What would you do if a neighborhood kid lobbed a rock at your home with a sling-shot?

@HeavenBesideYou I told him I would call the police if he comes back. I don't know his parents, have seen him with his mother two times and both times he was trying to talk to her and she'd say "Shut up!" so that shows you what kind of mother she is. Heard her husband left and they are getting divorced.

@cherokeepatti Is it possible he just wants to make friends with your houseguest? If he is just a bully, then make sure you follow through on calling if he comes around again.

@HeavenBesideYou He was friends with him but started hitting and kicking. It's to the point the boy doesn't want to play with him, and he's not the only child in the neighborhood who is refusing to interact with him either. Once he makes friends he starts bullying them. He has his own yard, a dog and a swimming pool but he insists on walking in circles around her until he finds someone to play with, he is narrowing down his choices every month.

@cherokeepatti That's sad. Sounds like he may be learning that crap from home.

@HeavenBesideYou Seems like it and at this point I don't even want to approach his mother to talk about what he's doing since she won't even communicate right with her own son. Let the police give her the message. This boy has also bragged about breaking another kid's arm when he was really young in school, first grade. I believe he is going to an alternative school (doesn't go to the one in this district). He gets home before the kids at the other school get off the bus and he's ready and waiting to follow them, has hit & kicked mine because he told him he had to go home and do homework and read and not be able to play.

@cherokeepatti Sounds like y'all really do need to get the police involved and stop this kid from harassing everyone else.

@HeavenBesideYou Yeah I guess so I think the other kids would like it too. The reason I say it is that some of the other kids are kind of following him and were waving their arms behind him getting this boy's attention so we'd know the kid was back in the yard. They told him a lot of things that boy has been up to.

@HeavenBesideYou Also be extra careful if you have a dog. The "misguided" kids may provoke the dog and the moment the dogs snaps back you become the accused.

@Heartlander We don't have a dog. He's harassing the neighbor's cats that hang out here. I'm not crazy for the cats crapping in my flower beds but I won't do anything to hurt them...I feed birds and squirrels and if the kid is bothering them in my yard/tree that is not acceptable either.

@Heartlander Thankfully I don't have a lot of young kids around anymore, and anyway, my dog is the sweetest thing on the planet. He is honestly the sweetest dog I have ever owned. But I hear what you are saying. Big hugs

@HeavenBesideYou My grandpa lived in a small village and he had a Labrador retriever dog. They have the best reputation among all dogs for not biting and yet someone provoked him one time and threw a rock at him and he snapped her. He had to be quarantined and tied up on a chain for several weeks because of it. The girl who did it would come to my grandpa's house every day and pump water from his well because their well had no water in it.