What time is reasonable for children to be playing loudly in the garden at the weekend

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I actually agree with a couple of posters, if the sun is up and the binmen are out then its fair game for the garden. Maybe annoying if its 6.30 and holding off until 7.30/8 would be kinder.

9am, weekends 10.

I said 9 am, but I would also add that it's totally unacceptable to leave your children screaming and shouting all day. It's just shit parenting and no one wants to listen to it.

No earlier than 9, people work hard all week long and deserve a lie in on days off. Anyone who thinks it’s acceptable to let kids make a racket outside before 9am are arseholes imo! I have 2 kids, late teens now but I was always mindful of how their behaviour impacted others.

Thanks- there are retired people behind them too, suffering the same racket; they are literally the only inconsiderate lot here. Thank goodness not everyone is like them....

@WaltzingWaters@LilyBunch25 it's not just little people though. You see it on here all the time. First hot day, people want to put their laundry out...someone is having a BBQ or a local farmer starts burning things, or doing garden DIY for the WHOLE day (lawn mower, pressure washer that sort of deal). Or with the heat lately many of my neighbours have been walking their dogs or letting their dogs out earlier so there's barking and doors slamming or cars moving around at around 5.30am. I'm awake anyway so genuinely not bothered, but can imagine not everyone is the same.

Not justifying the screaming at all, sounds horrendous. But in general it does feel like people could be both a little more considerate of their neighbours with their noisy activities, and also a little more understanding of one another. Though perhaps the majority are, guess forums are designed to offload. Cathartic whinge and all that!

Can’t believe people are so inconsiderate! We live in a little village surrounded by very elderly people, so nobody else makes a sound - so any sound we make (with a 4yo and 7mo) is very noticeable! My 4yo isn’t particularly loud generally so I don’t mind on the odd occasion he does have a noisy ten minute, but I wouldn’t allow consistent literal screaming/shouting. Sorry you’ve got such horrid neighbours.

None 😂 mine are allowed in the garden from 9.30am on a Saturday…11am on a Sunday (Most of the close is like this, became a bit of an unwritten rule) unless there with their Grandparents on the Sunday they get picked up at 9.30am for Sunday service at 11am they were curious about God so they go to see what Granny and Gramps do at Church. On an evening usually from 5 till about 7. Summer holidays roughly same time sometimes til 8pm, if they are getting too loud/giddy they do get told to calm down.

Another one I wish was my neighbour 🙈we had approx 5hrs of severe screaming a few weeks ago and when politely approaching were told they'll do what the f* they like.

I wish you were my neighbour 😫

DS4 came out with me this morning at 7am to have a cup of tea/cup of milk on the patio. Then he pottered around with me whilst I watered the plants. He knows to chat to me very quietly, almost in whispers, though and knows if he’s loud at any point he goes straight back in.
He’s a good egg but wakes at 5 so trying to keep him in until 7 is hard as he loves being outdoors 🥴

8am for very quiet play (and they’d be back in if they weren’t quiet). 9:30 ish for “normal noise levels” play. But regular screaming and shouting not at any time.

10/11? Lol half the morning is gone. We spent my eldests baby years trying to get him to sleep longer of a morning. Nothing ever worked. Even tried two sleep consultants who said that to be honest, there was nothing at all they could suggest to get him actually sleeping past 6am.

Lots of children are naturally larks regardless of what time they are put to bed.

8/8.30 in this hot weather when they may have to be kept in for hours later on.

To be honest though I wouldnt allow mine to be screaming etc out there at any hour.

8am. Maybe later on Sunday.

No, I'd take them out if they couldn't be entertained inside. Tbh, most of the time on a weekend, we'd be out by 10ish doing something, anyway. But on days we were not, I'd not let them outside in our garden to noisily play before about noon. For one of my kids, that means no garden at all at that time because volume control isn't their strong point.

That then gives me the leverage to ask neighbours to be mindful at times and for the most part, I've never had issues with people not being conscious of my kids being next door.

From 12 up until pretty much bedtime, they can let rip outside. They're allowed to be kids, but only in the most social hours!

And you made sure they got up at a time that meant they didn’t want (need!) to go into the garden until 12… my toddler has lunch at 12 and naps at 1230.

Not before 8am in our house. Closer to 9am if I can push it.

Our neighbours think nothing of letting their kids out at 7am and as last as midnight screaming.

All children are toddlers at some point. I have kids.

Tell me you don’t have toddlers without telling me you don’t have toddlers…

no, but the logic is that if it’s ok one morning why not other mornings? Same with building noise, it 6 days a week.

9 am on a Saturday, 10am on a Sunday. Always to be brought in immediately if they're screeching, screaming or acting in any other kind of anti-social way.

Are you her neighbour?

Personally think 9am. When it’s Easter and we do the egg hunt in the garden I don’t let them out till 9. Our NDN has had her DC out shrieking at 8 before but I think it’s too early even though we’ve been up ages by that point. We have couples without children on the street so it’s a bit selfish.