To ask what the acceptable time is for kids being in the trampoline on the garden on a weekend?

[JamesMiddletonsMarshmallows]

Next door's kids were out at 8am on the trampoline. Neighbour on their other side is hoping I'll kick off about it with her (we are friendly and she messaged me). But I think 8am is actually ok, but no sooner. I CBA with a neighbourly dispute (plus my kids are gobshites any given day of the week)

Thoughts on an acceptable time?

Mouse=noise!

I think there has to be balance - of course you should be considerate of neighbours and I think 8am at the weekend is probably too early.
But slightly unfair to complain about children playing outside in their own garden when there has been hardly anything else to do all year! (Squaling and screaming aside)

For parents of very young children, 9am feels like bloody lunchtime when you've been up and entertaining little ones since 6.
-Well no Johnny you cant go on the trampoline til 10.30am because Sarah next door, likes a lie in.

• Oh and no not between 2pm and 4pm because Vera and Geoff have their afternoon nap then...
• Not after 6pm because Jean and Paul a few doors down like to have quiet drinks on the patio...

And I dont think the sound of kids shouting or playing outside is comparable to builders drilling, people digging up the road, or tree felling etc!

@fizbosshoes I don't think anyone on the thread has said that Johnny can't go on the trampoline between 2-4 because of afternoon naps, but even if they had, little Johnny would still get to bounce from 10.30am-2 and 4-6. 5.5 hours of bouncing doesn't seem to me to be totally terrible for him!

(And the point about there being hardly anything else to do all year so people should get a reasonable opportunity to enjoy their gardens, applies to everyone in this pandemic...)

Any bloody time they want. If my kids want to go outside and jump on the trampoline I have paid for in my own garden in stead of sitting in front of the tv or tablets then they can. I don’t complain about noise made by the neighbours after I put my kids to bed so I don’t expect them to complain about my kids playing in their own garden in the mornings.

@trixies
Some people on the thread have given ridiculously short timescales that children should be permitted in their own gardens.
I'm not saying that 5.5 hours is not enough time , more that, aside from very early (which some MN think is any time before midday!) I'm not sure that anyone (regardless of what they're doing in the garden - except maybe bonfires) plans it for their neighbours convenience more than their own!

As a complete aside, we used to live in a ex local authority flat. The council were doing improvements to all the communal areas and front doors, and turned up (unannounced) at 8.30am on a bank holiday to paint our door frame, which required us to have the front door open. That was was quite unsociable especially as the bathroom was next to the front door

I'd let them out at 7 🤣 but then my neighbors one way party all night so I don't see the difference, and the other way has kids too so they're not bothered.
But I live on the sort of street where
we all get along, everyone's noisy and everyone's nice and nobody really gives a shit what anyone else is doing. Unless they're pedos or selling drugs or sex of course. Don't want that shite on our doorstep.

@fizbosshoes Is that not because the children they're talking about (whether it's their own or neighbours') are screaming and shrieking? If someone is objecting to normal playing noise, then of course that's not reasonable - and I'd say that to their face. But I don't think people should be compelled to tolerate loud continuous shrieking for a prolonged period, no.

I agree though that you don't plan your garden around your neighbours' convenience, which is why I don't think anyone would say that not being able to go outside between 2-4 because of afternoon naps was reasonable. I don't think I've seen anyone here suggesting that before noon is unreasonable, either - the consensus on this thread seems to be 9am/10am.

@Tooshytoshine

Our neighbours retired and will start strimming, mowing, jetwashing, chainsawing, pnumatic drilling from 8am at the weekend. They don't do it in the week. They can sustain it with their arsenal of power tools until 5pm, when they will stop for dinner in their garden - and listen to an easy listening compilation they must have bought at a service station of Sting, dinah carrol, dr hook, luther Vandross, peebo bryson etc at a few decibels higher than any reasonable person would.

Some people are just twats.

Thats appalling. Have you asked them to reconsider the days they start so early if not the hour? Then again, as is so often the case, the kind of people who are so thoughtless as to do this in the first place are probably not going to be amenable to any such request. I mean I could live with the power tools but Luther Vandross? Too far neighbours, too far

"And I dont think the sound of kids shouting or playing outside is comparable to builders drilling, people digging up the road, or tree felling etc!"

Actually it's worse. Mindless squealing and screaming by children is far more annoying than power tools, which at least serve a useful purpose.

My biggest worry with the modern trend for shrieking is that one day something bad might be happening, and I genuinely would not think to go and check it out because throughout the summer my neighbours' children shriek all day long. I can't think I'm the only one.

9am normally, 8 on a hot midsummer day if the kids want to be active in the cool of the morning.

The kids are only allowed until 7.30 pm week days

And then
11 am - 8pm on weekends.

And what about the neighbours who have small children with bedtimes before 8pm? Or shift workers who sleep from 8am to 4pm and want a long lie on their night/day off? It's impossible when you live in close quarters to avoid disturbing others while going about your daily business. I have a neighbour who leaves for work at 5am every morning, there's a milkman who delivers milk around midnight, I usually get woken by one or the other but it would be very unreasonable of me to complain about them doing their work. There are neighbours who play the drums, the clarinet, the violin. Should I complain when I hear them? Or enjoy the sound of someone doing a worthwhile activity? Children playing a garden away is not a disruptive sound, particularly if the gardens are big enough for trampolines.

Agreed I think shrieking and screaming would be annoying, but not just being on the trampoline.

They are terrible neighbours and awful people. I could write threads about them. We are two mum's and during the pandemic she knocked in the door to see whether we wanted her bullet head husband to play rough and tumble with our son as he would be starved of a male role model. I politely declined.

We just ignore them and have decided that rather than extending our lovely house in the future we will sadly have to move.

trixies
The way some kids and their parents behave I'd make a point of ignoring them if something bad was happening not really

out when you wake up over here..all seems a bit mean spirited to keep kids inside when they can be out enjoying themselves..8am is a lie-in surely..tbh i couldnt give a fuck if joe bloggs wants to kip til10am.."buy some earplugs mate"u cant do right4doin wrong,obesity&screentime on 1thread-shameful parents actually letting their kids play out all day on the other..get over yourselves.

Don't you sound a delight! Tell me where you live so I can avoid it.

Ok one more time. There is a whole Rest of the Day thing going on where children can wear themselves out screen free from 10 til 7 or 8 or whenever they go to bed. And also, just because they are in the house does not mean THEY have to be on screens, they can read, play with toys or each other, draw, make breakfast....

Id say 9am was more acceptable, but im not about to tell anyone what they should or shouldn't do in their own garden, I do what I like in mine!

@CornishPastyDownUnder gosh you seem like a truly horrible person. I feel sorry for your neighbours.

Cornishpastydownunder, I agree! Some people on this thread are so entitled and lazy, lounging about after the sun is up and demanding silence from everyone. Get up and do something. Go shopping for earplugs.

The odd time I don't really mind if it was every week though maybe 830ish

@Doona

Cornishpastydownunder, I agree! Some people on this thread are so entitled and lazy, lounging about after the sun is up and demanding silence from everyone. Get up and do something. Go shopping for earplugs.

I really hope you are being sarcastic. If not, I have no words....

Far too early. And very unreasonable.

A bit facetious maybe but no, I think people are being outrageously entitled complaining about children playing in their own gardens in the daytime. Especially during lockdown. Have some consideration for others (as mothers on here are continually being told)!

No earlier than 8. I would probably try to hold off til 9 but then tbf building work etc often starts at 8am.

Expecting people to wait until 10 or 11 is too far in the other direction.