It's 2:54 A.M.--There Are Kids Still Playing Outside--is this right?

It is the resposibility of the parents and/or the guardians to look for these children. In my community, no child is allwed to be playing or roaming outside beyond the time of 10 in the evening. To avoid any untoward incident and for the health of the children, they must be inside the house during the night. I could not really fathom why parents are letting that to happen. Parents have to do their job of caring for their children day or night.

yes,i do .there is lack of parental discipline everywhere. It seems like they don't care what the kids do as long as they aren't bothering them. and they wonder why the crime rate is rising among the kids.maybe if they started acting like the parents instead of letting the kids dictate what they are and arent gonna do and checked on them,maybe the crime rate would go down

What is wrong with the parents heads to let their children stay up that late let alone be outside?? In my area i'm the only one that has children still in school. Everyone else's are in collage so they are all grown up sort of. Any ways my oldest is going to be 7 on july 15th. I don't let my children out of the house when it starts getting dark. When night falls they are in the house. I used to stay out late in the summer at age 10 but i was always in the house by 12:00. we used to play hide an seek at night. Best time to play it but my mom or my older sister was always sitting on the steps to keep an eye out on me. I was always in by a certian time though. Never out at 2:30am unless i'm waling up the stairs from my sister's. She lived down stairs from me. If this was happening where i live i would call the cops and clue them in about the noise. We have a noise ordinence here and that's 10. If anyone is making to much noise after that then you have the right to clue the cops in and they can show up to tell them to quite down. But with children they might just go and knock on the door and tell the parents to keep them in the house after a certain time. This might work just don't let the cops say who called this way theres no reprocusions on your part. Good luck.

I don't notice it where I live, but have noticed it when we have been at the beach, I know, I know, they are at the beach too, when I was a kid it didn't matter where I was when 10:00 came I was in bed. YES, 2:45 is way too late, I hate to think where the parents are, it makes me too angry, have you tried to call the police, surely there is a curview in your city, even in the summertime.

They should not be out that late. Obviously there is a lack of supervision, and I would call the cops.

Maybe it's the only "cool" time they have to play? I do find it hard to believe that parents would allow their children out at that hour!

Those kids should have been in bed. The latest my kids are outside in the summer is about 10pm. Then they are told to come in and go to bed. I cant believe those parents let there kids stay up that late.

What city do you live in? If I saw children that young outside playing in my city at almost 3 a.m. I am on the phone with the police giving descriptions. If their parents won't show that they care than I sure will. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~

I see this every now and again also in my area, and I think it's part of why there is such a high crime rate. These kids are going to grow up to be punks and thugs. There is no reason for them to be out at that time of night. Their parents don't give a ****, or else the kids wouldn't be out there.

In my area we have a similar type problem. It's usually only until school starts back up, but to me letting your kids play outside til the wee hours of the morning is just simply wrong. Seeing as they very well could get kidnapped or something much worse may happen to them. I don't think there is a problem with allowing children to stay up late during the weekend or summer months, but only if they stay inside and don't disturb others. I never really had a bedtime on weekends and the summer, but I always had to be inside at a certain time otherwise I would get in big trouble. And if I were to get noisy to the point that it was waking someone else up, than I would have to go straight to bed. Heck I think parental discipline is becoming a big problem no matter what it is these days. Half the stuff I see children doing these day, if I even thought about doing it I would wind up grounded for a week or more. And these kids are just getting away with it. And when you try to point out to the parents that their child is doing something remotely dangerous, the parents will basically just tell you "stop telling me how to raise my kids". Plus I think it has a lot to do with the laws that have been passed to protect kids from child abuse, but at the same time these same laws are being abused, and it makes even more harder for a parent to discipline their child, without being called out on child abuse. Its really a no win situation we have going on for ourselves as parents. We either don't discipline enough, or are to worried about CPS being shoved down our throats if we do discipline our child(ren).

Right across the hall from me, the neighbor from hell, has a couple kids staying with him, and I believe they are his sons. His sons brought over some friends, including one girl, which I don't find acceptable. At midnight I can hear these ten year olds back behind my apartment. I believe my neighbor was sleeping. I couldn't fathom one single reason that would explain why he let them out that late.

I haven't noticed this but do agree that is rediculous and kids that age need to be home in bed at that time of the day. Here at the new house it's way out in the country and the only neighbors have little little kids so we don't have it here but my 2 younger kids that live in the same house, 21 and 16 both tend to be up late but are usually on the computer or occassionally will set out in the back yard.

i sure do nowadays! i went to the store late one night to get something for mom..it must have been 12:30 am..right around the time the bars close..and there were 10 yr olds running around on the main drag,no parent in sight. i was like what the..? you got to wonder if the parents are even home when you see that.

this is very strange thing for me, I never ever expected playing kids at 2:45 am in the night

ive certainly heard of the lack of parental control, i hear it every morning in a collection of loud voices and of kids abusing us in the street while parents watch on. However, ive not yet come across them out on the street at such an hour, what do they expect their kids to turn out like? blessed be

No- I don't thankfully- If we have a party ir get together I make sure all of the kids are in the house by midnight- (summer) and they are either watching a movie or sleeping- I live in the country so there are not alot of kids in the area- I can't imagine letting my daughter stay out that late and she is 10- I had a curfew also when I was a child- When we go downtown to friends houses I still make sure she is inside- usually by midnight- and the kids only play in the yard but we are out there with them- playing disco frisbee (light up frisbee) or swimming or something together- Where are there parents!

Parents should be responsible for their children's behavior before it's too late. They should check them if they go astray, like playing at wee hours at night or dawn, and disturbing people. If these parents cannot discipline their children, who will? So the best people to talk about it are the parents of these children. Call their attention; I guess you know by now whose children are these kids...

I live in the country, so not alot going on here, but we used to live close to town, and yes, some people let their kids run wild, at all hours of the day and night. Of course, at those hours, they tended to get in to stuff they shouldn't. I think the parents should be held responsible. There's so much kidnapping going on in the world. Why would a parent that loves their kids let them be out at night like that? Too dangerous.

Young people are so vigorous.just take care of ur own kids.You can do nothing about ohter's kid, can you/

There should not allow the kids playing at that time coz that is too early in the morning and besides that is the time to rest. And one thing also, they must consider the other people who are sleeping they might be disturb