Clocks go back and as if by magic....

We need to reintroduce wolves and bears

I also love to hear children outside. Even with a football.

I don’t mind kids playing out or even footballs/ basketballs etc

I do mind the clocks going forward though! Permanent jet lag til October - it’s not the fecking time and it makes those of us with a delayed circadian rhythm feel even worse than normal.

Next door's sun is always banging the football off the fence. Luckily I don't go in the garden much otherwise it would drive me crazy... That said, at least their son is outside And it's their fence so if it breaks they'll fix it 🤣

I love it when the clocks go forward! Summer is on the way. I am lucky to live in a friendly community, where the sound of children playing is a joy, not a curse.

My kids are grown now but I still love the sound of kids playing outside in the evenings. It makes me very happy that they are doing that rather than gaming or being on social media.

I don't like the clocks going forward (remember, OP: Spring forward, Fall back) because then it's still dark when I get up in the morning.

If they are actually damaging property by throwing stones at windows and 'ripping down fences' that is obviously not ok. It is also nothing like the behaviour that OP described, which is just kicking a ball against a fence, and also isn't what you said in your first post ('Bomp bomp bomp of the fucking ball. Kids running about screaming until all hours. Knocking on doors. Whacking my fence.')

I'd say places with kids playing out in the street are definitely in the minority.

How unlucky if it annoys you. Like people going to pubs which apparently are full of annoying children.

Oh dear, what a shame, never mind.

I’m going to move house so my kids have a garden to kick a football in, as opposed to the tiny paved yard we have now.

That is my contribution to parenting my children.

They bang on your door, tap on your window with lumps of wood, throw big stones into your patio windows and rip down neighbour’s fence panels? Thought not

I actually do live somewhere that kids play outside a lot and manage to just be normal about it...

You swap with me for the next seven months then. See if your views change

North American? I know their clocks shift a couple of weeks before the U.K.

In the U.K. it's ythe last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in October.

Same vimes. I love the noise of the kids being out. Makes the estate feel loved.

I'm even <<gasp>> lovely to them when they ask for their ball back. You haven't lived until you've had a gang of nine year olds cheer and yell "thank you!!" back over a fence at you.

Parents can't spend all their time at the park.

Children are entitled to play in their gardens. It's why parents buy family homes in family neighbourhoods.

Balls are going to hit fences sometimes. Such is life.

We moved a few months ago to get away from exactly that issue - smallish bare new-build gardens and next door's kid (plus the parents half the time) constantly smacking balls against the fence, or playing basketball on the paving for hours on end. It was so bad last year we barely used our garden apart from the fortnight they were on holiday. I swear it's left me with some kind of anxiety as a result, I heard someone kicking a ball the other day and my whole body tensed for a sec, it was so weird. Our new garden borders a main road with lots of traffic noise but it is positively heavenly in comparison, cannot wait to sit out and listen to the lorries zooming past!

As per usual the misers are out in force.
Ever wonder why the birth rate in the UK is dropping? It's because among our aging grumpy population, children and families simply aren't welcome now.

Once upon a time families would have been the majority in most neighbourhoods and the sound of kids playing outdoors, yes with a bit of shrieking and laughter, would have just been the norm.
Now our demographics mean grumpy pensioners outnumber everyone else and their negative attitudes to children and families are all we hear.

I love the sound of children playing out - let's all send the kids out plenty over easter and reclaim our neighbourhoods as places for families!!

I have found quite an adequate solution to arsehole neighbours of which I have both sides....
A Bluetooth speaker.. Not loud as obviously I don't want to be the arsehole ndn but just blocks out the incessant barking /dc screaming . Kept at the back door and easily switched on. Every time.
Honestly I have battled with misaphonia for decades.
It's been life changing.

Children playing in a garden - what has the world come to? 🤬🤬🤬🤣

Gosh so much negativity about kids playing outdoors! Ofcourse kids (and their parents) should be considerate of other people's property, privacy and comfort levels, but I think as a society we all benefit from the next generation doing something as wholesome as playing outdoors rather than staying indoors disappearing into the black hole of the internet!

p.s. to be fair I have no experience of unparented feral kids!

Oh no, kids are playing outside, its the end of the world!

I've got a great big grassy green out the front of my house that the local kids play on from March till October-ish.

They sound like they're murdering each other half the time to be honest, but I love it, it's one of the sounds of summer.

I prefer the kids occasionally bashing my fence than the drug dealers loitering next to it.

Unless you live amongst unparented ferals you have no idea. It’s not all unicorns and rainbows where we live

@Sonato I dread it every year. Same old faces I haven’t had to see all winter doing the same old selfish shit. Bomp bomp bomp of the fucking ball. Kids running about screaming until all hours. Knocking on doors. Whacking my fence. Roll on October.

Lol it hasn't happened yet 😂