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Kids playing outside - how late is generally considered reasonable.

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  • #62
    oldyouth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,754 ✭✭✭oldyouth


    smellmepower wrote: »
    My mother was at home and knew I was either on the field or one of the roads in the estate,much like all my friends parents did.Don't know many parents who'd be in bed by 11.30pm in fairness.

    Still pretty much the norm round here,and in my mothers estate.Was/is a lot worse that kids in North Clondalkin could be doing besides playing tip the can or heads and nods for a few evenings during the summer.Most of the neighbors recognized that,bar the odd curtain twitcher.

    If you did it yourself as the norm, I am sure you take it as standard. However, I don't know many parents not in the scratcher by 11.

    I agree kids need their freedom and to work off excess energy, but out UNSUPERVISED, after 9pm is beyond my comprehension. Must be the other kids then that do all this anti-social shlt


  • #63
    sassyj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 740 ✭✭✭sassyj


    Iwasfrozen wrote: »
    Why would I care if they're scratching their eyes in front of an xbox?

    I do care about them making noise though. Children should be seen and not heard.

    I really dislike that expression, belongs to days past.


  • #64
    my teapot is orange
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 313 ✭✭my teapot is orange


    They should be allowed out until it gets dark in my opinion. That will never be past 10pm and the sunshine is only around for a little while. Let them enjoy it. If they're doing anything particularly unacceptable such as hassling particular neighbours, that should be tackled obviously, but kids making a certain amount of noise is natural and others need to deal with it.


  • #65
    The Muppet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,006 ✭✭✭✭The Muppet


    darkpagandeath wrote: »
    I think your missing the "IF" part. Depends on the area people are foolish to consider it automatically safe.


    The only thing I'm missing is all the media reports of child kidnapping in Ireland assuming it's not so common place now that the media just don't bother reporting it.


  • #66
    sdanseo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    darkpagandeath wrote: »
    Unsupervised children out late at night what possibly could go wrong. I mean there would be uproar by people if one gets kidnapped. And the unsupervised part gets left to the side, poor parenting also. Most people who leave there kids out that late at night have 0 clue what their up to.

    There's a difference between allowing your kids to be off causing mayhem and playing on the road in view and sight of the house.

    Once it started to get dark, we couldn't leave the cul de sac. Didn't stop us on occasion mind, but it was a general rule. Our folks knew where we were.

    Most of us, it must be said, also wouldn't have thought of causing trouble, vandalising, criminalising or being a general knob end because we were brought up right. If kids do go off and cause this sort of trouble it's because the parents haven't a clue how to teach them to be normal human beings - not because they don't know exactly where they are. Knowing that your kid is outside acting the cúnt won't stop them doing it.


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  • #67
    Steodonn
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    During the summer 11 is a good time. An extra hour if they are just outside they're garden or something obviously this means the parents would be watching them then


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