As far as I'm concerned, streets are for driving. Sidewalks, front yards, and back yards are for kids. And kids should always be supervised when in the front yard to keep them from going out into the street. My wife will no doubt disagree; I'll have to put this on the "future fight" list.
PS. Bicycles shouldn't be on the street, either. Get your slow-ass bicycles off the roads. Thank you for sharing the sidewalks with bicycles.
As far as I'm concerned, streets are for driving. Sidewalks, front yards, and back yards are for kids. And kids should always be supervised when in the front yard to keep them from going out into the street. My wife will no doubt disagree; I'll have to put this on the "future fight" list.
PS. Bicycles shouldn't be on the street, either. Get your slow-ass bicycles off the roads. Thank you for sharing the sidewalks with bicycles.
Double-edged sword there, Schilly ... bikes are prohibited from sidewalks in many neighborhoods.
Wow - no need to get so irritated by differing opinion ... I was just offering my own, as a parent with experience. Hopefully you have the same environment for your kids as your folks did for you, and you can contain their activities to the backyard without them feeling contained. It's just not the case for many other families.
Not you WW. Its just that I think it is crazy to take over the street for play. I agree we all need to watch what is going on. But, it seems that many times people with children-not all people, expect others to be responsible for the safely of their children. It is not fair for someone to put a sign in the middle of the road so his kids can play and feel that is protecting his children?
But really, is it safe to use the street as a playground? I just don't think it is.
I guess they must not make sidewalks anymore?
I'm not being argumentative, so I apologize if questioning this comes across that way ... but what game other than hopscotch can a kid play on a sidewalk? And if kids on bikes aren't supposed to ride on the street but use the sidewalk instead, how long until kids start getting barrelled by other kids on bikes while playing ... on the sidewalk?
I'll stick with my own philosophy on finding a happy medium - streets are ok for riding bikes, skateboarding etc. as long as a level of traffic awareness and self-protection is employed. I don't think any signs warning people that kids are playing is going to make much a difference, either.
As I said, I wouldn't let my kids play on a throughfare; but on my street that dead ends just down about 50 yards we're talking about a small community of homes that all share the same space. The only people who come down here are those who live or are visiting; so I don't have a problem supervising my kids while they ride their bikes/scooters or have sprint races on the road.
Everyone here is of the same mind and there are alot of children playing, but should you move into my neighborhood and not like it, you'll want to be a good neighbor since you'll need to drive past my house everyday.
I'd say when we first moved in there was a little adjustment on the arabs behalf (there are a handful of those families here); but it only took a couple times of some reminders for them to learn how our neighborhoods work here in America. (Well, that one incident really drove it home; but thats another story.)
"Everybody's talking about 'Save the Children,What about the Children,Think of the Children.Ya know what I say?Fuck the children!That's right fuck 'em!I know what you're thinking"He's not going to start attacking children now is he?"Yes he is!Children are like adults,a few winners and a whole lotta losers.There are alot of loser kids out there and the sooner they realize it the better!"
If someone wanted to really impact the situation, they would collect about 10 of the "Children Playing Here" signs, and tie them to the bumper of a big caddy along with a few fresh monkey heads.
With this morbid wedding train, I guaran-fucking-tee the children of your neighbourhood stay indoors.
Where do you get fresh monkey heads you ask? well, I'll leave that to your imagination. However, monkeys really aren't necessary, after a few hundred feet anything will look the same.
All I sayin' is that is a small neighborhood you are more likely than not to be respectful of other peoples kids; all this talk about running over cones or haulin' ass no matter what is nonsense.
I would never do anything stupid like put out a cone; but what I was saying was that if I were so inclined to do so and I saw some prick running over the cone with a complete lack of concern for my childrens safety (its a stupid plastic cone for cripes sake, who cares, but if you were being reclkless in the process, well..... then you can bet I would probably do something equally disrespectful to you.
Now, as I did all my neighbors who needed a little adjustment as they weren't used to American values, I had a polite discussion with them. For most that was fine; for the one guy who felt no obligation to respect my children or my wife it got a little more aggressive. Either way, it all worked out fine for everyone on the street and on any given day you might see 10-20 kids out running around (even the middle eastern kids who used to stay inside all the time).
You can be a good neighbor or you can be a prick; but more than likely you'll suck it up and do the right thing becuase doing the wrong thing could end up with someone getting hurt and I doubt anyone here would take any pleasure in actually hurting a child.
Maybe someday you will be blessed with kids, Chuck
Gawd help us if that day ever comes. But if I ever am cursed with any little rugrats, do you think anyone would give me much grief if I sold them? I mean, our laws would make that one exception in my case wouldn't they?
This is a prime example of why you should be paying attention to your kids, How do you forget about a 2-year-old and not see them run in the street, they need to be watch at all time when around cars, especialy around exotics, poor Viper, having a kid smacking into you is just a step above getting pooped on by a bird or a bug into the windsheild
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