Clocks go back and as if by magic....

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The selfish people show themselves

Bang. Bang. Bang. Footballs against the fence.

Parent. Your. Children.

Its unacceptable

Just take them to the park ffs

Unfortunately, it's often the cannabis smokers who have the feral children who run around screaming at the top of their voice, when they're taking a break from relentlessly kicking a football against the garden fence.

Let me guess, OP, you also call every single school holiday ‘half term’?

Repeated kicking of a ball against a garden fence that someone else shares is not OK.

Our next door neighbours have a little girl who likes a shriek when she's playing outside. I momentarily was grumpy about it then got nostalgic what it was like having children who liked to play outside (mine are all teens now so go out to the garden for parties only). It's only for a few years that it happens (possibly even less, the neighbours on the other side have grandchildren of a similar age and they don't shriek) and generally children playing in their gardens is a joyful noise.

If you don't want to hear your neighbour's normal garden usage then maybe move to a flat.

Do you allow your children to kick a ball against a fence, knowing that someone's garden is on the other side?

OP is specifically complaining about a ball hitting a fence. That's not OK.

Banging on your fence?

@Whosthetabbynow I personally would prefer living amongst the unparented ferals to living among the grown up ferals who think it is acceptable to be constantly blasting the fireworks for weeks and weeks every autumn.
They don’t even wait till the clocks go back and start in early October. Not sure if they have some rota going amongst themselves but it is almost daily till late November.
Then they take a little break and start over again around Christmas.
The summer months are serene in comparison even though there plenty of feral kids around as well.
At least their noise is predictable and does’t make me jump every fifteen minutes unlike when one of the ferals decides to release another banger.

Ohhh- the screamers! We had a next door neighbour’s child who screamed incessantly- not through distress- she was around 11 when it started. I asked her to stop because my very young (epileptic) daughter slept in the bedroom she was screaming under (she was at the front of our house- not in her garden).

She was on facebook about 15 years later, complaining about being bullied throughout her life. I did wonder whether the ‘bullying’ was people just asking her to stfu.

Because what a joyless existence that would be, they’d become an adult and wouldn’t have a clue about the real world, plus it’s not great health wise to be sat on your arse all day 🤷🏻‍♀️

There wouldn't be if there wasn't so much shit parenting around.

Because moving to a flat will result in WAAAAAAY less noise than living in a house. 🙄

How about people just parent their children properly, and spend time with them, instead of just shoving them outside to kick balls relentlessly against the garden fence, and shriek and scream blue murder?

Amen to that!

A friend swears they've already gone forward. Not got to the bottom of why yet

I often think it is 5pm when it is actually 4pm. Only so I can have a gin and tonic though. 🤣

So we’re jumping from wildly over the hysteria around screen time to complaining kids playing in the garden, oh goody.

Which hasn't even happened yet... you must be really angry

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Ah, but at one point there were two of them!

It was a work of art, allowing everyone to experience both the blissful moment when the whumping stops, and the crashing despair when it starts again....

I used to look forward to sunny days and lighter nights but now dread it as my hideous neighbours will soon be flinging their doors and windows open from 11am til late at night treating me to their endless shouting, screaming, tinny music played via a phone and endless visitors hammering on the front door. I have gone from loving Summer to dreading it. They do not work in the mainstream economy so are at home practically all the time so there is no respite from the hell

Yeah we have a large group if slightly older kuds whi hold 'scream offs' all the time 'loudest, longest etc group screams and 'wave' screams. Not outside their iwn bloody houses. & kuck a ball of the metal garage doors in the row of garages.

kids playing - lovely

kids doing this - NOT lovely

Parenting doesnt mean ensuring children are silent and indoors at all times.

No it means that you teach them that when they are outside they don’t scream and disturb everyone else

I'm not a pensioner but I don't want to listen to the constant thud of a fucking basketball every single day during summer. Nor do I want to listen to the people a few doors along shouting and swearing instead of talking like normal people.

Before I'm accused of wanting silence I don't. I live in a street with a mixture of ages and have many lovely neighbours, it's just unfortunate that some people don't consider others.

That's very different than playing with balls in their gardens / with their friends. And that's not what the OP was about.