be easier if you knew their parents-- I could see going to the parents and just saying pretty much what you said here-- I know this used to be vacant, but we are trying to keep the lawn up and it would be easier if the kids wouldn't cut through the yard. I feel like if you go out and tell the kids it will come off like you are yelling at them or something.

I can totally remember my brother and sister cutting through someone's yard and getting yelled at and coming home and laughing or being mad about it. Now I realize how obnoxious that is. Kids that age have no sense.

I don't mind kids playing in my yard, but I get so mad when someone walking their dog lets them go to the bathroom in my yard!! It's my dogs territory, not theirs. And I don't even let my dogs go in the front.

@Leialou: @NaturallyCathy: One time I looked out and saw that someone had actually brought his dog into the middle of our yard, unleashed the dog, and was playing like they were in a park! When he saw me looking he put the leash back on and left. Go play in your own yard people! My yard is not the city park!

I would totally be yelling at the kids too!

Actually, as a little kid I remember getting yelled at by our elderly neighbors, and them having a talk with my parents about us playing in their yard and riding our bikes in their driveway. They cited liability issues if we got hurt on their property, which is actually a really valid point. We never liked those neighbors after getting yelled at, but we definitely knew to stay away!

Since you know the house they're going to, could you knock on their door and say something? Explain that you don't know who they other kids are/where they live but they're clearly going to that house.