Please give some suggestions to tackle the misbehaved children of others

I've had this problem a lot, not with younger kids but with kids about 8 or 9. I teach English from home. I prefer setting my own hours and being at home for my kids. But when kids would run around, try to take things and spend time being nosy I get really mad. I always have one room that is set aside as a teaching room. But I would have kids who would love to wonder around and look at things. So I would ask if I could go to their home and look around. One kid who insisted on opening doors and wondering around even after both I and my husband told him off learnt his lesson the hard way. He was going through my draws, which I had said were off limits, so I empited his bag on to the table and went through that. He was rather upset but he learnt his lesson. I haven't had problems with kids coming here, most are good. But when I go out I find kids staring and calling out "Gaijin", which not a very nice way of saying forienger (I'm in Japan), with these kids I grab them find their mothers and say in a very loud voice that their kids have no manners and the parents should teach them how to behave. Unfortually there isn't much we can do about other peoples kids I try to teach my kids good manners and give my friends the right to tell my kids off if they are misbehaving while visiting. Jacks

It's your house and home so you have the right to say as you please.. Let the parent know that you do not like that their children are playing on your furnishings. If they do not scold the child for being on the furniture, then ask them to leave if need be.. I know it sounds rude, but the parents may already be mad for you asking them to tell their children to stop playing with things they ought not be.