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

@BoogieTownTop probably took as long as your responses

You’ve still got too much time on your hands!

There's this thing called copy and paste....

But I am making a deliberate point with these posts, which is that a relentless whump whump whump going on and on is interrupting and dominating. It's very easy to say "just ignore it" without appreciating how intrusive it is.

My posts are attempting to convey that reality of intrusiveness and how it dominates whatever else you might be trying to do.

FWIW my house backs on or overlooks about 14 gardens. In the summer there are always kids playing, adult parties and bbqs, sometimes full on soundsystems. And I'm ok with that, live and let live. Balls being kicked or hit relentlessly against your wall is a different proposition.

Agreed and accidents happen, as long as it’s sorted, which it was.

Eh? It's not until the weekend that they go forward? In the UK anyway. So I'm guessing you're somewhere else 😁

Far too much time on your hands!

No, but pps have touched on the screaming and I was curious to know if that pp’s attitude was as entitled on that front.

@OooPourUsACupLove That did make me laugh 😂

I get it, but you're not the OP and you haven't heard it, how long it's going on for or how loud it is. I used to get kids kicking a ball against the wall of my house. Yes, it can be very annoying. I understand.

But at the same time, kids need to be able to kick a ball, and they are in their own garden. It's good that they are outside.

Noise issues need a bit of give and take on both sides and accusing the parents of not parenting well is only going to rub people up the wrong way. The bit that gets me is that OP says they should be taken to the park. Perhaps the parents are busy sometimes and the kids entertain themselves. They don't need to be taken to the park by an adult every time they need fresh air. They have a garden to play in.

Of course it's not OK to constantly kick a ball against the neighbour's fence but if OP has a problem then she needs to talk to the parents, and not accuse them of being bad parents just because kids are playing in the garden.

Very rubbish parenting if you think DC kicking football against your neighbours fence is okay. If you don’t have a big enough garden so they don’t do that, why don’t you move to somewhere with no neighbours and an acre or more of garden.

I assume you wouldn’t accept a neighbour continually hitting your fence so why is it okay for your DC to do it?

And there is a happy medium between children screaming, kicking footballs against fences and staying indoors all day on screens.

The noise is something like:

Whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump

Whump whump

whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump

On and on

whump-whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump-whump whump whump

whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump-whump-whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump

Feels like hours

whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump

whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump-hump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump

Whump!

If my DC was banging a ball against a fence or a neighbour’s wall/a wall adjacent to the neighbours then I’d have some VERY stern words and it would stop the very second I became aware of it. I’d then lecture my DC re: having respect for others around you! It’s basic decency. Treat others how you would expect to be treated yourself for goodness sake.

I despair.

Huh? OP didn't say they are screaming their heads off.

They're kicking a ball against a fence. Annoying perhaps, but it's hard to know what the actual noise is like from the post.

Kids kicking a ball around their own garden is normal and doesn't in itself mean parents are doing a bad job, as OP is implying.

If the noise is bothering you or is too early then talk to their parents, but you're unlikely to get much sympathy complaining about children's noise on mumsnet.

Children are allowed to play in their gardens.

Allowed to play, yes. But do you think it's fine and dandy for kids to scream their heads off in the garden for no reason?

And it's breathtakingly entitled to suggest those who mind should 'move to the middle of nowhere'. I'd say it's the parents who can't be arsed parenting who need to do that.

You, like many on this thread, have obviously never had the joy of your wall being used for football or tennis practice!

Whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump

Whump whump

whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump

On and on

"Just playing out"

whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump whump

Whump!

I guess it was her suggestion that the kids be taken to the park. She doesn’t like kids playing in their garden.

I don’t know why you assume hyperbole, she sounds frustrated and upset.

No. The people with children who love to scream and screech and bang bang bang their footballs against the garden fence (or garage door!) can move into the middle of nowhere in a detached house. THEY are the ones causing a nuisance, and causing people stress! Why should childrens need to be screaming, and constantly kicking footballs against the fence, always trump the desire of people who want peace and quiet - and to not being driven mad by the noise?

Everyone has a right to quiet enjoyment in their own home and garden!!!

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I have understood the OP’s post to be hyperbole! Kids kicking a ball deliberately against a fence would drive parents mad too.

I get you, I have misophonia too, summer kills me! The boys next door kick balls constantly and the park is literally at the bottom of the garden, and they are 16 and 9. Old enough to bugger off!

It's not acceptable for the ball to keep bouncing against a garden fence that is shared with other homes...

HTH.

Right, well that’s not what OP is complaining about is she.
So many people have twisted what OP has said to make her out to be a child hater.

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Not purposely, no, but kids playing football in their garden, yes. If the ball hits the fence as a part of that play, I think that’s normal and acceptable.

Do you include kicking a ball on a shared fence as considerate playing?