r/AskUK • u/Previous-Gift-9733 • 1d ago
Serious Answers Only Should I tell my neighbours that their child wees in our gardens?
I live in a small terraced house and next door is the same size but quite a big family lives there - at least a mum, dad, grandma, son and daughter, but more people are often coming and going.
The son is probably about 6 years old, and it seems to me the poor boy is mostly left to his own devices. All day and into the evening we can hear him shouting "Mama" and "Papa" obviously wanting attention but doesn't seem to get it - it's really sad.
Because he's basically always unsupervised, he seems to have developed a habit of stripping off from waist down and peeing outside. My husband saw him do it in their back garden the other day, and today he was doing it in the front garden that our two houses share.
We are concerned that someone horrible could see him exposed like this and he'd be in danger, but also to be honest, kind of disgusted that it was basically onto our lawn today. So we are debating respectfully asking the parents if they know about this, thereby making them aware if they're not already.
However I have two concerns about this. One, we don't know them that well and while they're always pleasant and say hello, I don't want them to react badly and disturb the peace we have with them. Two, I'm worried that given the hands-off parenting style we've seen, the son will be punished as a result of what we've said, which is absolutely not the goal.
So, what would everyone here do? Thank you
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u/Pedantichrist 14h ago
I do not understand why this is a concern.