Neighbors With Kids !

now the weather is warmer the neighbours kids and a couple of there friends are out and they keep knocking on my front door then running away...its doing my head in and they are very cheeky when i tell them to stop knocking... i do have children of my own but they dont play with them kids...plus the kids mother dont listen to what ive got to say....so what can i do to make them stop.

hi my neighbours kids are causing damage to my property,including fencing which i only replaced last year, i have spoken to the parents nicely first many times, then when its kept happening talks have got more heated, but on all occassions they have said they dont care its my problem. im really at a loss wot to do now, and the kids get abusive cause they know their parents are quite happy for them to do this. someone help me with some advice on wot i can do????

About 3 months ago my 2 yr old German Shepherd bit the neighbors kid (10?? yrs old) My dog got put to sleep because of the incident but what i didnt know about the situation is when we left the child would bang on our house to get the dog wound up. When my dog was a puppy we would have him outside on his leash during the day and him and a couple other kids would hit him with sticks and when the dog got a little older we no longer left him outside because of the fact that he wasnt acting right. I have caught this child many times walking in my yard and when the dog would bark he would run and do it all over again. Well one day I was at the door talking to my mother in law and the child was on the other side of my house and he ran past me to get out and i didnt catch him in time and ended up biting the kid on the back. I felt bad and called the child an ambulance and told the dog warden to come get the dog. I have 2 children of my own and I didnt want to chance him biting one of my kids too. So the dog sad to say got put to sleep. Well the childs mother is still harassing me and as ive told her if ur going to sue me then do it and get it over with. And everytime we are outside now she stares out her window and watches us. She has verbally harassed me on multiple occasions. What should I do about this? Landlord isnt doing much to help and the police cannot do anything they said shes not commiting a crime. Any advice will be much appreciated Thank You
Thanks for the help...Hopefully something can be done with her. There is no way of being nice to this woman at all ive tried. Bad thing is she didnt call an ambulance for her son I did....Another thing she was telling people that i said it wasnt my dog....If it wasnt would I have had him put to sleep?? Really is she that dumb???

How has your holidays gone, for those at home throughout the 6 weeks with your own kids!?.
Playing football against my gable end. Drinking, with next door neighbours. Sitting on the fence and vandalising it. Beer cans, bottles and rubbish thrown into the garden. Abuse. Encouraging the older teens to have a go at me if I come out!. It seems endless.

Wanted input from parents and non parents on this: I feel guilty saying no (Part privacy, part safety) and that my neighbour didn't ask me!
No kids just yet, I don;'t want to be one of *those* single childless people who are mean and selfish LOL Here's the story:
I found my neighbours kids playing on my roof garden two weeks ago, but didn't go out as I'd just woken up.
(My flat is one level on first floor, my bedroom window is my backdoor which leads onto roof. Other flat sits partly sunk in ontop of roof to the the right thus giving me the rest of the roof - they do NOT have access other than 1 bedroom window which the kids climbed up out of and onto roof. in our rental contract we are responsible for garden and keeping it safe and clear of rubbish, they do not)

They is no playing area other than park 1 mile away and we have just had a heatwave, plus there are now the two kids and two adults in 1 one bedroom tiny flat (so i feel guilty)

I left it thinking it was a one off, as Id heard their dad go out earlier (you hear everyone's everything here)
But today I heard them playing again, so went out and told them it wasn't safe (due to one side having NO wall/fence and sheer drop down 7ft to the ground)
that it belonged to myself and partner and to ask their dad to come and talk to me.
I might add, the kids have only been here a few weeks since the guy moved in, in January with his girlfriend. They seem about 12-13 and the younger one is around 8-10.
They don't seem to speak much english either, and are from I think the Ukraine. (My neighbour says he's divorced and his kids are visiting him) I knocked on his door and was very polite and just said, i'd prefer them not to play out there as it wasn't safe for them and quite frankly if I had kids right now, I would be terrified of the drop!
and that really they shouldn't be playing out there. (he said he hadn't realised and the'yd dropped their ball out the window, when I told him about the first time, he simply said he didn't know and kids will be kids, that he did tell them (thought he'd said he didn;t know?) but that they don't always listen and he would try his best!???

Now I feel partly angry that he dismissed his kids behaviour (but his english isn't great either) Miffed that he's letting them out there,
but feel guilty for being a moany childless adult (26) and asking that his kids don't play on something that belongs to me lol and finally confused as to what i should think or do. I could let them play out, but I really don't want an accident on my head or like the fact they are climbing through a bedroom window and mostly the fact that we pay a hell of a lot more for our flat because of the garden.
Am I just being really selfish? What would you parents do?

I am currently planning for children myself in the next few years, so I do try to think what I might do if the situation was reversed. In the UK by the way, but all answers welcome :0) Thanks!
Edit: one more thing, we are on a...

Not for the neighbours kids that we like, just the chavvy little scrotes that turn up every year, more or less demanding sweets with menace. I have no idea where these kids come from but they roam our estate being generally unpleasant.
Deighton, you don't seriously believe I would poison kids do you? It's a tongue in cheek question borne out of the daily irritation of watching where I live go down the pan. Relax!

Neighbours kids had a sleepover (I think they are 5, 11 year old girls) in a tent in the back garden. They were messing about and kicked the ball into my garden so I caught them climbing over the fence to get it. I literally bellowed at them to get out of my garden. Next day the neighbours son came to play with my boys so I told him they arent allowed to play together any more, or even speak to them ever again.

Just now I looked out the window and saw the neighbours daughter standing in the street outside my house chatting to her mates. When she saw me she gave me the finger.

I'm so sick of the lot of them, especially the mother (she has some gutter mouth on her), but don't see why I should move to get peace when I have been here years.

Advice please.

Ta. x

We have been living next door to a family for several months but it has been 'keep ourselves to ourselves' kind of thing. My little girl had a small birthday party (turning 4) and we invited the kids round to have some cake, play some games etc.

We had heard the couple have screaming rows before and the dad seems to have left her with four kids under 6 years old. The kids seem fine and well fed etc but they seem to be allowed to roam free.

Since the party the kids have been coming round to our house, uninvited. They are lovely but the mother seems to not keep track of them. One saturday morning I found the little boy, age 6 had let himself in and was watching TV downstairs with my little one (she opened the door because 'dan is not a stranger!!!' - but that's another question...)

Now the thing is, we are nice normal people, but if these kids are just allowed to go in and out of everyones house, without the mum checking up on them, one day they will end up in some paedophile's house or something like that. I want to say to the mum - keep track of your kids! but I do not want to alienate her.

We live in the 'inner-city' quite a deprived area, terraced houses etc.

What do I do?