Aibu neighbours kids!!

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So, OK I might be being a grumpy asshole because of all the wine I drank last night, and the fact I didn't get home till 3am but.....neighbours kids were out in the garden this morning at just got 8o clock! Screaming, shouting and squealing in that loud squealy way little girls have.

Is this not a tad early for a Sunday morning?! Or am I just being a moody hungover prick

I was woken at 6am this morning by my neighbour having a long conversation on his drive.

High pitched screaming and squealing isn't really acceptable at any time.

I love the optimism of the pp who said oh they'll be worn out early. The kids in our street (10 and under) are outside at 8am every day. On Friday they were still awake and shouting in the garden until nearly 10pm. Sadly that's fairly typical.

Definitely too early for a Sunday. And I don’t actually think that squealing all the time is OK in the garden at any time. Yeah, yeah kids should be allowed to have fun etc but there’s just no need for screaming and squealing. DS is a loud child, just has a noisy voice and we were in the garden most of the day yesterday. The rest of the neighbourhood was pretty quiet and so we were clear that he needed to try not to shout etc (whilst still having fun) as didn’t think it was fair for the whole street to constantly hear him.

I wouldn't let my kids out until after 9 on the weekend. I do think you're entitled to some peace and quiet.

It’s a fine line though, isn’t it? I also like to hear children playing. Chatting, laughing etc. But hollering, squealing with delight at everything, shrieking at each other and generally making a lot of noise is just antisocial.

Loads of people - even naice middle class people - just don’t care though, when it’s their own darling making all the noise.

I think it depends on the type of noise. There's normal playing and then there's constant high pitched screaming and squealing with periodic loud whinging. The first is acceptable after 9am on weekend mornings, the second is never acceptable at any time of day and certainly not for the entire summer.

Mine are older now and prefer a lie in themselves these days, but when little I might have let them out at 8am, but I’d have intervened if they’d screamed and shouted. I’d have intervened if they screamed and shouted at 9am and 10am too.

I can put up with normal playing noise. But the squealing!! It just goes straight through me!
I have young kids myself, I don't let them behave like that! And tbh this morning they were still in bed too! Which makes it more galling I think 😁

NannyOgg of course 7pm is reasonable, that’s why I’d never say anything about it! My children are regularly kept awake by the noise coming from next doors garden. They socialise and play music until around 10pm at a reasonable level. And in this heat we have to have the windows open so no escape.

I’m not letting my kids out at 8am for ‘revenge’. They are out at what I consider to be a reasonable time making a reasonable amount of noise, no more than the neighbours evening noise.

It works both ways and thankfully we’re all very understanding so no issues

We have a large building project going on at the house next door to us. Their builders arrive at 7:45 every day bar Sunday and the banging and clanging is well underway by 8. It’s awful. Been going on since Easter weekend.

YANBU. Too early on a Sunday. Any time from 8 is fine on a weekday, 9 on a weekend imo.

YANBU I hate people who think l am awake, so the whole world should be awake. Weirdly if never cuts both ways, when l get home from work at 1am or have friends round then l doubt they would appreciate me being noisy and selfish. Oh well, don't see how they can complain about outdoor parties that go on until 2am now! It’s not even that hot today and l live in a warmer part of the country

8am is too early, 9am is acceptable!

I like to get up early and do things on sundays but I wait until 10am for the noisy things (hoovering etc) so I don’t piss anyone off. I have a neighbour who reverses his van at 6.30am every day and it has a voice alarm on it THIS VAN IS REVERSING BEEP BEEP BEEP and it takes him about 6 minutes to do the reversing and I have considered killing him many times

I used to live near a pub garden and the squealing was unbearable from the kids
I didn’t let mine squeal like that I would tell them to stop!

I think about 9 am is reasonable TBH. The problem is that the warm spell has only just started following weeks of rain!.Therefore they may have reasoned" better enjoy it while it lasts!."As someone else said have a nap later on if you can!

In the real world thr majority of work it and its just another day

The majority of people do not work on Sundays.

YABU

My neighbours wake me if a car drops them off in the middle of the night - 3am

Our garden blackbird and the one next door have been having a month long stand off. They are usually up at 5 tweeting their heads off at each other

If it is hot where you are then early morning is the best time for DC to be out and for everyone else to get things done

2 of my 3 DC were jumping all over me at 7.30 so I am jealous that yours stay in bed past 8.

9 am sounds about right - have a little consideration for those who get up early Mon-Fri for work and quite frankly deserve a sleep in. Mind you, there's all our marvellous NHS and emergency service workers to consider too - many of them will be in bed during the day. Just teach the DC to have fun without squealing and screeching so loudly and oil those bloody trampoline springs regularly!

Lots of differing views here. I think that assuming you live in a residential area it’s too early. I wouldn’t have let mine be out and noisy until 9am on a Sunday.

9am at the weekends. We are doing a massive renovation and every weekend is taken up with something that involves noise. We don't start before 9am and make sure we've finished by 6pm. Fortunately our neighbours on both sides are lovely. One has a young family, so there's plenty of shrieking and squealing. The other has multiple cars that he tinkers with at the weekends.

There's always noise going on but it's considerate noise - nobody takes the piss.

My neighbours wake me if a car drops them off in the middle of the night - 3am

No car. I walked home, wasn't even wearing noisy shoes so no clip clopping down the road to wake them up either. This isn't some kind of "revenge attack"

Now mine are older they sleep in on Sundays. When they where little they had often been up since 5 am so by 8am they whete ready to play outhe. I don't think it's unreasonable, why should they make allowances for your early morning drinking session?

My children were awake at 5am but there was no way I was letting them in the garden until 9:30. It's Sunday, we live on a housing estate with many older people and my two buggers are shriekers. It was so warm last night that I could guarantee not many people slept comfortably. Just because my offspring are annoying me, doesn't mean I need to inflict them on others!

Annoying, but not obscenely early and given the weather I wouldn’t be too pissed off. However I try to be tolerant of others’ noise even when I inwardly grumble, as I’m sure DS must have disturbed the neighbours a few times in the early hours as a sleepless baby!