Is 8am on a su day an acceptable time to take your kids to a play park?

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There is a play park in the middle of our housing estate. It is very very close to a lot of houses and flats. And particularly close to my flat. About 2 meters from my bedroom window.

At 7.50 this morning a dad came out with his 3 children and started playing with a basket ball and letting them run up the slide. General playing noise.

I don't mind the noise the rest of the day, I chose this flat after all, but 8am is too early. Right?

This woke me up and I assumed it was about 10.
DH is on his first day off in 10 days. Thankfully he could sleep through a small bomb and hasn't woken up.

AIBU to say 8am is inside play time?

Oh and I can't go out to say something. I look like a swamp monster before I shower.

It is early, but that's part of living near a park really. Just like you need to accept noisy children if you buy opposite a school, or bells if you buy near a church.

You can't live in a residential area and expect silence - it's just never going to happen.

But middle class people also live on estates with play parks too. You get arcs of large, expensive houses surrounding a play park. They would be just as unreasonable complaining about people using that park.

And they also live in flats too. Just like working class people often live in houses with gardens.

I don’t think this is a class thing at all.

I love a lie in but 8am is fine for dc to play in a park! Mn is a mad place with so many extra rules to live life by.

8am is fine, any earlier would be unreasonable. Kids will have been up for ages - and you did choose to live very close to a kids park.

I say either/both are fine. Children playing in their own gardens is fine and so is children playing on a public park. 🤷‍♀️

I wouldn't do it with mine and I'd be a bit annoyed if it was me but I suppose it is what it is living right next to a park.

This is how I feel on this one. 8 am seems reasonable to me. Earlier would be a bit much, but 8 is just about ok IMO. I expect the world around me to get up around then / make noise ok the weekends, more like 630 on weekdays. I don't think you can expect quiet past 8

Right I see this is the thread someone started a strangely worded TAAT about and it all makes sense now. Surely if you live in v close proximity to loads of other people all with very different lives you just have to get used to all the different types of disturbances? Just like if you live on a main road you have to get used to traffic noise or sirens wailing. I actually replied on that other thread but it didn't give any context, so I said it would be inconsiderate to let kids play out early, and I still think it is a little bit, but I get why that might happen if living in a small space with early risers. I don't see how there's any other way unless there are "rules" in the development / estate that you can't do xyz?! Sure it's annoying to be disturbed by neighbours - and a basketball bouncing away early in the morning would annoy me - as would clomping footsteps overhead, or rattling washing machines or any other noisy part of daily life, so YANBU to be annoyed but I'm not sure what you can do about it short of wearing earplugs. Whenever I have lived in a terrace or flat I've been able to zone out the usual noises - but some people are more sensitive (like my DH - couldn't get over a lose drain cover that clonked every time the bus went past! we had to move - I know we were fortunate to have that option).

People could just be a bit quieter. For example, some neighbours of mine are currently having a gathering. But they're not talking at a normal volume, they are shouting and screaming to make sure the whole street can hear they're having a party. Why is that necessary? Just talk normally.

Thanks everyone for your replies.
Mixed opinions which is fair.
By the time they woke me enough to check the time, they had been out playing for a while. Can't be sure how long but absolutely before 8am

I appreciate that there is nothing I can do except hope for rain every Sunday morning! I jest!

To be fair considering it's the first time in 5 years you've experienced this there's a very good chance you've just never heard it before, rather than it never have happened before

On a sunday????
9am at least
So 7 50 is taking the piss
I dont care if his kids woke up at 5am
He wouldn't wanna be disturbed at that time of the day either if he had no kids/holiday etc.

Ps if your kids wake up at 5 you should look at getting help cuz that ain't normal

Ps if your kids wake up at 5 you should look at getting help cuz that ain't normal

😂😂😂 do you have kids?

I do. And they sleep 12/13 hrs straight 😂who's laughing now @girlmom21

Still me. Mine sleep pretty well to be fair but sometimes they wake up at 5 and it's completely normal and fine!

Living next to a park myself, although not ideal to be woken/bothered by it so early in the morning, I think you just have to accept that this may happen!

Its a bit thoughtless and selfish of him on a Sunday morning. If you want to take the kids out to the park at that time at least find one that's not in a residential area.

I wouldn’t personally go that early but 8am seems ok. I’ve lived next to a little park that had opening hours posted but I think it was 8 till dusk in winter and 8-8 in summer. More aimed at discouraging teenagers.

soggypaper I'm not entirely sure why you have quoted me and then posted what you have, unless I have misunderstood?
Unless you have unlimited funds obviously you have to compromise, doesn't mean the OP can't be pissed off by it every now and again.

And again. How is that his problem?

Oh for fucks sake.

That reminds me of when I lived in nursing accommodation next to the hospital I was training at and my dad was always astonished at the amount of ambulance sirens he'd hear when we were speaking on the phone.
However many times I reminded him, it just never quite clicked that I lived RIGHT next to a hospital with a busy A&E.

"Ps if your kids wake up at 5 you should look at getting help cuz that ain't normal"

Some children don't fit your definition of 'normal'.

If you knew the park was there when you moved in, then you knew what you might be letting yourself in for, sorry.

He might have taken them there for a reason - such as they have a newborn at home, or his DP is ill in bed and needs peace and quiet, whatever. I doubt whether he was all that thrilled to be there himself at that time of the morning.

I would be in awe of a mother doing it too!