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How early is too early to let kids into garden?

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KindergartenKop · 23/04/2019 08:26

My kids have one more day of holiday. I resisted letting them out before 9 30 yesterday due to it technically being a Sunday. Aibu to let them out at 8 25am? Surely people are up by now? Except the students who sit in their garden shouting until 2am...

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NabooThatsWho · 23/04/2019 08:27

Yeah I’d say 8.30 is fine, most people will be awake by then.

SnuggyBuggy · 23/04/2019 08:28

8.30 is fine

IceRebel · 23/04/2019 08:28

I would say leave it until 9am, unless they'll be sat in the garden quietly reading. Otherwise any time before 9am is too early for shouting, squealing, and ball games.

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Someoneonlyyouknow · 23/04/2019 08:29

Compromise on 9.00am? Although if they were digging up a road with pneumatic drills then 8.00 am seems to be the rule.

Mrsjayy · 23/04/2019 08:29

If they are up and about let them out are they shrieky? I wouldn't be chuffed if they were screaming at 8.30 but general out playing is fine

OnlyFoolsnMothers · 23/04/2019 08:30

8.30 seems fine on a non bank holiday/ non Sunday

AlexaShutUp · 23/04/2019 08:30

I'd leave it until 9am.

HogMother · 23/04/2019 08:30

I think it depends on your kids and your neighbours. I wouldn’t let mine on the trampoline or have a water fight, but the sandpit and a ball would be fine. This might be different with other neighbours though, but one has already been out watering her plants.

Allyg1185 · 23/04/2019 08:38

I stick to 9am but theres not a lot of kids in my street so any early noise would stick out like a sore thumb

TiredTodayZzzz · 23/04/2019 08:39

I don't let mine out until about 11 . My eldest has the loudest voice in the world though my neighbours must hate me.

Spam88 · 23/04/2019 08:41

Surely most people are up by half 7 on a week day? Absolutely no reason to keep them in as late as 9am.

Shopperami · 23/04/2019 08:42

What time are people usually up on a weekend then?

Greggers2017 · 23/04/2019 08:53

Half 7? I'm on annual leave, heavily pregnant and my 3 older ones are still asleep. I'd be massively pissed off if there were kids outside shrieking at that time. 9am is reasonable.

IceRebel · 23/04/2019 09:10

Surely most people are up by half 7 on a week day?

Just because people are awake, doesn't mean they want to listen to squealing and shouting children outside.

TiredTodayZzzz · 23/04/2019 09:16

Just because people are awake, doesn't mean they want to listen to squealing and shouting children outside.

This is why mine don't get out until later. I don't know my neighbours' circumstances whether they had a sleepless night or perhaps finished a late shift. Maybe they want to eat breakfast and watch TV in peace.

I have the screechiest child ever and cringe when all her friends are in the garden playing as she's the loudest. Other people have commented on it. I have to go out constantly and tell her to stop screaming.

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KindergartenKop · 23/04/2019 11:34

Nobody ever wants to hear squealing and shouting outside but unfortunately that's life. We have a nursery 4 doors down anyway!
I don't have a trampoline, I'd agree that they increase the squealing. Mine prefer traditional squeal inducements such as hitting each other with sticks.

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Greggers2017 · 23/04/2019 12:18

@KindergartenKop are your children mine in disguise? The stick thing made me chuckle

WeepingWillowWeepingWino · 23/04/2019 12:24

if your kids are on an inset day then that means that a lot of people locally will also have the day off, so 9 is reasonable.

Before we had DD we had neighbours with 2 little girls and they were regularly in the back garden from about 7.30 at the weekend (parents' bedroom overlooked the street). They must have regularly woken up about 10 households with their squealing. Christ, I was glad when they moved. (They also had BBQs right outside their back door every time their was a speck of sunshine. Right by the house (so under our windows, by our washing, both of which they could see). They had a 70 ft garden at their disposal.)

havingtochangeusernameagain · 23/04/2019 12:41

I would say 8.30 on a weekday, 9am at weekends/on bank holidays.

DH gets up at 5.45 on a weekday so he likes a lie in at weekends and I suspect so do others who have to get up at stupid o'clock in the week.

JeanMichelBisquiat · 23/04/2019 12:47

9 here, too (unless monitored by an adult and basically whispering 😁).

JeanMichelBisquiat · 23/04/2019 12:48

And no screaming at any time, or they come inside! Laughing and chatting is fine, though - I'm not a monster ;-)

PurpleCrazyHorse · 23/04/2019 13:48

I would say 9am personally but we're quite close to our neighbours and have quite small gardens so any noise is near the house. We only have a climbing frame so no squeaking trampoline or swing.

Mine come in if there's lots of screaming or shouting (or arguing) as I like to sit and enjoy the garden too.

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