I did it! The kids had come out to play a particularly rough game when I gathered them all around and had a talk with them. Besides one kid who was suspiciously defensive ("I didn't! It wasn't me! It's not like you saw it happen!!" ) all of the kids did a good job of looking concerned and apologizing. They said that they would go play somewhere else and THANKED me for letting them play there for a while Shortly after that I was chatting with my neighbor (the one who helped rescue Tyler ) and I warned her that she may hear reports from her kids that I'm the mean lady on the block She said that she would have done the same thing! I'm so glad that they were all so nice. I hope that word travels and this is the end of that. At the moment I can hear and see them playing down the street happy as can be