Kids playing outside

[Forevertired19]

The area where we live is like an estate. They're terraced houses with no road In between them. The houses are opposite one another in a big row.

So the kids who live on this estate if you like, they're nice kids. Decent kids but their parents obviously don't care about them. (the 6 year old boy was found swimming in the canal last summer. Ex dp had to try and get him out and the parents did nothing about it) we occasionally hear abuse too through closed windows and the walls that join the houses are incredibly thin. We've only heard this a few times though.
So the kids are left to run riot. The not so lovely neighbours also have a giant bouncy castle they like to inflate in the front of the houses. I was heavily pregnant with dd and could not gain access to my properly because of this bouncy castle and then they left it up til midnight so I got in touch with environmental health. They've also don't it while dd was a few months old and all the kids screaming kept her up past 1am. So I phoned 111 to report it. It was soon taken down.

The winter is bliss as the kids don't go out.
But we have a tiny window from our living room looking out to the houses. My cat likes to sit on here and the kids think it's okay to go up to the window, tap in the glass (which freaks me out at night due to ptsd, anxiety) and my cat starts to hiss etc.
They also have this really really loud tractor that they race up and down the front (an they've crashed into dd whilst I was carrying her in her car seat and some shopping. I was livid. Luckily she was fine!) no apology though. Constantly screaming keeping her awake and I'm due to have another baby any day now. With dd last summer the kids hassled me and any visitors I had asking to play with the baby every time I stood out the door. They've also played on my front garden and ruined all my flower beds, in winter I've had snowballs with rocks lobbed at the house and windows and constant Knocks at the door.

I have two young children now and I'm fed up of having to go through my back gate to exit my properly without myself or my very young dcs getting followed by children. The little boy tried to get into my mom's car once too and ask where she was going.

Aibu this summer to tell them to be quiet at least? I can't do a lot against children playing and it's better they're out with friends than on their consoles, but last year I got so fed up with the constant screaming all day, the tractor racing up and down, dd constantly being woken up and the hassling of any visitors. I did try and ask their parents last year to see if they could tell them to keep the noise down so dd could sleep and I essentially just got laughed at. It wouldn't bother me, but there's a park around the corner :(

Forevertired19, firstly I don’t think you are being U at all. The kids sound nice enough tbh and whilst they’ll inevitably play outside / on the street, it does sound like quite a few lines have been crossed. If the parents are the type to wander into your garden and offer to chop down trees (wtf?) then i’d be just as straight forward and say: you’d really appreciate if you can tee up a time beforehand if the kids want to either visit; wake the baby; throw stones at the window; torment the cat and risk being mauled by the dog you’d safely tucked in the backyard. You’ll no doubt get a few strange looks but i’m guessing by whats gone on already, being either nice, polite or subtle will be totally ovelooked. Good luck!

I doubt you'll be able to stop them making noise to be honest, can you move your daughter and baby to a back room for naps?

Please contact someone about your concerns about those children though. The family might need some support.

There are two isues here.

One is that you don't like the noise and disturbance of children playing in what seems an idyllic place for them. Essentially you do not like your neighbours.

Two is that certain elements of your rather confusing description seem unsafe to these children.

Stop trying to use one to justify your reaction to the other. If the canal is a safety issue then the local Council need to be contacted to ensure that it is fenced off from children. If the wires from a bouncy castle a year ago or whatever are still lying around then complain to the Council.

Everything else, well you need to decide whether you want to live there.

Many people have complained about the canal in the past 22 years I've been here. It won't be fenced off at all. Not a chance. The kids will always be at risk.

I can’t tell she’s a troll

How am I a troll?

Anyway there’s is nothing you can do to change the culture of the road you live in.

Yes you can call the authorities if folk break the law but that’s about it

I can sympathise with you OP, but what makes you think you can "tell them" anything.
You can request but it sounds like the environment of the estate tbh and probably apart from move there's little you can do.
Obviously you can keep on reporting them, but it sounds like they'll just up their campaign, and maybe not wait for snow to wrap stones in to throw at your door.
it is awful when you can't get peace in your neighbourhood.

Do you have one child or two? Did you hear abuse when walking down the road or through an open window? I can't keep up.

I've got an 11 month old dd and ds was due yesterday. Technically one child still because he hasn't made an appearance yet.
First time we heard it we were walking back from the shop. So we were almost outside our house and could hear it from there.
The second time I had our window open and we could hear it from their home.