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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"I'm in my 50's and my kids are about raised. I never had a neighbor try to tell me how to tend to my yard or raise my kids. And no way do I have any interest in telling younger women how to raise their kids or keep their homes. Not my monkeys, not my circus.

The only time I would notice is if your yard had become an eyesore or your kids were doing something that affected me/my family/my property in a negative way."

DP here.  Now that you mention it, I have definitely seen women of a certain age try to tell younger neighbors how to do things.  I guess the neighbors they were talking to might have looked young for their age, but they were not stupid, so I could see how that would rub someone the wrong way.  They already have parents!

The best/most entertaining happening was when the neighborhood kids (not my neighborhood, a nearby one) were playing what used to be known as "ding dong ditch".  The older women neighbors were positively furious!  I do think some people try to exacerbate a situation - they just like drama.  Not too many younger women have time for that busy body crap.[/quote]The older neighbor critic thing only happened to me once when I lived in Fredericksburg.  A neighbor so sweetly told me that garden tour week was coming up and people generally tried to fix up their houses for that - as she looked at the peeling paint on my house!  It took me awhile to realize that she was complaining about the condition of my house.  She was a nice older daughter of Old Virginia![/quote]

Ha.  I can see a nice older daughter of Old Virginia saying saying something in a tactful way like that.  Conveying a concern with grace, tact and manners instead of gossipy intrusiveness (public shaming) is becoming a lost art.

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