Do your kids play with other kids in the neighbourhood?

I would. That said her best friend lives on our road as does 3 classmates. That said I don’t think we have that type of road.

My daughters only 5 so she doesn’t play out without an adult yet but already after school her and her school friends go over to the park or skate park to play together. So I think eventually they may do the same but without us poor mums having to stand there watching 😂

My son isn't of the age yet, but I'm all for bringing him around to his friend's house and letting him play, but I will let him play in the gradern. I want to be the parent who interacts with my parents.

Our neighbours' kids are the same age and they attend the same nursery

Yes & they don't go to the same nursery.

We live in the country. None of our neighbors have young kids. It makes me a little sad. I grew up in the country too but I was lucky because there just happened to be a lot of kids our age in the area.

My whole childhood was filled with playing out with the other kids who lived in the blocks of flats. Waiting for that knock on the door asking my dad if I could come out. Sadly my daughter will never experience this. I don’t trust this world anymore to allow her to do that. She’ll start being allowed out on her own in year 6 and by that point she’ll be past that stage just like I was

I don’t know if this is the same thing but my toddler is 2 & he plays with the neighbours kids and stuff. My eldest is 5 & I wouldn’t be ready to let her out of my site even with neighbour kids.

I don’t necessarily mean unsupervised. Just in general. Do they know some kids in the neighbourhood and spend time with them (even if it’s set up by the parents)?

When my girls were younger yes. Next door had 2 girls and my 2 girls would either be there, or those girls would be at mine, or they’ll be out on the quiet cul de sac playing on their bike etc. now we’ve moved and it’s a new neighbourhood and there’s lots of kids out on the street riding scooter etc but he doesn’t play w anyone yet coz we’re still new. He has lots of play dates though since birth

No. For one, all the kids in our neighborhood go to public school (so they're gone from 7am-4/430pm) & we homeschool. But more so because we have different boundaries as families (we have them & the neighbors don't). The cops have been called multiple times because someone damaged another person's property or they take off & the parents can't find/locate them. They all let them have free range when we have a registered sex offender in our neighborhood. My older boys are allowed in our yard & the green space behind us and our dog is with them at all times. Anytime our dog barks I can immediately tell if she see other kids and is excited, alerting people walking by that she's there, or on full alert/protection mode.