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?

There really ought to be stricter laws on noise pollution. It ruins lives. It's not so important in a country like Australia, where you have lots of personal space. But in a small, densely populated country like the UK, where we're all jammed on top of another, noisy people can, and do, ruin lives.

Most people are reasonable. If you ask them politely to stop their dog barking, they'll apologise and do what they can. Unfortunately, that isn't always the way. I have known two different people driven to suicide attempts by the noisy, anti-social scumbags who moved in next door.

You’ve have loads of replies OP, just want to say I feel for you but unfortunately it’s just one of those things isn’t it 🙈

We have a group of boys on our green who are there from sun up to sun down screaming at each other, wrestling, fighting, swearing, screaming, crying, and then 10 mins later are best friends again and all laughing. There’s a few that throw very loud strops and whinge a lot, it’s annoying to listen to but better that they’re expelling energy doing this rather than causing trouble or on screens at home. This is my first summer living in this house so I am dreading it a bit but ultimately just have to ignore it! I usually have TV on downstairs for background noise and try to focus on that. I leave ‘classical’ music on overnight on my Alexa too which blocks out the busy street outside.

OMG, the screeching! What is that even about and why don't the parents tell them to stop it.
One of my neighbours children had friends in the garden the other day. The shouting to each other, the excitement, even the music (although it could have been turned down a little - they were very good at asking Alexa to change the song!) but why in God's name do they need to scream? I'm talking DCs up to age 11 here, not toddlers! And there were parents around so it must surely drive them mad too.

By contrast my other neighbours were in the garden with their 4 and 2 year olds. The 4 year old was 'whinging' apparently - although I didn't hear him. But DH heard the parents quite clearly say ' if you continue, we will have to go I side as the neighbours don't want to listen to that!' And they followed through! Model parenting, showing consideration for others! (I will add that the child was allowed out again after a period of time but no doubt with a further warning!)

Meant to say the shouting and excitement is fine but not the screeching

Wooden skittles bouncing down an echoes mews - at 6:30am. Lord they make a racket! For some reason the little darlings don't play skittles at other times of the day, just silly o'clock.

Maybe because mommy is too busy smoking weed on her balcony...

When we were kids if we got loud or lairy mum would send us indoors because 'why shouldn't neighbours have to listen to us??' Shame the man with the bagpipes didn't take that advice every bloody Sunday morning when he practices in the back garden.

And now the twatty parents are out on the roof, music blaring, setting up for a party. Sigh. I loved the old owners (it’s all short rents now) who were musicians and on occasion one of them would play beautiful classical music.

YABU in my opinion. Kids can't win, you all moan about them being on screens too much but then moan when they're outside playing. People expect children to be seen and not heard. 9.30 isn't even late.

Now, my noisy adult neighbour in my apartment block shouting and swearing and banging around at 3am is another story.

Exactly! I have been disturbed many times over the years, but rarely by the sound of children playing… the guy who mowed his lawn at 7am on Sundays, the woman in the flat below us who worked in clubs so would come home in the early hours and clean/ vacuum or party, the bloke who came home from the pub on a Friday and screamed at his Mrs ( back when the police weren’t interested in ‘domestics’), students in the house opposite who had endless midweek parties and on and on…

Now we live on a street with a primary school and I love the sound of the kids coming and going, playing out.

I'd much rather hear children playing than loud music or hot tubs and pools.

I keep forgetting how late it is at the moment so I suspect parents are too.

Yup! My sisters neighbour has a new guy, and apparently he likes to sit in the garden chain smoking weed with friends to the early hours - they’ve had to shut all doors and windows because it stinks so much…