Early morning noisy neighbours in garden

[CactusHeart]

IABU to be grumpy when the neighbours send their two toddlers and pet dog outside first thing in the morning?
Dad often leaves for work before 6, they have gravel driveway so we hear that, then the rest of the family are up and about.
We have tiny gardens which sort of jigsaw together, they are diagonally opposite to us. The children are on the trampoline 3m from my house, banging drums, pushing those pretend lawn mowers that click, screeching at other, chasing the dog, who barks back. Then mum comes out and yells at all of them, which just adds to the noise.
Sometimes they wait until half 7 but this week it's been before 6am, at weekends too.

As I have no intention of confrontation, I know I have to suck it up, but I'm sure I had a not outside before 9am rule when mine were little

Mine wouldn’t have been out before 9.30 at a weekend!!! I think I’d have tried more for 10 tbh. I just couldn’t be that inconsiderate. Even in the heat that someone else has mentioned!!

i currently have a neighbours teen son kick a ball off their wall for 2+hrs daily and I snapped and went out last night and said to go to the local park (200m away) and do it there. How his parents put up with it I’ve no idea but He has his headphones in while just constantly kicks the ball. My teen has never done it so I don’t expect someone else’s to annoy me more!

they’re clearly early risers (we are not!) but doesn’t excuse rudeness and consideration for others. Would you pop a note through the door? You could Send yours out and make them realise the noise they make.. 🙈

I think my automatic sprinkler would go on at 5.45am and stay on till 9am x

With LOs it would be impossible to stop them
With building work or land lord mowing, I think there's a 9am limit.

But children playing, it's a natural thing.

Imo before 0700 is pretty harsh, but equally, it’s hard to believe that hubby leaving on some gravel causes enough noise to wake you up, so maybe you are sensitive to sound in general. My fathers second wife had this and went to the gp who was able to help with a bunch of stuff from hearing tests to an mri!
it was a relief to find she didn’t have any concerning diagnosis but actually, the way she described the gp had put it, it seemed a lot of a weight off her mind (Or ears I suppose)

6 is a bit early but these days in most towns and cities we all live cheek by jowl so have to accept a degree of being exposed to the lives of others. For some that's kids that get up early, for others it's rave music or death metal in the afternoon, weed smoking or power tools. One of my neighbours has a barking dog. We can't expect to live in a sealed cocoon and have our own personal preferences met by all of our neighbours, it's just not possible. I think in days gone by people were more accepting of it, expecting deathly silence pre-9am is a very modern concept.

It sounds like hell, OP. All i can say I that kids eventually grow up. 😬