Got the letter today:

Residents,

It has come to the Lincoln Military Housing's attention that there is an ongoing issue with unattended children. We are asking for every resident's cooperation on this matter. Per the Combat Center Order no child under 9 are allowed to be unattended in the parks or housing areas.

Chapter 4 Paragraph 30-B

Parents are responsible for the clean up of playground areas and for the safety and supervision of their children. Children under the age of 9 are not allowed in the playground area unless a parent of a child, the age of 12 or older, accompanies them (Must be a sibling). Parents must ensure that their children play in authorized areas only and are reminded that they are accountable for their children's actions. Residents who witness children of any age vandalizing a playground or any government equipment should determine who the children are, inform the parents, and provide the information to Lincoln Military Housing office, or PMO.

This also applies to children walking to and from school. We have received numerous complaints due to children riding bikes, scooters, skateboards in the streets, walking out in front of cars, and fighting. Please discuss bike safety and pedestrian safety with your children, a great website to visit

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If you have any questions please call the office 760-368-4500

We thank you in advance for your families cooperation. 

Doubt anyone this letter is actually addressing is going to give this the time of day. 

Doubt anyone this letter is actually addressing is going to give this the time of day.

Probably not because the kids are learning these bad habits from them. 

Seriously??? WTH is wrong with these individuals & their lack of judgement in parenting. Do they think that just because they live in Military housing their kids are safe to roam unsupervised?

It's pretty pathetic if the Military & housing have a volume of complaints, that they are not only including it as a combat center order...but they are now having to send out reminder notices!

Take responsibility for the life you created & get your damn priorities straight.

Oh, same goes for pets...you wanted them, take responsibility for them 

Wowee... 

They always come and trash the playground behind my house. They tie stuff up around the slides and stuff. It's ridiculous!!! The MP's have to go around and untie everything around the stop signs and stuff also. I have seen them doing it a ton of times! It is a waste of time for them. 

I had two little kids try and chase my puppies from the playground. Don't know where their parents were, but they couldn't have been older then 3 or 4. It's all well and good that children think animals are so cute, but they need to know that they can get hurt too. I commend parents who teach their children to ASK if they can pet a dog or any other animal before just running up and trying to tackle it. You never know what an animal will do when it's scared, especially a young one who might not have interacted with children before. And of course, most of these parents do not care until their child gets scared of or hurt by an animal. 

They will respond to the letter when they get detained or they get a call saying that their teen or child has been arrested... It's a shame the lack of discipline parents have these days... 

I had two little kids try and chase my puppies from the playground.

Puppies or any other kind of animals shouldn't be on a playground - nobody wants poop and pee where kids play. Outside of the normal wildlife population of course. 

They weren't ON the playground...we were on a sidewalk that goes near the playground, so it was in viewing distance. The children were chasing them from the playground. I guess that sentence could've been read either way lol. My bad for not being clear enough. 

I mean my puppies weren't on the the playground...we were on the sidewalk. Sidewalk is fair game, is it not? Not like I'm gonna have my pups swinging from the monkey bars lol! 

My girls are only 4 & 2 and obviously they get excited when they see pets, but we have been training them to ask before going after a dog to pet it, and we have been teaching them the proper way to pet a dog, ieletting the dog sniff the hand first then petting under the head not above.

I hate people who just let their spawns run up to a strange animal, then get upset when the dog is hyper, jumping, or hell even growling.

I also hate these kids who think playing/walking in the street is the bees knees. Train your kids people, it is not that hard! (general statemets clearly not aimed at anyone here, unless you lack child training abilities) 

I hate people who just let their spawns run up to a strange animal, then get upset when the dog is hyper, jumping, or hell even growling.

Amen. And then demand that YOU control YOUR animal...why don't they control their little hellions? Mine's on a leash, what's their excuse? :)

Can't say too much about the kids without mentioning the parents...at least I know where they get it from as far as standing in the middle of the street. Riding past Two Mile (801) and two people just walking in the middle of the road...NEXT to the sidewalk...and then waving their arms all mad at me because...*gasp*...I'm driving my CAR on the ROAD. Lord forbid. 

I am really sick of the adults walking in the street instead of on the WONDERFULLY FUNCTIONAL sidewalks in housing. Every day I have to avoid people in the street with their strollers, kids and pets. The sidewalks are there yet they choose to take over the streets. I tend to move where as my wife tends to stay right behind them and honk the horn until they get the point. She also has a tendency to roll the window down and tell them they need to at LEAST have the strollers, kids and pets on the sidewalk. It's one thing to not give a crap about your ADULT self but you should show more care with people and animals that have no control over it.

Just because we live on base does NOT mean this is another world where every driver pays attention so just following basic safety tips could save a life.

They always come and trash the playground behind my house. They tie stuff up around the slides and stuff.

We used to go out to our raquetball court until we kept having to sweep up broken glass every time. We gave up on going there. We have a new couple out here that has a teenage son. He walks around tossing rocks into the street and toward cars. We park the Mustang in the garage so it's not in danger which is lucky for him if anything did happen to it.

We also had a small solar decoration on the edge of our yard. It was up for 3-4 months before that family arrived. Once that teen started walking around the solar star got kicked over. We put it back up thinking it might have been an accident (like someone parking too far on the sidewalk or something) but the next day it was down again. Such a shame. 

Certain things I leave well enough alone...I had an outside cat in AL (pretty common there) and had two kids chase it all the way back to my house, grab him and dangle him in the air by his back legs right in front of my door. He was hyperventilating and thoroughly freaked out for the next few hours. I've never seen two children run as fast as they did when I opened my door and asked them what in the world they thought they were doing. Also had other kids throw EGGS, of all things, at the building I lived in. No idea why, and they didn't give one when they were caught.

There was also a boy here who was just sitting in the middle of the road with his bicycle, staring at...idk...sand? Saw me coming, looked at my car, and went back to staring at, whatever. Didn't even bother moving. I'm not sure who told them that a moving vehicle was no big deal, but uhh...someone needs to educate these people! 

I am really sick of the adults walking in the street instead of on the WONDERFULLY FUNCTIONAL sidewalks in housing. Every day I have to avoid people in the street with their strollers, kids and pets. The sidewalks are there yet they choose to take over the streets. I tend to move where as my wife tends to stay right behind them and honk the horn until they get the point. She also has a tendency to roll the window down and tell them they need to at LEAST have the strollers, kids and pets on the sidewalk. It's one thing to not give a crap about your ADULT self but you should show more care with people and animals that have no control over it.

I keep my daughter on the sidewalk when she is on her bike and we're walking, but if I'm jogging with both of my kids I pretty much have to be on the street. I have a double jogger and the driveways are slanted so it's hard to keep a pace without nearly toppling over sometimes. I keep out of the way as best I can though. But I know what you mean. 

They weren't ON the playground.

Okay lol!! 

well you guys pretty much covered it....

ditto 

There was a 3 year old girl who had no shoes on, at the park earlier today while we were there. She was kinda rude, asked her where she lived and she pointed out the house and said her mom knew she was there. :S Obviously they didnt read the notice.. 

Saw a bunch of very young kids on bikes and walking alone again today... some people never learn. 

I got stuck behind an out of control power wheel's driver! I couldn't pass b/c the boy was all over and the dad just walked along with him!

I don't mind the kids out playing, but if parents would install some discipline and ground rules, we wouldn't have all these non behaving kids roaming around. These kids just need to learn what is acceptable unaccompanied behavior. Throwing rocks in the road as a teen is NOT acceptable!