Neighbours kids been given WHISTLES. Fucking WHISTLES!!!

[Midsommar]

Like most people I am working from home. I live in terrace housing. The kids down the round are loud at the best of times (as most kids are and that isn't my AIBU).

But now all I can hear is whistling. Nosied out the window and both children have been given whistles. It has been non-stop since half 8 and given their track record this will no doubt go on till about 11/11.30 tonight. I have my TV turned up loud and I can still hear the whistling. I want to stab my eardrums.

AIBU or would this be pissing anyone else off right now?

Omg. I'm sorry OP.

@Royalbloo

My ex gave one to my daughter. I told her Daddy really loves whistles and she should insist he keeps it at his house - she did smile

Your post had me in stitches. Just brilliant!!!

Wow - you areall.fullof the joys of summer today. Kids playing outside, adults chatting, parents helping kids to ride bikes...it's all shocking behaviour!!! It's been wet here for days.....i would love to get the kids outside playing. Maybe the cycling parents work from home and were trying to fit in some time with the kids before work and get them out for fresh air. Whistles can be annoying but it's one day and only a few hours in. Let the kids have fun.

I must be parenting wrong then, my kids have always managed to have fun outside without whistles.

YANBU OP, what were these parents thinking! Can't they hear it themselves? I've mastered the art of zoning out child noise when I need to but whistles!?

I'm not shitting you my MIL has bought these items:

Racing car with remote that plays weird Euro dance music and flashing lights

Four wheel drive manic machine thing that flips over and climbs furniture with remote

Scissors (lots of them)

Whistle

Tin whistle

Harmonica

Recorder

Electric drums

Electric computer thing that sings

Singing care bear that can't be turned off

Creeping crying doll that has no clothes on and is filthy and has been in the garden for years?

Orange chunky indoor bike

I am constantly throwing stuff out I hate all the noises
😬😬😬

Time to buy yourself a recorder.

Get a supersoaker

Wow - you areall.full of the joys of summer today.

The thing is, due to lockdown we have all been forced to live on top of each other 24/7.

Many are working from home. Many have lost their jobs and are trying to apply for jobs. Many are studying or doing homeschooling.

There are meetings, interviews and lessons taking place online in homes all around us, in already difficult circumstances, so just a little bit of understanding and self awareness about how your child screaming/ whistle blowing/ music/ street party/ late night outdoor drinking might be impacting your neighbours wouldn't go amiss.

Normal everyday noise is perfectly acceptable. Early or late noise, or noise that is louder than everyone else's put together is not fine.

Might nip to the local school, kidnap a recorder and dance on their driveway playing it really loudly, like an angry Pied Piper

If they get a drum I'll literally go over there myself and set it on fire

That would drive me insane. I would go and tell parents it is unreasonable noise and you are wfh. Parents could take them to park to blow whistles, or just bin them like most parents.

I've seen these dog barker things to silence dogs

It plays a shrill high pitched noise
Also makes kids upset

cultkid I think your MIL is trying to kill you slowly.

How damn selfish people are. Makes me despair really. A sad reflection on the utter selfishness of so many. You see it in so many different ways.

Maybe they are those Melody Pops lollies

I've put these in party bags before. Kid gets a whistle for a bit and then eats it. Win win.

My mum goes to somewhere that has toys from china, I.e loud dance music plays from them and they emit the brightest lights, the dcs love them.
I have never allowed them to bring them to my home however, they are nanas special toys for them to play while they're over there.

Do parents actually buy them for their own kids? Only time my dc got them was from someone's party bags. And it mysteriously banished.

@TheVanguardSix

Don't think there is ANYTHING slow about it 😆

@Blinkyblonkyblimey

There was a thread on MN yesterday about ululating - why not give it a try when the whistles start to blow?

Dear Lord, add in a vuvuzela or two, some bagpipes and it'll sound like a flock of Turkeys playing a football match.

The whistling appears to have ceased....for now

Oh wow that's awful. Ds got one in a party bag once and he loved it. It 'got lost' after an hour.

Last summer someone on our road gave their kids a fucking air horn. Absolute bastards.

Get a mosquito anti-loitering device & install secretly on the boundary of your property.......... I did and they work wonderfully, keeps the brats away from my house - they disperse as soon as I turn it on & they stay in their own gardens screeching now, the parents obviously can't hear the noise & probably wonder why!!

Doubtless this will provoke howls of indignation from those flaky few who can't/won't parent their kids but I really don't care because after > 6 years of this ongoing screamfest I can actually sit in my garden without bleeding eardrums.... total result...

We are also in terraced housing. My neighbours own 3yo twin boys that appear to be in training as miniature terrorists.

Three or four times a day, their parents slope off to the back of the garden for an hour to sink into a chair and look at their phones whilst the kids scream and batter each other at the top of their lungs right near the back door where their outdoor toys are kept. Dad bought them bikes WITH BELLS which is simply the most irritating thing ever as they ding them over and over again repetitively for 20 minutes at a time