How do you know if you are giving your kids too much freedom? I think for us, it’s when the neighbors come knocking on our door carrying a soaking wet coat that look likes my son’s and two baseball bats. (I kid you not). Lets just say that in the past four days my two youngest children have:

Taken costco sized fruit roll ups from a neighbor’s garage.
Taken the same rollups AGAIN after being caught but this time thought they were smarter by asking the neighbors “when are you leaving?”
Climbed another neighbors fence when they weren’t there.
Have trapsed through every backyard in the neighborhood. (12 houses in all)
Turned on another neighbor’s sprinkler.
Chased a neighbor’s terrified cat.
Left their bikes, toys and crap all over the neighborhood.

We live on a quiet cul-de-sac. I love our neighborhood. It’s very culturally diverse and for the most part, we have awesome neighbors. However the ones without kids are starting to run short on patience. And I can’t blame them. I think I’m one of those parents I used to curse under my breath when I was single who didn’t keep tight enough reign on their kids.

I seriously do not understand why my kids have to drift to the lowest mentality denominator of whomever is traveling in the pack. Most of this damage was done with kids from 4 other families. What really scares me is that my kids might be the lowest common denominator. Even after being talked to about boundaries and acceptable behavior…they still pull this crap.

I’ve had the talk with them about not going into other people’s yards but they just dont seem to get it. What the hell is so confusing about this?

So now they are grounded. Now they won’t be going anywhere where mommy can’t see them ALL THE TIME.

Shit it’s going to be a long freakin’ summer.

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