I recently bought a flat in a block that has a communal courtyard in the back which, being enclosed and therefore fairly safe is usually full of unattended kids aged between 4-12 playing and messing about which is obviously fine and to be expected. However, one of the games seems to be 'ringing people's doorbells' which, in the case of mine is a hideously high pitched, very loud, jarring noise. It's annoying enough as it is, but I'm due to have my first baby any day now and with the summer holidays coming up there's the potential for this to be happening a lot - if they wake up the baby I am definitely not going to be impressed. The first time they did it I didn't really say anything but the last time they did it I called down and told them off fairly gently - just asked them to stop. If they do it again, what's the right thing to do? I don't really fancy going to find their parents as it's maybe a bit OTT and also not sure how they'll respond and don't want to start a confrontation with the neighbours, but also not sure if I should be telling off someone else's kids.. Don't want to disconnect my doorbell as I get a lot of things delivered so need to know when the postman's there.
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