Comments on: Enjoying Military Housing

By: Marla

Marla — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:43:14 +0000

I’m with Anna, since we have gone PPV I notice a different level of respect from other people…but the kids seem to still test the waters. Where we live we have a box out behind our chairs on our front porch and our neighbor’s boys find it fun to take my DD’s balls and kick them down the road. TICKS me off! I have gone to the extent of telling them that my porch is off limits and telling the mom that if they don’t stop teasing and torturing my kids and animals I will start making complaints and they’ve eased up…But still respect for other peoples’ things come on!!

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 01 May 2008 10:08:33 +0000

I guess that would have to be the only benefit to the whole ppv thing with Navy Housing. Since the housing is owned by a private company, and you are under a sort of lease, the property is yours (in a manner of speaking).
As far as parents not keeping their kids in line, after reading those stories, I am no longer surprised that I’ve received so many compliments about my children being polite. I can’t say that my kids would never do anything like those stories, but I can say that they won’t ever do it more than once that I find out about.

By: Kara

Kara — Thu, 01 May 2008 04:41:41 +0000

Thanks for the tips. We haven’t had the chance to live on Government Property, yet. I think its too funny the saying,”Government Property.” Now the poking a stick at my dog won’t fly with her. She doesn’t like that. She loves children but will not tolerate them doing that to her. I have two children of my own and she’s very protected of them. Let me just say, my dog isn’t a dog, she’s 100% pure arctic wolf. We have had her since she was 2 months old, she just adores my kids and any other kid, she doesn’t like to be tormented. She won’t bite but she will let you know when she has had enough. When she’s outside, I’m out there also with her on a leash. She loves playing with other dogs, just do not bother my kids and she’s fine.

By: Krystel

Krystel — Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:26 +0000

Thats funny we have the same problem at the bus stop here, maybe I should go and pay a visit to the housing office lol.

By: Christy

Christy — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:58:50 +0000

I have the constant problem of the neighborhood kids (my neighbor who is like 4) throwing rocks into my backyard at my little mini schnauzer. And the neighbor, sits on his porch and just watches or the door is closed with the blinds down. Got to love parental supervision or rather lack of.

By: Dana

Dana — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:37:59 +0000

What a great post…it surely made me laugh and I am not married yet…let alone living in base housing. Thanks for the future tips and “one-liners”!

By: Addie

Addie — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:25:22 +0000

At our last duty station there was an epidemic of parents not supervising their children, especially at the bus stop. After months and months of watching these children chase each other around and push and shove each other into the street, and being ignored when I tell them to stop on a daily basis, I finally made a visit to the housing office. Apparently, child supervision is covered in the on-post housing handbook, and the parents were paid a visit by the manager. The moms were standing out there the next morning with the rest of us and their children were behaving like normal kids as opposed to savages.