What time is best to wait until to let your kids play in the garden?

[ObiJuanKenobi]

Our dc have just turned 2 and since the weather has brightened up love being in the garden playing.
One of them woke up at 430 this morning and has been asking non stop to go in the garden and is now having a mighty tantrum about it but I think it's not fair on our neighbours to have kids playing noisily in the garden early in the morning and they should wait until 9, DP thinks they can go and play now.

What time is reasonable?

I had neighbours who regularly planned loud music until the early hours. That is disturbing, kids in the garden is nothing, and I used to live house with small a arden all backing on to each other.

I couldn't care less how early or late children are playing in the garden. What I do care about is neighbours making anti-social noise, whether their children or adults. There seems to be a general feeling on this thread that one can't possible get children to regulate their noise levels and therefore they have to stay indoors. It would be much healthier for all sorts of reasons if we allowed children outside more, but made sure they weren't noisy enough to annoy other people.

I frequently tell my children off for being too loud as we leave for school. They like singing and being loud. We live on a terrace and sound travels. I’ve heard many a conversation word perfect as I lie in bed when the neighbours have been out having a cigarette quite late. They’re not shouting but I can hear well. Not sure why I’m too bothered about my kids making a noise at 8:30am when they’ve often kept me up or woken me up going out for cigarettes all times of the night.

And don’t get me started on the dogs. The nice weather is here so that’s started. Bright hours seem to leave their dogs out in their yards. The barking starts about 5;30am when the scrap man also passes and makes a racquet loading up his van. One dog starts the rest off. Can’t say I’ve ever even hear kids out playing. Just the flipping dogs!!! If t continues this summer I’ll be sending my kids out to play loudly when they get up.

My children are not really noisy hence they can play out at 7.30am. I haven't bought a house to have to go to the park early morning with my children.

Reading back amanduh i couldn't agree more!

830 weekdays / 9 at weekends assuming they aren't being really loud and screaming.

I'm a bit taken back by suggestions of 10am on weekends. Other people shouldn't keep their kids in because some people choose to snooze for half the morning.

I think I worried this morning because it was the first morning the weather has been really nice here for ages and the first time they've both been straight downstairs and trying to put their shoes on to get outside so desperately.
Last summer they were only 1 and not walking/running about like crazies! This year they're 2 and it's a whole new ball game - they're not super loud but 2 year old twins make a decent amount of noise even when they don't mean to they're very excitable and I'm just conscious of me becoming 'immune' to the noise and that's no fair on the neighbours around us. I used to get super annoyed at the kids at the back playing on their noisy trampoline until 10pm last summer when they were waking my babies up every half hour.

I'd hate to do that to someone else.

We always played in our garden as kids before school (from around 7am in the summer) and I would let my kids do the same. Friends that lived on our street even used to come over to play for an hour before school!

Most familys that have school aged children are up at 7 am and those who have younger children(toddlers)are most probably awake well before then so unless someone near you has a newborn baby(and they've managed to grab another hour or two in bed)or are doing night shifts you shouldn't be disturbing anyone else.

Do people without children not exist in your world, or are they just too insignificant to matter?

Especially in this weather I allow my 2 out as early as 7, but they know they have to play nicely and no shouting otherwise they come straight back in, until 9am

Noise regulations are from 11pm - 7am.
www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/noise-nuisance-and-neighbours

So technically you could let them out from 7 onwards. Personally I think that would depend on circumstance and how noisy the children are. I'd personally opt for around 8 myself. 10 is far too late.
Around here, the majority of people seem to be up at the crack of dawn, especially in summer mowing their lawns before work around 7am. Then you have the dicks with massive exhausts or motorbikes revving them up at 5am so they can get to their 6am shift. At one point a dog would start howling from around 5 onwards - 2 streets away from me, but I could still hear it. I think the entire village could. Think there were several complaints about that one!

We live in such a tip toey society.

In my experience we live in a pretty inconsiderate society on the whole.

Our rule was 08.30 on a weekday unless we k we for sure that the neighbours had gone out.
Weekends was 09.00hrs unless the neighbours were up and about.
The kids often moaned about it but tough, those were the rules!

9am weekdays, 10am weekends. I think it’s lovely that you are so considerate with your neighbours 😊

@madsiemoomoo that’s very selfish of you. I’m so glad you aren’t my neighbour

I don't think its unreasonable to want some peace and quiet for at least some of the day....my neighbours let their kids out 6/7am to 7pm at night, I can hear them all day

9am at a weekend??? I'd say 8am....the kids are up and dressed I'd rather they were in the garden enjoying the day than sitting about watching TV!.....we are lucky that we only have 1 neighbour and they are retired and up way before us!!?!

LOL at 10am! What kind of bubble do you people live in!! People are up gardening, DIY ing, mowing etc by 8 in my neighborhood so wouldn’t think twice about letting the kids out then as well. My neighbors have their moany whingy children out at 6:45 some days which I do think is early but that’s part of suburban living I guess.

I don't live in a bubble, I live where there are elderly people and childless couples. I think they are entitled to quiet enjoyment of their home, which is why I don't let my children out until 9.30 at the weekends.

If you know all your neighbours are up then that's fine, but no need to LOL and insult at those that don't have the same kind of setup and choose to show consideration for others. It's not a bad thing to teach your children to consider others and to think about more than their own wants!

MargaretCavendish of course not,but this is a parenting site and I did mention people doing shift work as well!

@HunterHearstHelmsley nothing to do with this thread but I love your username

Not before 9.00 am.

I’m just amazed there are people who expect the world to stay silent until 9 am (10 on weekends!) Bins are collected, people start their cars/motorcycles, road works & construction, all before 9am. Sometimes our post comes before 10 on Saturday! I must tell the postman it’s not the mumsnet way.

Common decency requires you to not let your kids shriek and shout at all hours. Common decency ALSO requires you to realize that kids have a right to play in their own gardens.

If your kids' noise is as quiet as the post being delivered, or as momentary as a car being started, then crack on. If, like 99% of toddlers, it's not, then be considerate. It's not that hard.

Between 8am and 8pm is fine. If you can’t cope with that then pop off to your desert island. Compromise on all sides is needed, not just on the part of the kids.