To wonder what time is it reasonable for kids to stop playing football

[balletnotlacrosse]

I've just seen a row going on while I was out for a walk. Some kids were still out playing football on the green, a woman had obviously come out and asked them to stop, and a mother was giving her grief. "They're only playing, the green's for everyone" etc etc

Aibu to think nearly ten o'clock is a perfectly reasonable time to ask kids to stop playing football outside people's houses? Just wondering, because I've often been tempted to go out myself and ask them to call it a night after about 9pm.

It's only light this late for a month of the year. Not something I'd stress about tbh

I like the sound of kids playing and enjoying themselves. You buy a house on a green, you should know kids will play on it.

Why do they need to stop at any time? It's just football on a communal green

Because it is loud and noise carries.

Absolutely. It's dark by 10 in any case.

How horrid!

Why would anyone buy a house on a green and then moan about noisy kids playing on it. Nearly as bad as buying a house in the same road as a school and bitching about 6th formers parking outside.

But that's another thread!

They should be in bed if they have school in the morning

It's half term pixie

Totally disagree TTWK. If someone buys a house beside a green and moans about kids out there playing in the afternoon or early evening then yes, that would be unreasonable.
But people who think it's okay for their kids to be still out on the Green at 10pm shouting and banging footballs around because 'so what. The neighbours knew they were buying beside a green' are rude and inconsiderate.

Like Stopandlook said, it'll only be for another month... We all did stuff when we were teenagers that some adults didn't like.

I used to live beside a green. The vast majority of kids would be gone home by 9ish. But there was always one or two sets of parents who let their kids play out there for at least another hour, and often longer. It was really annoying. When we moved one of our criteria was 'not beside a green'.

9 o'clock sounds like a reasonable time to me. And no, I don't buy this nonsense that people who purchase beside a green have to put up with noise until all hours.

I imagine most people who buy a house beside a communal green expect that most parents will use a bit of consideration and common sense. In the same way that you don't assume that because you've bought a house beside people with a back garden that you should be expected to put up with noise until all hours. You just presume that your neighbours will be decent and considerate, unless proven different.

Oh and I 'like the sound of kids playing and enjoying themselves'. But not out on the road/green at 10pm.

Lived with a green in front of my garden gate, I don't think there's ever been people being being noisy after 9.

In fact my lot were being as noisy has hell last night and I went and told them to pipe down at 7.30 as there's small children in the surrounding houses and it being a warm night the windows were open.

It's really all about being considerate to others isn't it?

Totally agree Moln. My sister lives beside a Green and she said it's always the same few kids who are still out there after all the other kids are gone home for the night. And they are always the children with parents who go ballistic if anyone asks them to keep it down, or tells them it's getting a bit late and maybe they should go home now because they're keeping smaller kids awake.

Love the sound of kids playing and enjoying themselves. But our rule has always been not before 9am and not after 9pm. 10pm is a bit late tbh.

people complain children never play outside anymore, this is bloody why!

There's a happy medium Nancy. No one's complaining about children playing outside. Just expecting that at 10 o clock they'd be gone inside. We played outside all the time when we were kids. But there was no way my parents would have let us still be outside shouting and making noise at 10pm. And no other kids on the road were out at that time either,

It's about compromise and common sense.

Yes have to agree on the 10pm post, but someone posted half 7, and thats unreasonable to the extreme. To the op i would say yes by 10pm they should be in bed, but if its a one off i would let it go.

It's not half term here

How noisy are they really? Football isn't that loud so unless the house is in the middle of the green it isn't going to be especially noisy. 10pm in school holidays isn't that late for early teens.

I bet the same people complain kids don't play out/hang around on corners rather than doing anything etc.

I think 10pm is too late. I think 8am to 830pm is enough. Like hearing children playing & laughing but constant thwack of a football would send me a bit demented.

I think in most places i've been to where there is an actual "curfew" it is 11pm-7am, that isn't a time where children have to be inside, just a time they are not supposed to be heard playing outside, like on housing estates, campsites, holiday villages etc.