10pm too late for young children?

[MotherofOats]

Upstairs have 2 children 4 and 6. There is no carpet upstairs so I can hear general walking around. I've lived in this flat for a couple of months now and I can hear the children running bouncing and stomping around almost all the time :( recently that home I've noticed it carries on until at least 10 at night. As it was a Saturday I brushed it off but it's carried on for over three weeks now!
Am I being unreasonable to think that a 4 and a 6 year old should be asleep by 10? When I look after my nieces and nephews who are between 2 and 5 and they go to bed latest 8 p.m.!

I wouldn't want to live close by, thanks.

Flats are tricky. It may sound like the’re running about but its possible they are just wandering about. I live in a house with no carpets and if the kids are upstairs I can hear them moving about, even barefooted.

My ex lived in a flat downstairs and I would put the kids to bed while he was at work and stay until he got home. It would be a friday night and the kids would be going to bed around 7;30/8pm depending on where we had been before. I’d then sit and watch TV and man upstairs would get his guitar out and practise the same song for about an hour, whilst tapping his foot to keep the beat. This was highly irritating and I dont know how my ex put up with it as it happened several nights a week. The kids would complain as they tried to get to sleep. I don’t know if He had carpet or not but it was loud.

Oh and my 5 and 8 year old often stay up til about 10pm on a weekend or school holidays. Not always but quite often. Often 9pm. Means we get up later which is a bonus from the 6am start my youngests would normally have. Maybe OP has a later start in the mornings - with it being holidays. Maybe the noise would begin at 6am and wake the OP if it wasn’t going on at night. Unfortunately living above, below or next door (semi or terraced) will always mean sound from children will travel and it often sounds worse that it actually is through a wall.