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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ahhhh, OP. I am going through the same thing.

My kids are pretty young. We live in our dream neighborhood. But because the property was owned by an elderly couple that wasn’t here half the year, the neighborhood kids played on our property a lot.  And when we moved in, we had to establish some firm boundaries. No biggie- right?  Just please don’t send your kids to hang out on our jungle gym and trampoline without permission from us.  We don’t know your kids well enough to feel like this is in anyway shape ok.

This became a huge issue for one neighbor. I was actually told to move-that I wasn’t nice- and we had just moved into this house.  But dear reader, would you let neighborhood kids just come over uninvited to your property?  Just to make everyone happy so that their kids could have free babysitting on your playground equipment? What happens if they get hurt? What happens if they start crying for no reason?  Or need to use the bathroom and knock on *your* door?

I’m giving it another year to settle down so that the kids find their own friendship circles- which so far has worked. My advice- don’t get sucked into the drama.  At our age (30-40 ish), the people who talk about you behind your back are the ones to avoid the most- even if they consider you their friends.  Make friends outside of this fiasco and never mention this person unless someone else brings it up. We were lucky enough to have friends in the area before we even moved here and they helped out a lot in calming us down. Invite the parents of your kids friends from school over. Or just one neighbor. It doesn’t matter.

The best thing to do of course- is to be an amazing mom to your kids. Focus on giving them joy and that joy will multiply. 
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Did you fence on your yard first? I would have fenced in my yard and locked the gates. If the kids can’t get to your yard, they will quickly give up. [/quote]

I agree.  Fencing the yard would have been my first step.  For the dog.  If we didn't have a dog then we would have gotten one.[/quote]

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