{"id":11540,"date":"2025-09-10T00:47:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T00:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/?p=11540"},"modified":"2025-09-10T00:47:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T00:47:47","slug":"the-day-i-finally-had-enough-of-my-neighbors-kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/?p=11540","title":{"rendered":"The Day I Finally Had Enough of My Neighbor\u2019s Kid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I caught my neighbor\u2019s 7-year-old son digging in my yard. At first, I tried to handle it politely\u2014I went over to his mom and asked her to please keep him in their yard. She laughed and waved it off, saying,&nbsp;<em>\u201cHe\u2019s just a kid.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I let it go once. Then twice. But two days ago, he broke one of my garden lights, and that was it. I had enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I went and bought a set of outdoor cameras. I installed them around my yard, making sure every corner was covered. The very next day, the boy was back\u2014digging near my flowerbeds. This time, I had it all on video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I walked over to his mom with the footage on my phone. She looked embarrassed at first, then defensive, saying,&nbsp;<em>\u201cKids will be kids.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I calmly replied,&nbsp;<em>\u201cKids will be kids, but broken property is still broken property. Next time, I\u2019ll send the bill.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her face went red. She didn\u2019t laugh this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And since then? My yard has been peaceful. No digging. No broken lights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes, standing your ground is the only way to be taken seriously\u2014even if it means being the \u201cbad guy\u201d to someone who refuses to parent their own child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I caught my neighbor\u2019s 7-year-old son digging in my yard. At first, I tried to handle it politely\u2014I went over to his mom and asked her to&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11541,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11540\/revisions\/11541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}