Among Friends

[NYC Susan]

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@AuntG wrote:

Feeling sorry for you.  I'm pretty lucky in that our neighbor kids are active, but harmless.

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Me too.  Every neighborhood I've ever lived in.

Some of the stories I read here just astound me.  I don't doubt them, but in my experience this kind of thing is just not common everywhere.  Most parents DO raise their children properly, and most kids are not destructive.

[Desert Lily]

It's their parents' failure.

[goldensrbest]

They lack respect of other people,just terrible they did that .

[Zhills]

It's not just kids.  How many movies have you seen where the car drove over the sidewalk, hit the chicken vendor, chickens went everywhere BECAUSE IT WAS FUNNY!  

Respect for other people and their property is scarce.

[NYC Susan]

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@Desert Lily wrote:

It's their parents' failure.

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Not always.  There are plenty of children, adolescents, and adults who had wonderful parents, but things went wrong anyway.  It's easy to always blame the parents, but the actions of children very often are not the fault of the parents.  It would be great if it was as simple as saying it's the parents' failure, but that's not realistic and it's not accurate.

[ROMARY]

Adults, too, have been fairly destructive; and the young kids see it on the TV, on the news, etc. Probably thinking that it's the normal way of life, sorry to say.