Easter egg hunt at 6.30am

Try looking at it this way, the parents have set themselves up for a very long day with excited children who will no doubt be cranked up on chocolate. By 3o/c this afternoon they will be be worn out and paying for beginning the Easter fun so early, with hours of more fun and games to get through before bedtime.

Then snigger

15 people ?
You should be so lucky !
Here we have a Sunrise Service on the prom at 6.30am. complete with drums, accordions, trumpets and Easter hymn singing. 😏

Jesus rose today. Least you can do is honour the miracle and join him.

It would piss me off but also - they’re kids. I wouldn’t take to Mumsnet over excited kids.

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This reminds me my nephews 2 and 7 are staying with grandparents this Easter. GP’s live in a large detached house on a private estate in Somerset. I don’t think grandma would do this though! Their cousins 5 and 8 who live nearby also detached house but smaller and in village, their mum is really strict (but a lovely mum!) so I doubt she’d allow this, this early either! Not killjoys.

Parents should ask their kids to be quiet and considerate outside so early. That said, I would never mind being woken once or twice per year due to Easter Bunny having dropped eggs all over the garden or because Santa delivered a bike or pony into the back yard.

Children's excitement for magic doesn't last long.
I cherish and embrace it.

Ive not rtft but I used to live in a small cul-de-sac and we were the only ones with kids.

I used to go out at 5.30am laying this mega easter egg hunt around the paths outside.

The kids would be up about 6.30 as normal due to our schedule and would be excited looking out the windows at the Easter Bunny having visited. Then I had some peoples grandkids involved too as they thought it was great.

But i waited until 8am to let them all loose haha. I did feel a little bad for the neighbours as theyd all run around chattering and raised voices in excitment with their easter baskets picking up all these eggs. Sometimes there was the odd scream of excitement but not all the time. The kids all have great memories from it.

We never did anything anti-social othewise and I was the sort of person to drop in flowers for elderly neighbours if they were just out of hospital and offer to cut their grass, pick up bits from the shop etc.

The easter bunny time has passed for us now but it was a lovely time.

But I do agree 6.30am is too early, though they were probably just excited.

I wondered yesterday if he would smile at veg for 5p when i went shopping 🤔😂

Get them to sleep? No chance, after all the sugar today, they’ll be like a tramp on chips all night.

Funny comment.

It’s performative “fun”. Bet the kids don’t even know the true meaning of Easter. It’s just “look at us” and an excuse to make a load of noise.

👍🏻

Completely ridiculous. No consideration for those who don’t want to be up at 6.30am on Easter Sunday.

I think 6:30AM is too early, but why is it worse than a noisy adult/teenage party going on until midnight ?

People do seem to have double standards about sympathy for late night events but no sympathy for early morning ones.

Really really inconsiderate of them.8.30am earliest I'd say.

It's just as easy to #makememories at a civilised hour, though.

Just play some very loud Easter hymns tonight when they are trying to get their little darlings to sleep. There is a Green Hill etc. If they complain, tell them it's once a year.

I wouldn’t be happy at being woken up at 6.30am on any morning. People are inconsiderate. It’s all
well and good saying to ‘lighten up’ but can you not spare a thought for those coming off night shifts, those who’ve been up all night with a sick child, those struggling with a million and one things that have prevented sleep. And are finally asleep. Only to be woken by screaming and shouting so early. I brought my DD home from hospital at 1am this morning. Thank goodness my neighbours aren’t like yours.

No, it’s really funny 🤣

Jesus! Do they get up in the middle of the night?

"Bellowing" teenagers or "screaming" children??? It's just perspective and preference. Same thing though. Noise disturbance.

Same thing with the time.
I wrote 4.00 am, but imagine it's 11.30 at night. They could be keeping lots of families awake. 12.30, 1.30 , 5.00 am whatever. Those teenagers are still waking up your kids. But they are also just other people's kids having fun in their own garden.
And the original point was how many of these "ooh just let kids have fun" attitudes would persist in both examples???

It's fine when it's my little darlings, not so much when it's yours.

I find it’s nice to give people the benefit of the doubt, I’m sure they are working hard to raise courteous, balanced, fun, kind humans!

Ohh wow what a nightmare. Its bad enough listening to mini screaming banshees without adults doing it. Not all the kids do it here just the ones whose parent's are not bothered. The rest are great and taught to play respectfully.

Its times like these that remind me I am pretty lucky living where I do. Its a pretty grim area tbf but apart from the odd late party everyone is considerate and looks out for each other.

My friend lives in a bit of a posh area and it is very much sod everyone else, if I want to mow the lawn or have my kids out playing at 7am on their mini version of my financed Merc because I cba parenting them ill do it.

Are you on my estate? 7am I had a family in my front garden finding hidden eggs in my lavender bush. Young boy squealing excitedly and the mom shouting well done you’re found them. Woke my son up. It’s 7am and you’re using my front garden for your hunt??? I was not bloody happy!!

the original poster suggested people bellowing in the streets

that bears no resemblance to your adapted analogy.

someone disturbing neighbours at 4am would not be viewed by authorities as acceptable in a residential area. Whereas two kids in a garden at 6.30 wouldn’t meet that threshold come on