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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My friend has a neighbor who goes after all of the moms with young children.  The neighbor seems about aged 60, her own children are grown and gone, and it is clear that someone really wronged her.  She is hell bent on getting young moms in trouble, or yelling at them, or just picking on them.  We don't really know what she is hell bent on, we can only guess. To say she is off kilter is an understatement.

My friends have been in the neighborhood for years, so have most of the other young moms.  I think perhaps the issue (or one of the issues, one can only imagine?) is that the complaining mom has lived there a few years longer, and may somehow take issue with the young moms and young children?  Maybe she is reminded of her own mortality? Maybe she is reminded that her own children don't visit very often (my friend says they are local, and I visit every week, and have never seen them)?

Please don't say that my friend should be befriending this person, she has no interest, and thinks it will only get worse, if that were to happen.  Besides, my friend knows she has nothing in common with someone who has all of this time on her hands (to complain)!

I guess I am asking, since her complaints are not legitimate, [b]should they ignore her, or confront her and tell her to go fly a kite?[/b]

She once rang my friends doorbell, and screamed at her in front of the small neighborhood children, that (my friend) is a terrible mother - because my friend lets her kids play in (my friends' own) driveway!  She scared the neighborhood children.  I didn't see it, I showed up right after, but my friend was pretty shaken up - over something that should have been nothing.  They were doing nothing wrong.  Apparently, this woman has a problem with children playing outside?

Has anyone ever heard of this?  [It's a dead end street, so the children are in zero danger, and wear their helmets when on bikes, etc.]

Gosh, no wonder her own children never visit! :( [/quote]

Let me precipitate this advice for your friend with advice for you OP...
Let it go.  It's not your neighborhood your friend and her neighbors should be able to put their heads together and come up with something so don't have a fit trying to figure something out for her.
Now - I would suggest to your friend that it's always best to confront people first, not only because if you confront them sooner you're less likely to be upset and emotional rather than confronting them later when you're worked up and angry and liable to fly off the handle.  Confronting people when you have a problem shows that you respect yourself by not suppressing your thoughts/feelings and it shows that you respect others by not enabling their poor behavior.
But again - I think you should let it go; not your neighborhood not your problem.  
If confronting this woman doesn't work then the neighbors may have to suck it up and [/quote]

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