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

I remember promising myself, when I was a kid, around 12 or 13, kicking a football around in the street, that when I was old, I wouldn't be like those miserable old gits who were always moaning at us to "Piss orf up your own end!". I've tried to live up to that ever since. 😀

Rage fuels time travel. That's good to know.

😂

Maybe if we had the same time zone all year round, and did not plunge people into early darkness in November until March, it would be more gradual.

I'm not normally that fussed by background noise, but when I am I just put some classical music on - via headphones, if needed.

Like many things in life, if you do what's within your power and accept what you can't change you end up much happier than if you just rage and seethe about it...

I don't mind the sounds of children playing out, but the sound of a ball being repeatedly kicked at a fence drives me insane !

To be fair to children, they spend a lot of time being quiet and using inside voices at school, and then out into a playground for some feral fun where noise is acceptable, so you can see why outside play = noise for them.

I didn't say that...... was responding to pp.
Building work can't really be compared to loud anti social behaviour; the first is often necessary.

Why are so many people missing the OP's second post?

She only made two of them 👀🤣

It's also pretty ageist to assume children are the only ones contributing antisocial noise in the summer.

Plenty of adults blasting loud music etc and having annoying noisy building work done. But it's kids that are the problem

@MrsCompayson I would love a house in a field, can't afford it unfortunately, I don't mind kids playing, it's the footballs against the fence that give me the rage, and the lazy parenting that allows them to do it, I do tell them not to, but it's a lottery as to whether they remember, just go to the park. The garden is too small for footballs anyway.

Are you getting your moan in, in advance? The clocks haven't gone forward yet. Or back, come to that.

I dislike it as it will be dark again in the morning when I go to work and that it will take my body clock at least a week to get over losing said hour.

Very ageist comment.
You realise pensioner's were children once? Perhaps they were better behaved.
Maybe the birth rate is falling because shrieking/thumping footballs is not conducive to erotic pleasure.....

Quite obviously, that's not children playing, so why would you describe it as such? That's vandalism/harassment.

The children playing in my neighbourhood aren't chucking rocks through windows daily and I'm pretty sure they aren't doing that on a regular basis anywhere. Don't exaggerate!

I just thank God that I live somewhere where there are no bloody kids in any of the local houses. Used to live where there was a trampoline next door - spring, creak, spring, scream, creak, scream endlessly. Drove me nuts - they should be banned - and trampolines!

We have a really big back garden. My kids have goals, basket ball net and a trampoline up. If it gets hot enough they will also have a 10ft paddling pool. They can do what they want in the garden; make noise, have fun etc. cos as working parents sometimes the best we can do is work from the patio table and let me kids run round.

They also play in street; they’ll have their bikes, skateboard,scooter and they will run around with the other kids in the street:

sorry but as long and they are not doing damage they can play out

I always think if you feel that annoyed about children making noise, playing out in day light hours, having fun, but being considerate ,you should get yourself a nice detached house in a field.

Regardless of your error. it still hasn’t happened yet?! 😅

Are you looking into the future OP?

can you tell me the lotto numbers? Thx

Are you me? 😂 Brings out my irrational side every year, I pray for rain at 3.30,our back garden is tiny and the the little fucker kicks a ball against the fence again and again, aaaaghh FUCK OFF,
I spend the summer in headphones, can't sit in the garden otherwise, fucking piss off to the park with any kind of ball.

@Sonato- Have you considered going getting a full time job outside the home so you’re not at home immediately after school to hear neighbouring children play?

You could go get a job that taxes your brain enough that you’re no longer bored and end up going on parenting forums to try to wind up parents with ridiculous complaints about perfectly normal children’s behaviour.

I love the sound of children playing. I can faintly hear the noise of the 3 nearby primary schools at playtime. There are quite a few kids on my cul-de-sac and yes I sometimes hear them shouting but that is what kids do. Any miserable grinches who dont like it should go and live on the moon 🤣

I feel your pain..I have young children and dont allow them to batter the balls in the garden because theres a lot of older people round about who like a peaceful time...there is a park less than a minute walk up the path with a big set of goal posts they go to play. The next door neighbours on the other hand let them run riot with the ball in the back garden annoying the next neighbour to them with the balls constantly going over her fence, shes taken to locking the gate and keeping them till they chap a few days later to get them back as they just ran in and out her garden for them with out a sorry missus. The neighbour down WhatsApped me the other night saying "And the fun begins for the better weather" 🤣

Horror! Quick get those kids indoors and on tictok, that’ll keep em quiet

I am not yet a pensioner but as long as I can remember, since I was in my early 20s, in fact, I have appreciated peace and quiet and been irritated to the point of pain by the kind of noise OP describes. (I am a migraine-sufferer - perhaps that explains it? I don’t know.) But I do find it hard to take seriously any argument predicated on X person's right to cause inconvenience and distress to others being a more valuable right than Y's right to peace. I appeal to an analogy to the Classical Liberal fist-and-nose principle: your kid’s right to scream definitonally ends where your neighbour's ear begins.

If they weren't out playing, people would moan about the screen based generation.