AIBU to think you don't let your children play out in the garden to scream at each other/play at 7.45 on a Sunday morning!

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I genuinely thought I had had a massive lie in when I was woken up by the sound of children playing -but no, it was before 8am!

Mum has just ineffectually started shushing them but was met with a toddler screaming 'NO' at her

Now I appreciate these children may be early risers etc but have a bit of consideration for your neighbours, surely?!

Every summer - same old threads

I say a beautiful day equals kids in the garden. 7.45 is not too early at all.
Long lies are not a right.

Anyway there is nothing stopping you staying in bed. You can drink tea, read, doze. Sounds like a perfect morning to me.

Yanbu.

It was always 9am when I was a child and it appears that others stick to that reasonable time.

Usually I would agree but DD has been awake since 4 and I have in and let her play in her sand table at 7.30.

Don't judge me, I'm heavily pregnant and an excitable toddler is hard to control! I'm moving soon so my neighbours should feel soon that they're getting rid I the most toddler and a screaming newborn!! :-)

We were all outside at 7:30 this morning. Its a beautiful clear day and we had breakfast in the garden. With a 3yo and a 1yo its not going to be a silent affair.

(Hopefully) it'll be too hot for most of the rest of the day for them to be outside for long so I'd rather them get the fresh air and sunshine while they can.

Who said the rule is 9am anyway? Is this a British/daily mail thing?

*Long lies are not a right"

Neither is allowing your kids to make a noise 24 hours a day in the vicinity of others.

No it is a some people work all week and have to be up at 6am to sort kids/work so when it comes to the weekend and there is the opportunity to sleep for an extra few hours they don't want it ruining by other peoples kids screaming round the garden at 7:30am.

This has for me thinkin about the flip side. Shall I start an AIBU to complain that my neighbours have late BBQs and enjoy the warm evenings as their noise keeps DD awake past her bedtime?!

Works both ways!!

Or mowing their damn lawns for that matter

Where are all these glorious mornings, if mine has been out at 7:30 they'd have needed hats n scarves ??.

Quite better - neither are rights. So each person just needs to get on with their own life. You can't complain about someone wanting to impose their life choices on you (allowing their children outside to make noise) when what you want is to impose yours (wanting quiet for a lie in so they must keep their children indoors) on them.

Why would it be a British/daily mail thing Uri? You've no idea where anybody agreeing with the Op actually lives

Do you also get irate about the birds twittering at 4am? Perhaps you should write a stern letter to your MP

Alis, that's why I asked.

I had no idea there is a 9.00 am 'rule' either. Thank god I didn't know that when my DC were small

I quite like the sound of the lawn-mower hum as I am stirring from sleep...

Glorious and hot in Nottingham Jbck Paddling pool and BBQ day for sure.

Who said the rule is 9am anyway? Is this a British/daily mail thing?

No. Just people who think about their neighbours.

(Unlike my former neighbours who used to unleash their 5 barking hounds dogs down to the end of their garden, which adjoined my bedroom window, at 7 every morning)

Yes I do actually but that is noise that cannot be helped.

If your neighbours are the kind to have late night parties which keep you or dc's awake then by all means have your kids tearing around the garden at 7am however if your neighbours do none of those things then be considerate and keep your children in till a respectable time.

YANBU
9 a.m at the earliest. Thats what TV is for.
Same goes for strimmers/power hedge trimmers/general annoyingness.
That said we were in the street when we were little by 7 a.m, but not screaming. Is that high pitched screaming a new thing btw, as I am sure kids didn't used to do it as much??!

9am is arbitrary though. Its been light since around 4am, me and the baby have been up since 5. People are going to work in their cars at 7. Is the whole world supposed to SSSHHHHH because you're one of the lucky few who get a lie in on a Sunday morning?

And YY to tiredbutstillsmiling there are kids playing out at 8pm when my dcs go to bed. I think its a glorious sound.

Children shouldn't be out till 10 am IMHO. I wish people would have a bit of consideration for neighbours. I know several people plagued by loud music, barking dogs and screaming kids. There is absolutely no need for screaming whatsoever.

BTW this is not an area of law I am familiar with but doesn't the Noise Act 1996 ban loud residential noise between 11 pm and 7 am? So be grateful they did not go out until 7.45!

Yabu. Because mine are early riders and early (7pm) to bed. But I have the neighbourhood children playing underneath my dc's window until gone 8 weekdays, 9pm or later at weekends now the longer days are here.

We have a trade off. I no longer grumble if theirs are out late, but they can't about my dc being in the back garden early - no way would I let them on the street before 9am.

However, we do both check our dc's noise levels and screaming and shouting for the sake of it is not tolerated.

9 is early enough on a Sunday, any earlier is inconsiderate.