It's a noisy kids outside one

[bloodyhellKen22]

It's now past 9:30. It's a warm day and I'm staying at my parents's house with the window in the bedroom open and toddler asleep next door. Kids are outside kicking a ball and screaming at each other. I'm all for playing outside and making noise in the day - go for it and have fun! But after 9pm I feel it's just not on. Maybe I'm just getting older and more miserable but it's really annoyed me tonight. What are your thoughts - AIBU?

Adults never sit outside late into the evening and make noise, never ever 😄

My kids are still outside playing football with their cousins.

You arent in North East Scotland are you OP?

How old are your kids? Is it a special occasion?

Actually I realise I've used this thread to sound off a bit about my own situation because it's really making me miserable ATM.
But even if OP is not in her own home she still has a right to be annoyed about the noise.

Your child is asleep, you’re not at your house and you’re in bed really early. Seems more like a you problem than anything else.

We are passed the days of "children should be seen and not heard"

I bet they've been in for at least an hour now as it goes dark and the temp drops

Summer hols start in a few weeks... better start getting used to it

I think yabu. It's still light, it's summer let them enjoy themselves.

The screaming is hard to take I agree. But normal playing should be OK . The world doesn't revolve around any one group , like babies, etc. I lived in a city with constant noise , just a fact of life . So few opportunities to kids to congregate outside . Just have to put up with it I'm afraid.

Noise rules generally state 11pm. It's summer break here so children are in holiday mode 🤷‍♀️

No you are not being unreasonable @bloodyhellKen22 it appears to me that many parents these days are bringing up selfish and entitled children. God help us all. 😔

Kids can still enjoy themselves without screetching. That way everyone else can enjoy the Summer nights as well. People are far too precous these days about centering kids all the time at the expense of everyone else, it does them no good

Screeching like they have red hot pokers up their derrieres? it sounds like they are being tortured.
It's not normal noise.

It's ragged shrill screeching that is far from pleasant.

Most kids don’t make that much noise ime. My grandad used to describe normal kid noise as sceaming and screeching, when in reality he just hated that he could hear children at all. He was very intolerant of any noise.

When one of my kids were 10 ish, they were in our garden chatting and laughing at about 9pm with a couple of friends who were staying over. Our neighbour actually knocked the door and told us they shouldn’t still be outside and should be asleep. 🤪 She also said they were screaming. They were not. Some people are just very intolerant or sensitive to any noise and exaggerate. The best thing we ever did was move to have no neighbours.

I was brought up with DM telling us we had to whisper in the garden!!
Sad!

When I was a kid in Spain we would be having another evening meal at 10pm and riding our bikes round the town square/ playing on the beach until midnight

I think if it’s still light outside then let them get on with it. What about adults who are so noisy long in to the evening during summer?

I read this thread straight after the Cornwall prom thread, and having just read about the absolutely ridiculous secondary school policies these kids may have to endure / are enduring.. I think leave them alone, let them play.

Far better to see them playing outside anyway than stuck in front of video games.

Yes my child played out but they were also taught to be respectful of neighbours and not be loud for no reason and yes, I would have been told if they were told off if annoying the neighbours

I think whatever time is appropriate for adult noise at a bbq is also appropriate for child noise.

People are so miserable. There's just 2/3 months of a year where kids and adults can be out, play out till late.

Gawd, another 'children come first, first, first, and bugger it if they are antisocial and ruin it for the adults'

What are they ruining that noisy adults enjoying themselves outside wouldn't?

A quiet night in?
Not saying children shouldn't/can't be outside having a ball, just that there are social conventions/unspoken understandings amongst neighbours and communities re such noises (lawnmowers/adults/dogs/etc) and acceptable times
Manners

I can’t stand unnecessary noise, actually I can barely stand necessary noise and I’m often irritated by my neighbours kid being loud outside in the evening. I also have a toddler I’d like to stay asleep. But then I kind of think it’s summer, it’s really light, they’re just kids having fun and letting off steam. Plus they are outside, not stuffed in a room staring at iPads. Especially this year as the weather has been so bad. I think you need to just let it ride out. In a few years time it will be my son who wants to be in the garden at 9pm.
but yeah, it’s pretty annoying too.

No you are not unreasonable. I am all for children playing outside and enjoying their childhood. In our estate there are many children who play outside in big groups. But there are 2 who absolutely stand out because they are constantly screaming and have to be louder than anyone else. The parents clearly don’t care about the noise levels affecting others because it’s the same families who have no qualms about waking half the neighbourhood late at night, or on bank holidays when they decide to start noisy building work before 8am. It’s just part of todays selfish and entitled people.

Yeah I don't understand the screaming either.

If any one of my friends would have done that we would have been shocked 😂
Pretty sure that isn't allowed in school playgrounds still?

What are they screaming at?
There is a little girl near me who screams all day long as part of her normal play and other neighbouring children all around who scream all day.
Seemingly no one ever tells them not to..