What happened to parenting?

I ask myself this question almost daily. I am so sick of unattended children running the neighborhood and terrorizing animals and other children. It really bothers me!

When my daughter goes outside to play she is not allowed to leave my sight. She is not allowed to play outside alone, and she is not allowed to leave my property unless my I am with her.

In our neighborhood there are 6 children. We have the twin terrors, the friendly 5 year old, the surly 6 year old, and our naughty neighbor. My poor daughter is the graceless girl. I don't think that she could walk without tripping over her own feet to save her life.

I have taught my daughter to be well mannered, follow rules, share, and respect others. I have showed her what it means to be a good person by trying to set a good example for her. I am proud of the way she is comming up. Sure she has fits and misbehaves sometimes; what kid doesn't?

The occasional mishap is NOT what bothers me. What really gets me is this:

• The twins; they always bring their twin black labs (not on leashes) and have been caught hitting, kicking and choking my dog who stays on a leash. (He's a toy poodle just FYI)


• The friendly 5 year old is wonderful, polite respectful and courteous, until the surly 6 year old comes around


• The surly 6 year old is just plain wild!!! She demands to come into my house to play. (Like that's going to happen; I don't know her parents!) She demands food and drinks everytime she comes over. She breaks toys and thinks it's funny. She will not share, follow rules, or be polite.


• The naughty neighbor just will not follow rules! She is polite and quite tenderhearted, but for some odd reason she just will not listen!


• My daughter (sad to say) is a follower. She want's to do whatever everyone else is doing even if it gets her in trouble.

My question is; WHERE IN THE FUCK ARE THESE KIDS PARENTS? Theses kids run around the neighborhood like they own the place. I have met some of their parents... once. I am so sick of these children terrorizing the neighborhood. I am ready to make these parents pay for a privacy fence for me. I don't want these awful kids on my property anymore.

It's like going to a resturaunt. There are all kinds of families, but you can spot the parents who are always too busy to pay attention to their kids. Usually those children are just as wild in the resturaunt! GRRRRR!

I just want to let my daughter go over to their house and behave this way! If I did that I would be just as bad as them so I suppose I'll just stay here and vent. I know that the mother of the twins does not like me. This is probably because I threatened to shoot her dogs! The terrors and the labs came over then the labs started going after my dog! I told her to come get her dogs or I would shoot them. She won't come near my house now, but she still lets her dogs and twins!?!?!

WTF???

She'd rather let her dogs get shot then put them on a leash? Theres a real role model! Geeze PFFT!