[Aquinasfan]

Most have od'ed on "self esteem" along with NO DISCIPLINE.

Within the last three weeks our next door neighbor's five-year-old has deliberately smashed my daughter's plastic chair and kicked the top off of one of our landscape lights. Yesterday he pulled all the leaves off of a birch tree I had just planted. I told him I was pissed and told him not to come into our yard for the next month. Fifteen minutes later his father shows up to yell at me. "He's just five!" "He's very sensitive!"

Oh well... Next time I'm putting up a fence.

[nmh]

I believe you.

It's unbelievable how kids are allowed to behave ... and they you have PARENTS indignant and often behaving WORSE than their kids.

Age 5 is old enough to know better.

[stormyseas]

that is exactly what I meant "parents raise their kids to think that they do no wrong, my little angel" The whole time the child is thinking YEAH! Do it again or something worse dad/mom will protect me again. If you would have come to me and told me this about my daughter, boy would she have got it, and apologized to you constantly!

[jusduat]

I just can't stand sensitive people! What a headstart
this kid has to being a professional 'victim'.

[Ecthelion]

"Oh well... Next time I'm putting up a fence."

Plant a bunch of these.

Or these:

Those would keep the little devil out. Not that I'm mean, or anything.

[Quester]

Within the last three weeks our next door neighbor's five-year-old has deliberately smashed my daughter's plastic chair and kicked the top off of one of our landscape lights. Yesterday he pulled all the leaves off of a birch tree I had just planted. I told him I was pissed and told him not to come into our yard for the next month. Fifteen minutes later his father shows up to yell at me. "He's just five!" "He's very sensitive!"

Oh well... Next time I'm putting up a fence.

Might as well put your fence up now ... this situation will only get worse.

[Howlin]

Yesterday he pulled all the leaves off of a birch tree I had just planted.

I'd have demanded a new tree.

[B4Ranch]

Move before he becomes a teenager!

[Thinkin' Gal]

Fifteen minutes later his father shows up to yell at me. "He's just five!" "He's very sensitive!"

Sad thing is that the kid probably wants to come over to your house and make trouble, just to get some attention AND discipline. After a couple years, though, the father will have the victim mentality permanently etched into the boy's character. May already be too late. How long before the little imp keys your car, poisons your pets, or burns down your house?

Might as well look for a good real estate agent.