"put down your crack pipe"...Do you talk to your kids like that?

Our neighbors never watch their kids either, and some of them are out of control. We'll say something when we are out watching ours just trying to teach them the right thing. We can see the street from our living room window. If we are inside and they misbehave, we see it but won't say anything unless it might affect us. Like two days ago a visitor to the neighbors took an ornament off another neighbor's tree and took it home. As our kids play a lot in that lady's yard, she may think our kids did it. We haven't seen her yet but fully intend on letting her know that it wasn't one of ours. Our kids aren't even allowed to play with them and she knows and appreciates that. So she'll know we are telling the truth. But there is no sense in telling that kid's aunt and uncle whose own kids are out of control and unsupervised. They just don't care and simply want the kids out of the house in order to have peace and quiet to themselves. We even have to tend to their kids, if they fall. I can't count how many band-aids I had to hand out. One of their kids fell of the bike and bumped her head hart. No helmet of course. The poor kid had a big bump and felt dizzy. I brought her home to her mom, who didn't even get off her phone. I told the girl to lay down and told the mom that the girl may have a concussion as she fell hard. Five minutes later the girl was outside again, but mostly sat around holding her head. When I asked the girl said that her mom said she was fine. She was still dizzy and felt sick to her stomach now. I couldn't believe it. Later I found out that she felt like that for a week. That's just crazy. We also found out that her mom thinks we are crazy and overprotective to have our kids ride their bikes with helmets and knee pads. They told their kids those things just fall off anyway when they fall of the bikes and that your head will pop open.... Let's just say, my kids don't go over there anymore, their friends can come here...

I speak up and say something. I don't want them to get hurt, or continue the behavior in which they are acting. And if the parents have a problem with it then they need to watch their children more closely so then I won't have to say anything. So I think that if you see something, then just say something to them, since your neighbor isn't paying any attention.

How do you handle it when someone else's child is doing something wrong when you are watching? I speak up and say something to the kid and if the parent doesnt like it they'll have to deal with me and they won't like it...i have NO tolerance for children who act like animals and even less tolerance for parents who arent on the ball with their kids....DONT MISUNDERSTAND, my kids are FAR FROM perfect little angels but I'm on the ball about it and if they are NOT around me and acting up I have no problem with a grown up saying somehting, just so long as they are tactful about it and NEVER put their hands on my kids...