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Original poster

I am so pissed off right now

96 replies

Besswess88 · 23/01/2022 06:29

Neighbours child has been wailing (think singing wailing more than crying) since 5:30am.

Every fucking day this week., it’s Sunday ffs I want to sleep but now fully awake and very very pissed off.

ARGH 😠

OP posts:
Thevoiceofreason2021 · 23/01/2022 06:34

Earplugs.
It’s not like your neighbours are playing banging house music all night

Original poster
Besswess88 · 23/01/2022 06:35

They could move the crying child and soothe them elsewhere from the adjoining bedroom.

OP posts:
WheelieBinPrincess · 23/01/2022 06:39

Do they know how much you can hear?

Original poster
Besswess88 · 23/01/2022 06:40

Yes

OP posts:
truthfullylying · 23/01/2022 06:43

@Besswess88

They could move the crying child and soothe them elsewhere from the adjoining bedroom.
Do you have an alternative room? Could you use earplugs?

Pointless staying awake wishing they would do something different, easier for you to do something different.

AlDanvers · 23/01/2022 06:51

The house next door might not have another room anywhere in the house?

How many houses are one room wide amd domt have a downstairs?

Op yanbu. It's been well over an hour, they should have done something.

iloveyankeecandle · 23/01/2022 06:53

Are you my neighbour?

Liverbird77 · 23/01/2022 06:55

Probably mine!

TetraTetris · 23/01/2022 06:57

How old is the child? If very young they're probably trying to train it in some sort of way to sleep longer.....put up and shut your mouth, you'll be grateful in the long run!

OnceuponaRainbow18 · 23/01/2022 06:58

We moved out youngest cots to the other side of the room so it’s not ajoining the neighbouring walls. Also allowing it to happen for an hour is super shitty.

Can you say something to them?

DefaultParent · 23/01/2022 07:01

I can't imagine it's much fun for them either. Earplugs in and back to sleep.

LadyCluck · 23/01/2022 07:03

Hi neighbour!

GiltEdges · 23/01/2022 07:08

Buy earplugs. Or move and buy a detached 🤷🏼‍♀️

falalalalalalablahblah · 23/01/2022 07:25

Hi my neighbour. Kids make noise, sorry. I've begged mine to pipe down and let me sleep, but alas. Ear plugs are your friend.

Thatsplentyjack · 23/01/2022 07:28

I've got 3 kids and I would never have allowed them to do that. If your child gets up at 5.30 bloody well get up with them! Don't leave them to sit a yell and wake the neighbours up!

AlDanvers · 23/01/2022 07:33

Of course kids make noise.

You don't leave them shouting/crying/wailing for over an hour.

Love people pretending its nor a big deal. If a post came here and said 'dh was meant to be getting up with our toddler but left then screaming and shout for well over an hour', the vast majority would say that's not ok and what a shit parent and partner he was.

Neighbour complains and its 'oh kids screaming at 5.30am, for over an hour is normal. Stop being so precious.'

MissNothing1991 · 23/01/2022 07:33

My daughter has Developmental delay. She could easily wake early, and could as easily wail/sing for an hour because she has no verbal communication as yet and that would be her way of expressing herself. So thank fuck you aren't my neighbour.

Flocon · 23/01/2022 07:33

Move?

RockAndHardPlace1 · 23/01/2022 07:35

This is why my DC are on the adjourning wall to my neighbours they can sleep through a bomb going offGrin
Swap bedrooms?

Ovenaffray · 23/01/2022 07:36

If they are working with the baby trying to soothe it then it’s one of those things.

If they’re not and they’re just leaving it to cry then they are being completely unreasonable.

Thatsplentyjack · 23/01/2022 07:39

@Flocon

Move?
What would be the point, apparently everyone thinks this is fine so the OP would probably end up next to more shit parents. Plus it's not always that easy.
DefaultParent · 23/01/2022 07:40

They may be shit parents or they may be really trying. But there's an easy solution, earplugs 🤷🏼‍♀️

easyluckyfree · 23/01/2022 07:41

OP, if you ever complain about neighbour’s kids making noise you are automatically BU on here.

If the child is crying and the parents are trying to soothe it then there isn’t much else they can do. If they’re just leaving their kid to make a huge amount of noise without trying to stop it then it’s fucking shit. I used to hate living below one family whose child would leap repeatedly off their bed (I think) from 6am, making loads of noise and causing the the ceiling lamp to shake. After a 55 hour working week I did not feel particularly charitable.

Crying is different, but it still isn’t ok to let your child make loads of noise that early and for that long. I guess we never know the details though and whether there really isn’t anything the parents can do. YANBU for being annoyed, though.

Pikaso · 23/01/2022 07:42

God I don’t miss having neighbours! Threads like this make me thank my lucky stars we’re detached. YANBU. Parents need to shut the kid up

Thatsplentyjack · 23/01/2022 07:43

Yeah really trying is leaving your child to wail at the top of their voice at 5.30 in the morning.