To want the babling toddler next door to be quiet.

[DeeSeeMee]

Next doors toddler talks constantly in the garden - that in itself would not be so bad but her parents constantly answer her! So it just a contant stream of nonsense loud chatter coming from the garden next door. I'm not going to say anything, but surely I'm not BU to find this annoying?
I appreciate little ones chatter but surely the parents must be aware they are being really noisy. I wish they would just ignore her or tell her to be quiet. I've resorted to headphones.

If parents ignored her what you would he's on repeat would be mama, mama, mama, mama, mama, mama.
Or you would hear the sobs of a neglected toddler.
They talk, a lot, and it's how they learn.

*hear

Lol what exactly do you expect them to do? A toddler to be mute or the parents to ignore their child? Utterly batshit.

@LH1987

I can see why it is annoying, in fairness the OP said she wasn’t going to complain about it. She is just annoyed by it which is perfectly reasonable!

Please tell me how it’s perfectly reasonable to get this worked up over a babbling toddler? They are human beings not animals for Christ sake. It’s absolutely pathetic.

Wow. A toddler babbling? A parent talking to their toddler? YABU
Toddlers babble, parents want to talk to their child. It's instinct, it's natural and it's how children learn the art of conversation. There's nothing you can do about this at all except wait until next year when the child will have developed past babbling.

You are lucky you don't live next door to us. DS is 5 but doesn't come up for air!

I would love to hear my toddler chatter all day long and be able to answer him back. What a silly thing to complain about.

@FlyingPandas

I don't think you're being unreasonable in the slightest (and I've had three chatty toddlers!).

From what you say it's not actually the toddler chat, or the parents' encouragement of it. It's the utter relentlessness of the fact that it sounds like they are in their garden pretty much all the time and talking all the time.

It's one thing to live in a neighbourhood with families and some noise is to be expected. But constant relentless noise is something else entirely.

Whether it's toddlers babbling, children laughing, adults talking, music playing, lawnmowers mowing, dogs barking - all normal part and parcel of living in a community - all of this is fine and bearable as long as one sound is not happening for hours on end, day after day. It can become incredibly stressful if it feels as if there is no let up in one particular sound.

For example neighbours of ours once spent two days' solid over a sunny bank holiday pressure washing their front and back gardens and by the end of day one I just wanted to cry. If they'd only used the washer for an hour or two it wouldn't have bothered me in the slightest but the hours on end phut-phut-phutting was just miserable.

This is spot on. My nice old next door neighbours will chat (prattle on) for hours on a sunny day. I can't sit and read a book in my garden because they're so loud it's really distracting. they're both deaf so they talk very loud. If I come indoors, my house is unbearably hot unless backdoors are open but it's like they're in my house. I can't escape it.

They sit right next to the fence 3 feet from my back door. Drives me potty 😭

They're doing nothing wrong but it's so imposing.

I'm not going to bother with this one. I can see the majority of posters on this thread agree that YABU.

You sound selfish and mean hearted.
There's nothing worse than a parent ignoring a toddler because they can't be arsed or they would rather be glued to their mobile.

Children talk, parents answer.

What else do you really expect?

Get a grip.

Maybe an over-50's only development might hit the spot, OP?

Is this a windup?
How entitled are you!?

YABU and a self-absorbed asshole.

would rather live next to a chattering toddler than a miserable fuffer like you !!!

you need to move to somewhere secluded, not expect your neighbours not to talk. weirdo!!

@Thatsnotmyfacemynoseistoobig

You ate vile Get a house with no neighbours

Better still get a very yappy dog, let it loose around bedtime, The dog has every right to be yappy in its own garden.

Ours next door roars like a dinosaur. Her parents encourage it. This has been going on for 2 years. I’ve got kids so I’m not unknowledgeable / lacking in understanding. I just don’t get the encouraging your child to roar 2500 times a day.

I’m not a fan of noisy kids, and have noise sensitivity issues as it stands so I hate hearing other people in their gardens, and even I think this is ridiculous. You want parents to stop talking to their toddler?

Why is responding to your child talking “over parenting”? How do you think kids learn to speak?

Yab vu Kids chatter its just what they do its not as if she is screaming

@CirclesWithinCircles

Maybe an over-50's only development might hit the spot, OP?

No allthe oldies will be deaf and bellowing at each other “ya what Mavis”

Sorry get a life.

@DrunkOnOneSip

I am confused at the responses on this thread.

Where in any of OP's posts has she complained about the babbling from the toddler or expressed that the parents should shut the child up.

She has complained that the parents responses are over the top and performance level so would like them to tone it down.

It looks like another thread where reading comprehension is absent and makes this site appear to be full of over opiniated types who don't pause for two seconds before they go off on what they think they have just read.

It is very concerning that an awful lot of people on apparently six figure salaries, from their very important intellectual jobs, cannot fucking read properly. Perhaps their parents should have spent more time on assisting their education as it pertains to written communication.

@DrunkOnOneSip

Go home, you’re drunk

@nettytree I've just spent the evening googling and being upset about my non verbal 4 year old and then saw your comment, like it was meant to be!