Quote Originally Posted by Karen View Post
To clarify, the little girl in my neighborhood who used to yell like that is now a driving-age teenager, as tall as me, and with a certain gravitas and dignity, and no one now would ever suspect that it was her who was the worst! Her younger siblings never developed that habit, even though both younger sisters are far chattier than she ever was!

My neighborhood is far quieter now, even though the number of small children has increased over the years as new families moved in!
Wish mine was quieter! As new families with younger children move in, the behaviour gets worse and worse with each set! I used to think that having kids shooting my vegetables in the garden with BB's was as bad as it could get till I saw a 7 year old rip one of my shrubs in half, to the ground with his bare hands, and didn't even blink or look sorry when I went out to scold him!!