Playing with the neighbourhood kids
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Topic: Playing with the neighbourhood kids
Posted By: mummy_becks
Subject: Playing with the neighbourhood kids
Date Posted: 02 October 2008 at 5:37pm
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Do your children play with the other children in the neighbourhood??? We have children on both sides of us and across the road, so I knew that Andrew would be out there playing with them, and I am fine with it. And now DLS has started they are out there later and later (like 8pm last night). What time is too late for children to be outside playing to your?? For me with Andrew as it is cold here all the time (i'm not worried about the coldness); I think 6pm is late enough for him. Am I being a mean making him come in that early. I have no problem with him being out there; the roads are very safe (but they play on the footpath and the driveway), and I can see them out our lounge window. Not really sure what I am really wanting out of this post, other than do your children play outside? And how late are they out there for? ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
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Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 02 October 2008 at 5:40pm
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We're up a long driveway so ours generally just play in our backyard and come in at dinnertime around 6. ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and: 
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 02 October 2008 at 7:53pm
I don't know, we lived in "Retired Street" so no neighbourhood kids here!!  When I was a kid, Mum insisted on us not going outside after dinnertime - that was her rule of thumb.-------------  |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 03 October 2008 at 11:01am
| i wouldn't let our kids play near the road cause it is a main one and pretty dangerous, but as for outside, until the sun goes down pretty much as we have had lovely weather. but as a general rule - when it gets cold, come inside. in summer this will change to "after bath, coime inside" |
Posted By: shaz
Date Posted: 03 October 2008 at 1:47pm
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Well it's been ages since my girls were Andrews age and well we live in Auckland so sometimes the rule change because of location, That aside we live in a really nice street /area with loads of kids and they all know each other from school etc.
Anyway when the kids were younger I would let them play out side in the back garden or at someone elses house but not on the road, footpath etc (as we also have a few teens with cars around here IYKWIM  ) until about 6ish then home for dinner and after that only in our garden until it started getting dark.
We finally started letting them go to the park up the road (no roads to cross) in groups of three or more when Alex was about 7ish. But still they had to be home again by 6ish. Now we let then walk to the local shops 10 minutes away during the day, but never in the evening. So not sure if I'm all off topic but yes we let them play with the neighborhood kids they seem to go between houses all the time during the holidays/weekends, some days we can have 10 screaming girls running around our house others it's blissfully quiet as they are at some other poor soles house  but it's great and I love that there are so many kids around and they have heaps of friends and aren't sitting at home bored all day.------------- Mum to Natasha Aroha 9/12/1995, Alexandra Makareta Waimarie 22/4/1998 and....Alyssa Frances Hopaea 18/03/2007 
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 03 October 2008 at 2:33pm
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Liz I so know what you mean, when we are back home Andrew probably won't be playing out the front of our house coz of the idiots that pull into the street going so fast. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Andie
Date Posted: 06 October 2008 at 8:04pm
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Awwww, I think it sounds so cool for Andrew (and you! he he) that he gets to hang out with his mates so often and safely, too. But if 6pm is home-time, I don't see why that's mean at all. That way he gets to see his friends a lot, and gets time to calm down a bit at home and hang out with his family before bedtime. Best of both worlds! ------------- Andie |
Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 06 October 2008 at 8:38pm
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Becks, the neighbourhood kids here in feilding seem to be out all day here. I guess being in for tea time is always a good time to set.
With dls it does get a bit harder, and they usually go out again later. I think your lucky, in that he's got somewhere safe to play, I suppose you need to ask yourself, will be tired and happy after playing outside or grumpy and fidgety if you make him stay in after tea? ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">   [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: Jennz
Date Posted: 10 October 2008 at 12:15am
Wow that sounds so great! I hope we can live in a neighbourhood like that one day  I think 6 is reasonable- My kids are both in bed by 6.15pm so I would be really mean and have to have them in by half 5 to have them fed and bathed in time!------------- Jen, Charlotte 7 & Kate 3 
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