Omg my neighbour has really upset me is this ok?

OP, there are plenty of miserable cunts around. Once you’ve aged a decade or two, you will have encountered many of them.

Next time, tell this cunt that children playing is a perfectly normal and reasonable thing and to leave you alone.

I expect you’ll meet some other neighbours who are lovely. Ignore her.

Shocking. I would set my boundaries now. Ask her politely (just because children need to learn the right way to deal with morons) not refer to my children in any way. This is a public space and I will be bringing them out to use when I choose and do not need anyone permission. I once allowed a neighbour to ask me to stop my sons playing at the side of their house which was actually the access to our shared car park. She said she could hear their scooters as they pass. I stopped them. I lived there for 4 years and wished later that I had not allowed them to treat me like that. They got worse too. During lockdown they were constantly spying on me. Set your boundaries now else she will get worse.

Don't fall out with her if you own your own house though. You have to declare neighbour disputes if you want to sell.

We have very similar neighbours. Is your house better than theirs or exactly the same out of interest ?

Your neighbour is crazy and your children were doing normal things in normal hours.

dont apologise and dont stop

I can't abide the sound of scooters,

I was assuming kids scooters that don't make a noise?

She has clear mental health issues.

I can't abide the sound of scooters, so being outside her garden for 5 minutes would have pissed me right off, it's one thing scooting past, but to linger and stay there making that racket would do my head in.

There's a lad that kicks his football against a wall out the back of my house every single evening from spring until autumn. I swear to god the constant noise for hours every evening makes me shudder.

People should be more considerate when making noise outside of peoples homes.

Not sure of the relevance of what time her family eat their meals though.

Just ignore her. Pretend you didn't hear and carry on.

My child was playing in the paddling pool with her friend one sunny afternoon when the neighbour two doors down came to the bs k gate and said "I can hear them you know"!

Honestly I was so shocked. Who on earth takes offence at children enjoying themselves?! I just thought she was peculiar, but I did ask the children to try and be a little quieter. I am still surprised when I think about it, because it just seemed so weird to me.

yup be consistently cheerful, xmas cards, smiling waving, just ignore any shyte. And good luck.

I’d pop a note through her door. Telling her your children will be playing in the street regularly, and if she doesn’t like the noise, she can close her doors/windows. Suggest she refrain from complaining to you again, as you won’t be taking any notice.

People seem to forget they were children themselves once upon a time

Noisy children can be annoying. In the evening after 6pm I used to tell mine to quiet down. People are returning from work and want a quiet sit and relax in their garden. Plus defo no screaming. Annoys the hell out of me. Taught mine if they keep screaming no one will come when they really need help. However, there's not many things nicer than hearing kids chatting, laughing and playing. You were there in the middle of the day and it's the holidays! I'd knock on her door and tell her she'd best get used to the kids being noisy in the day. Bloody hate neighbours

You will probably find out in time that she is a very problematic neighbour. She needs to move to the countryside and acquire a house with acres of land around it if she wants peace and quiet.

Don't beat yourself up for not saying anything. You are now forewarned so instead, think about what you will say if she is ever petty enough to try that again.

"Gosh! I was warned about you, but I didn't believe that you were REALLY this unreasonable..."

Or be really straight with her:

"Please don't be ridiculous. We are a nice, normal family, doing a normal thing, with the normal associated sounds at a normal time of day. I really hope you never get to experience genuine noisy or anti-social neighbours because I'm not sure how you'd cope. We are nice people but we won't be bullied. Enjoy your lunch."

Get an old fashioned cap gun and let them play cowboys like the 1970s lol! Lots of shouting lots of cap gun smell lots of shots fired.

oh by the way I’m a dog owner . Check no nervous dogs first .

We moved into a new house - a street of detached London Edwardian houses, all really close to each other. A few days later my daughters were sitting, chatting in the garden as they applied sun cream (they were 6 and 7) and my neighbour opened her window and shouted at them to be quiet, that she has a lie in on a Sunday.

I was livid. If you want that kind of solitude, don't live in a row of houses on top of each other. I went round later and she tried to brush it off, but she turned out to be crazy. Once of the girls said to her sister "I do love you" and she shouted back "oh do shut up".

It's a long story but we ended up moving away to get away from her as I was hating leaving the house in case I saw her.

So I sympathise.

OP sorry you've you had this. I might buy one of them a plastic trumpet and let them enjoy it on your next walk...

I mean, I’m not condoning the escalation…but I’d go for kazoos!

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It's not her road. Humans make noise. She needs to get over herself.

If your kids were screaming at 10.30pm I'd agree with her. Expecting people to be quiet at 3pm is unreasonable on her part.

Bet she'd be the first to moan about youngsters being indoors on devices all day too 🙄

Egg her house - in the spirit of Easter 🐣

She’s a neighbour so my advice would be to say nothing much as she deserves it. If it happens again just be calm and deal with it assertively as one other has said. Kicking off will sour you and the environment so be the better person and disarm your ‘enemy’!

How were you affecting her eating her dinner?!!

Take a portable music player with you next time.....