Neighbors kids damaging my car playing ball

I am a bit unsure how to approach this. I have currently no issues with my current neighbors on my block. We have been in this neighborhood for 3 years and it’s very family oriented, which we love. We do love seeing kids outside playing, as we have a 3 year old and a 1 year old.

I have neighbors two houses down that have a lot of kids. I remember one of them being a baby when we first moved in, a bit older than my eldest at the time, but since then we believe that the mother (owner of the home) got remarried and has step children. So now we have noticed about 4 kids, aged 4 to what looks like 10 or 11. Most of these kids play once they come home from school.

Middle of last year I noticed a crack on my windshield, and wondered how on earth I didn’t remember how it got cracked at the top right passenger side. we really don’t go further than a 10 mile radius most days of the month, so I was trying to figure out how this may have happened if I hadn’t taken the interstate in a while. So I said okay it’s not so bad, maybe my husband drove it and didn’t want to tell me or didn’t notice.

A few months later, a very large and noticeable crack happened on my windshield (driver side) to the point it was almost obstructing my view when driving. I was truly at a loss for how this could’ve happened because the evening before it was not there and I had only gone to the store. After picking up kids from daycare, and parking in the driveway, I hear a thud on one side of the car that startled my baby. Neighborhood kids had basically kicked a ball and it ended up hitting my car. No harm no foul but then it prompted me to check my front outdoor camera to see if this could’ve been the reason for the crack in my windshield the day prior.

And there it was, on playback. Ring detected them coming to grab the ball too, and carry on. As I write this, one of the car alarms are going off due to the kids accidentally kicking / throwing ball around. I had my windshield replaced, and it was covered, but honestly I don’t want to go through it again. How do I approach this to the parents of the kids, and just kindly ask them to tell their kids to kick / throw the ball away from the cars? We don’t want to come off a type of way, just don’t want to keep going through this process. The street is pretty wide, and if they need more front lawn space we don’t mind if they play in the front of the lawn even though we are two houses down. Their parents have too much landscaping in the front of theirs for these kids to play.

Thanks !