Mom Wonders If It Would Be ‘Rude’ to Ask Neighbor’s Child to ‘Stop Bothering’ Her and Her Kid

• A Mumsnet user shared that she’s fed up with her neighbor’s child
• She wondered if she should tell the child to leave her and her son alone because the disturbances are making them uncomfortable
• “Now I don’t mind a chat, but this child is constantly interrupting our conversations or play,” the mom explained

A mom is on the fence about telling a neighbor’s child to stop climbing over her fence to incessantly interact with her and her son.

The woman described her dilemma on the community forum Mumsnet, explaining that the child is making her family “very uncomfortable.”

“They are constantly listening out for the door to open or close and shout hello as soon as one of us comes out into the garden. Then they climb the fence to talk to us,” she wrote. “Now I don’t mind a chat, but this child is constantly interrupting our conversations or play — asking to come over to join us or asking where my child is and if he wants to play.”

“My son will often go inside because he gets no peace or let up from this child even when he says he does not want to play,” she noted.

Fed up with the unceasing disturbances, the woman wondered if she should tell the child to leave her and her son alone.

“The parents leave this child to their own devices a lot of the time, but even when they are in the garden they do not ask their child to get down and stop bothering us,” she added, before asking, “What would you do in this situation? It’s making us very uncomfortable, but we don’t want to be rude.”

In a Mumsnet poll under her post, 94 percent of voters as of May 5 picked “You are NOT being unreasonable” as their voting option.

Many readers related to the mom’s dilemma, with one person commenting, “We have exactly the same situation. It’s relentless. I say, ‘Can you get down please, we’re using our garden.’ And he does. I don’t care if I sound rude, they’ll soon get the gist.”

Another commenter offered a more complicated solution.

“We had this. I used to tell the child we were having family time right now and my daughter would not be playing today,” the user wrote. “I’d then ignore the child. If they tried to interact further I told them to go ask their parents to play with them if they were bored.”

“I eventually built a bigger fence was too big to look over,“ the person said.

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