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?

From a noise perspective, inside on their iPad is much better than outside screaming and annoying the neighbours

How would noisy adults at a bbq or other gathering not also ruin a quiet night in? I would not expect all outside noise to stop at 9pm on a weekend, I'd say 11pm is the cutoff.

My estate is like this and I feel like such a Scrooge but I hate it so much. Can't have my window open cos they're so loud and it's bloody boiling 🤣

Read the post - i said it applied to adults/lawnmowers etc....

Well...this is Mumsnet after all. Not sure why people who whinge about not liking children would be here 🤷

I never would have been allowed to make noise at that time of night annoying my neighbours.

To be honest, it's nice to know that kids are still playing out with each other. It seems to happen less and less.

There’s a child living somewhere near me, a preteen boy by the sound of his voice, but when he plays football in his garden, he just bellows non-stop. Everything he says is delivered in an urgent yell as if he’s coaching a premier league team and it grates on me more than I can say.

I wouldn’t have. I did what I was told by my parents.

I think at the moment I could forgive it. Saturday night and the first time the weather has been nice in a long time.

When my friends and I screamed once during a race or something in the street when I was a kid in the 80s, loads of people came out of their houses to see what the racket was

You could always take my neighbours who spend almost every summer weekend outside, playing music and talking until well after 1am

Headphones in and it doesn't disturb my sleep at all

I asked what are they ruining that adults wouldn't. I agree that there are understandings between neighbours but I would not differentiate between adult and child noise.

YABU. It’s summer, we’ve had pretty lousy weather so far, and recently there have been a load of posts on MN about obese kids not getting enough exercise! Honestly kids can’t do right for doing wrong sometimes. Stick some ear plugs in.

I’ve always seen threads like this and thought people were grumpy because children playing is a nice sound… until a few weekends ago when I walked the dog in a different area of town and omg the screeching was horrific. I can’t believe there are parents who are fine with this. Mind you, I’m sat in the garden with a coffee and our neighbour has been mowing the lawn since 7am which I also find rude. I’m far too British to say anything but I’ll sit here and grumble.

Nothing "even" about wind chimes. People who put those up are selfish arseholes. Clanging noise for noise's sake, inflicted on others - so selfish!

Other peoples windchimes and water features are torture - I'd rather listen to traffic!

I cannot stand the screeching. My dc would never be allowed to do that. I am grand with playing outside though. They get little enough opportunity!

I can definitely sympathise. The family next door have a habit of only coming outside after about 9pm. They have there small children (no older than 7/8) who then run around screaming on the grass beside the road in the street until at least 11pm whilst the parents sit there smoking weed. If the smell of the weed doesn't force us into shutting the windows, the screaming does. Not ideal really especially when we are a household who heads to bed by 10pm due to being up before 6am. It is one of the only things I prefer about the winter months to be honest.

I've 4 children and they can be loud but there in bed washed and fast asleep by 9pm on the weekend 8pm on a weekday.
I often think about the lack of parenting for a few children on my street who are out past ten as young as 5years old! And the screaming 😱 I've popped out a few times thinking one had been ran over!

One of our neighbours seem to throw their kids out into the road at stupid o'clock to scream their little heads off (sometimes they play skittles - wooden skittles). Another neighbours child was blowing into a recorder in the street from about 6:30 this morning. Blowing, not playing. Stopped about 10am. Another leaves their poor dog out on the balcony and it howls the place down.

I have to admire their lungs.

Oh did I mention they are in a mews so it echoes like crazy?

It's the principle. Parents thinking their children are entitled to the same privileges, thus bein inconsiderate of other adults
Kids aren't the issue

The ‘privileges’ of using their garden in summer?

Stop being ridiculous. You know it relates to letting them shout and scream at unsocial hours

You said same privileges, adults doing this would be annoying too. OP was talking about kids playing in their own garden at 9.30 on a sunny day when she didn’t even live there. You stop being ridiculous.