Kids outside too early?

[PinkSparkleUnicorns]

It's 8:20 and I've just let my young kids out to play. Instantly regretting it! They are not screaming and shouting but enough noise to wake the neighbours behind us I think. I just wasn't thinking, is there an unspoken time that's generally acceptable to send kids out to play?

After 9 on a Saturday, 10 on a Sunday!

We have to let dc out early.

Small terraced house with low battered fences we can't afford to replace and a narrow garden.

We are supposed to be shielding and if dc from either side spot mine in the garden they run out and start reaching through the gaps in the fences, tossing toys over and begging to come round.

All completely normal dc behaviour, and I feel like a properly miserable git for avoiding them, but necessary.

Their parents aren't socially isolating at all and are all still going around each others houses, having parties as normal. I can hear one of them coughing their guts up through the walls these last two days...

Dc are young but luckily seem to understand why we have to do this and so they go out 7-10 ish, as the others are rarely out before 11am.

I let mine out after 9, try to make it after 10 on a Sunday though

You can tell a person’s personality by those who enjoy children playing and those who hate it. The latter are uptight, mean and boring.

9 seems reasonable for a Saturday.

If it's daylight, it's fine.

You can tell a person’s personality by those who enjoy children playing and those who hate it. The latter are uptight, mean and boring
I love hearing children playing and I'm a morning person so I'd be inclined to agree, however people have different ideas of what constitutes normal play noise.

I still think it's reasonable to give it until 9am before going out and I can't stand loud screaming and shouting for hours on end from children whose parents haven't bothered to teach them consideration and appropriate noise levels.

There was a thread recently where most posters were in agreement that loud screaming and shouting is inconsiderate and there was a couple of posters insisting this made everyone boring for hating children and wanting to ruin play.

"You can tell a person’s personality by those who enjoy children playing and those who hate it. The latter are uptight, mean and boring."

That's bollocks. I like kids playing, I have my own, but after a long week it's nice to be able to sleep a bit longer at the weekends when mine is still in bed without next door's kids screeching like banshees.

820 isn't unreasonable at all, in normal circumstances, kids would be up and about and on their way to school and such, and a lot more noise from traffic etc. So, 820, let them out if it's nice enough

Really? So those of us who don't appreciate loud screaming, splashing, shouting and crying from neighbours kids in the garden at 8.30 am as I had yesterday are just being boring?

Idiot

9 and 10 on sundays some people don't get it throw there kids out at what ever time but then if people are in garden at midnight there up in arms.

9am seems reasonable. 10am on a Sunday.

We'll probably be out earlier tomorrow for egg hunt though, but our houses have bedrooms at the front, so we shouldn't disturb neighbours.

My 2 boys (4 and 2) are really loud. I'm constantly having to ask them to stop shouting, screeching. If it gets too much and I cant get them to calm down, I bring them inside. For this reason I dont let them out before 10am and they are not out past 5pm. I do feel for my neighbours but I do try and keep on top of the noise! I think it depends on how noisy your children are and how close the other houses are.

I don’t let mine out until until after 10.30 on weekdays and 11 on weekends. Mainly because mine are loud and when they go out, the neighbour sends her dc out too. That means 6 of them outdoors, being noisy. If they’re going out the front to ride their bikes, I wait until after lunch on weekends.

I THINK my children aren't too loud in the garden. But I think you are immune to your kids - sometimes my three year old is a whinge so I bring him in.

We are out around 9 on weekdays and a bit later at the weekend. Maybe 10. I feel like that's a good balance

I’d rather be woken by children playing and enjoying the outside than hearing them scream through the walls because they aren’t allowed outside.
My old next door neighbour Used to scream and shout at her son all the time, it was horrendous. She woke us in the night and early morning shouting at him to go back to sleep. I never heard the boy laugh or sound like he was playing only ever his awful mother screaming constantly.
I’d take him playing out over that any day!

Probably 9am onwards. Some people are still working long hours but 9am always feels like official ‘daytime’ rather than early morning.

9 is perfectly acceptable. I don’t expect or ask my neighbours to be quiet after 7pm because my child is sleeping, so I don’t expect them to want mine to be quiet after 9am.

Before kids I'd have said 10am, now I'm a bit more 'meh, the sun is up'

8am on a weekday, 9am on a Saturday, depends on a Sunday. We live in a fairly rural area with only a handful of homes around us. I don’t think many people round here know what day of the week it is anyway!

8.30 you are fine.

Yes I do think it’s mean to be annoyed at children playing. Nobody likes the sound of screaming and if you like next door to screamers and whiners then yes that’s annoying but children playing / laughing / talking. If that makes you mad then you are boring and mean.

Yes far too early. DS isn't allowed to play in the garden til 9.30/10.00

820 isn't unreasonable at all, in normal circumstances, kids would be up and about and on their way to school and such

Not on a Saturday on Easter weekend they wouldn't. 8.20am is far too early to let your children out to scream and shout in the garden.

Yep too early. I don't let DS out until 10am. It's not fair on the neighbours. People like to sleep in on a weekend.