My garden backs on to a block of retirement flats, there is an end flat that is close to our garden and overlooks it.
My daughter is 4, now it’s warmer she plays in the garden - she is not home four days of the week, and so plays in the garden most nights usually from 530-7 sometimes earlier, sometimes not all, she’s in and out, and if we’re in the at the weekend she may be in the garden, in and out if we’re home, until 7 ish or earlier
This particular neighbour that is the closest, always shuts her windows as soon as my daughter is outside.
shes not unruly, or screams, she is a normal four year old who loves playing outside, mainly with her mud kitchen and her bikes. She might sing to herself or laugh and talk to me, she’s not excessively loud and nobody else shuts their windows and our neighbours always have their doors open- we are a mid terrace house.
This has been going for about a month, today, we have been out in the garden a lot of the day, my mum came over for a bbq at 2, my daughter was in and out, she shut her window.
my daughter went in at 5 for a bath as she had been swimming, she opened her window, my daughter came back out at 7 to call our cat in for some food, she shouted ‘shut up’ and slammed her window shut.
we don’t take the mickey, nobody’s in the garden late evening making noise and she’s never in the garden any earlier than 9am.
is this excessive behaviour from her or should I be telling my daughter to stop humming or singing to herself or even laughing?
I just don’t know if it’s unreasonable to let a young child play in the garden as much as she wants, if she ever was to be excessively loud I would tell her to be quieter but she never is