AIBU to think that children shoule not be playing out this early??

[thereturnofshoesy]

before 6 in the morning??

the park is in the middle of houses, and in this weather we all have our windows open.
lovely way to be woken, kids slamming the metal gate

Yanbu, there's no way I'd let ds out that early. It's just rude and inconsiderate.

Our playground/ park or whatever its called is right by our house and a clear sign states hours of use, which is eminently sensible IMO. 8am - 8pm is what the sign says (no diatinction about days of the week). There is plenty of nouse and activity (nothing to do with the playground) outside from a bit before 7am though.

6am is a bit early, but who are all these people on MN who don't get up til 10am? Any time from 7am most working people are getting up, surely? After that there could be night shift workers or others sleeping any time - 9am, 11am, 3pm... but unless they specifically talk politely to their neighbors and ask for considetation at specific times its martyered holier than though prissyness to not let your children play out til some arbitrary late morning hour on the off chance somebody might be asleep.

Also second the point that the gate clanging could have neen a jogger or dog walker! There are lots of people up at 6am generally. It is too early (by an hour or so, not by 4+ hours) to be making lots of noise, but not too early to be outdoors.

*hollier than thou... and other phone typos and autocorrect fails...

MrTumble where are you gettin 10am from? I think most people have generally agreed that from about 8.30 on weekdays and 9.00 at weekends is considerate and reasonable.

Vintage from Oor saying she doesn't let her DC out of the garden til after lunch and insanity saying her DD doesn't get up til 10.30am... but its not just or specifically them - every time one of these "kids out early" threads pops up the OP generally says "AIBU to think 5.30am is too early to play out" - no, OP is not unreasonable BUT then up pop a rash of people preening (not that insanity was doing this) about how considerate they are because of the

later and later hour they allow their DC outdoors... It does always seem that some only think DC should be outdoors during very limited hours indeed, and then only if they don't speak above a whisper, or god forbid play with a ball...

But neither of those posters were saying that other chilren shouldn't be out until that time. They were just using it as a contrast to the incredibly early hour that those children were out playing.

I would say the most common view on here, from all of the threads I've read, is 8-8.30 during the week and 9ish at weekends - which seems eminently reasonable to me.

Oops I have no idea why the paragraph bresk migrated to the middle of a sentence

Its a funny trend sometimes on MN - AIBU to think other people's kids should not be allowed to play out, followed a few threads down by a fat shaming thread which inevitably blames parents for allowing their indoor pets kids to get fat... 2+2...

YANBU to want to sleep, but you chose a house that was right on top of other houses. When you live that close to people noise and ambiance like that is just a fact of life.

I have never seen a thread objecting to kids playing outside.

Being outside when most people are still asleep or going to bed to try and get some sleep, yes.

If its any consolation op, our delightful neighbours are now having a huge bonfire, I had just come in from town, put children in paddling pool and just put my washing out.

they are unable to use bins normally and have a stockpile of rubboish building up so burning it. so all indoors, windows shut. and praying it doesnt catch fire along our gardens.

6am is way too early. I don't let DS1 play in the garden until 8.30 at the earliest during the week. My neighbours don't want to be woken up by him loudly driving his cozy coupe around. It's just common courtesy.

If the park is open then YABU. It's a public park presumably. If your council opens the gates that early then it's game on for kids, dog walkers and runners.

One of the downsides of backing onto a public park is that you sometimes have to deal with noisy children, public concerts, grass cutting, and foxes fornicating. On the upside, you have a nice view which won't be built on. If you lived beside a school, you'd have breakfast club kids arriving at 7am...

That said - if they are in the park and making an unreasonable level of noise then I'd say that you are justified in asking them to keep it down, but no more so than any other time of day.

Far too early imo. Very inconsiderate. You would expect noise from kids playing when you buy a house next to a playpark, but at 6am? No.

For the record, I don't know anyone who gets up earlier than 6am, and only one person who needs to get up at 6. Personally, I get up at 8am.

Ha ha ha ha ha @ 'lazing about in bed' at 6am

My family were like that. They equated early rising with moral superiority.

It got ridiculous with them getting up earlier and earlier in order to be the best.
It got to the point where if you were not up and doing at 5.30am you were wasting the day away.

Only good reason for getting up early is so you have a bit of P&Q before the kids find you.....or having a nice cup of tea and then being able to go back to sleep for an hour. LOVE that.

the kids were noisy as they were clanging the gate...once in the park(which isn't a "public" park, iti s just a small one on a housing estate. all the houses have gardens as well.
I have to say I am shocked that people think kids waking people up before 6 is ok.
but hey mine is all grown now....

and I didn't buy the house, tis HA

YEs gotta love the "you should expect it as you bought a house near a park" comments :o

We all have roads near out houses. Doesn't mean the council should be able to dig them up at 6am with no complaints

Before 6am is far too early for kids to be playing out. Mine are allowed in the garden from 9am and under orders not to make a racket and disturb me or everyone else. They rarely are out and are more likely to be in their pj's watching TV till I tell to go get dressed.

It's the holidays. Any other time I'm up from 6.30 with the kids an hour later. Except weekends where I like a lie in.

No, no, 6am is not on.

turns out they were playing foot ball, so it wasn't the gate, but the goal they have there. very noisy thing

So I lie in bed till 10am and then spend the rest of my day "preening"?

My DS is 4, we usually get up around 7am and he is allowed out in the garden after about 8.30am so that I can keep an eye on him when I'm doing housework. I don't let him out in the street until after lunch as that is when I can make sure he is not bothering anyone by calling on his friends and can keep an eye on where he is, not because I have a holier than thou attitude.

Tbh. It wouldn't bother me unless they were small and unsupervised, or particularly noisy.
It's just ppl going about their day.

Ah, the evil football

No Vintage you are right, there aren't usially threads saying kidd should never play out, but frequent ones which come to the conclusion nobody should hear them do it - and lots of pursed lips and conditions about times (obviously 6am is too early, but lots of people invent later times and are competitive about how much they restrict/ed their DC). Ball games esp football seem universally disapproved of. Adult noise (lawn mowing, striming, building work, civilized outdoir parties, dogs if not left alone) are far more universally tolerated. There is always a poster who'll weigh in impling children who play out are neglected/ ferral, unlike her darlings who are safely indoors watching TV/ using the computer

6 am is too early, but an hour or so later is fine, kid noise in a playground is a healthy, good kind of noise in a neighborhood - not at 6am, nut why should they wait inside glued to a screen til mid morning - that's not better than them being out in a playground at 8am.

Mr Bavarian I get up at six to see all my older ones and dh off to work (I love early mornings) but I still wouldn't want to be listening to other peoples' children whilst my own child was in bed. Eight o' clock is plenty early enough IMO

Im sandwiched between noise makers. At the back we have "screamers children", yes because that is all they do, scream, scream and then scream more. The parents talk loudly at the top of their voices all the time, sometimes you feel like asking them if they would like to come in our garden as it feels like they are in it anyway. This usually starts up at 7am and lasts all day, they rarely go out ever. Then we have "Mr Motorbike" who revs and revs and revs for no good reason for about 10 minutes then bangs the garage door shut. We live on a new build estate and the sound just bounces off walls.