Other People's Kids

My son just came in hurting. A neighbor child just twisted his wrist a few times. He's icing it now and I'm waiting to see if he's going to be able to move it without screaming after he calms down and finishes icing it. The neighbor isn't allowed over for the rest of the weekend.

Our back yard is like a park - all open grass, trees and the neighbors around us have the same. It's really pretty back there. Like I said, it's like a park. However, having all that open land has one drawback - it's easy for neighbor kids to cut through yards from their houses and get to our backyard in no time.

This is just a small part of our backyard. It goes off to the left and far to the right with the whole backside bordering other people's wide-open acreage.

I liked it better when kids knocked at the door and asked to play as opposed to showing up in our yard without permission and then causing trouble.