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

The noise is something like:

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Feels like hours

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Very rubbish parenting if you think DC kicking football against your neighbours fence is okay. If you don’t have a big enough garden so they don’t do that, why don’t you move to somewhere with no neighbours and an acre or more of garden.

I assume you wouldn’t accept a neighbour continually hitting your fence so why is it okay for your DC to do it?

And there is a happy medium between children screaming, kicking footballs against fences and staying indoors all day on screens.

@OooPourUsACupLove That did make me laugh 😂

I get it, but you're not the OP and you haven't heard it, how long it's going on for or how loud it is. I used to get kids kicking a ball against the wall of my house. Yes, it can be very annoying. I understand.

But at the same time, kids need to be able to kick a ball, and they are in their own garden. It's good that they are outside.

Noise issues need a bit of give and take on both sides and accusing the parents of not parenting well is only going to rub people up the wrong way. The bit that gets me is that OP says they should be taken to the park. Perhaps the parents are busy sometimes and the kids entertain themselves. They don't need to be taken to the park by an adult every time they need fresh air. They have a garden to play in.

Of course it's not OK to constantly kick a ball against the neighbour's fence but if OP has a problem then she needs to talk to the parents, and not accuse them of being bad parents just because kids are playing in the garden.

No, but pps have touched on the screaming and I was curious to know if that pp’s attitude was as entitled on that front.

Far too much time on your hands!

Eh? It's not until the weekend that they go forward? In the UK anyway. So I'm guessing you're somewhere else 😁

Agreed and accidents happen, as long as it’s sorted, which it was.

There's this thing called copy and paste....

But I am making a deliberate point with these posts, which is that a relentless whump whump whump going on and on is interrupting and dominating. It's very easy to say "just ignore it" without appreciating how intrusive it is.

My posts are attempting to convey that reality of intrusiveness and how it dominates whatever else you might be trying to do.

FWIW my house backs on or overlooks about 14 gardens. In the summer there are always kids playing, adult parties and bbqs, sometimes full on soundsystems. And I'm ok with that, live and let live. Balls being kicked or hit relentlessly against your wall is a different proposition.

You’ve still got too much time on your hands!

@BoogieTownTop probably took as long as your responses

A bit of shrieking and laughter, yes.

But that concerted, top-of the-lungs 'AAAAH! AAAAH! AAAAH!' thing some children find it necessary to do while playing?* To mind about that isn't being a 'misery'. And it hasn't always been a feature of children playing, it's relatively recent. Presumably you're not defending that sort of screaming?

(* I'm not referring to SEN here, I realise there are different factors in the mix there. I'm talking about when kids scream for the sheer hell of it.)

Absolutely this. Easy to see who the inadequate parents are on this thread.

Maybe I should get outside and play then!

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(In case you are concerned, took me less time to post this than it will take you to think up a snide reply 😀)

Take down your fence so the balls can’t bang against it. There you go. Sorted.

Hmm I wonder how irritating your neighbours find you?

Hope the children enjoy the lighter evenings when the clocks go forward!

What seven words? 🤔

My neighbours love me. Because I'm the sort of person who helps neighbours and builds communities, not the sort of antisocial arsehole who

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I am however absolutely loving how wound up the "they are just having fun, ignore it, why are you getting wound up" people are getting with the incessant whump-whumping... even though unlike people stuck listening to it in their own homes, all they need to do is scroll past!

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The word whump's losing all meaning 😂

Says the person accusing others of reporting their whump post?

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Enjoy your summer!

Must get the GCs a new football!

Don generalise. I’m in my 70s. I like to hear children playing out. There are grumpy people of all ages. What I wouldn’t like is people playing loud music after 11pm, during the day a bit of noise is normal.

Our new neighbour’s children do the football against the fence bang bang bang - super annoying. First time the ball came over shortly after they’d first moved in - came round with his mum, v polite - can I have my ball back - of course no issues. Then last week - knock on the door as it had come over the fence - I didn’t answer as I was on a teams call - so then he just starts going into our front garden (don’t know how that would help as ball out the back) - so then I have to answer the door - I was slightly grumpy and said I’m in the middle of a meeting, so it will have to be later that I get it. Bit later my husband gets and throws it back to them - no issues. But then 10 mins later it’s over again - I was grumpy I’ll admit - my office is right next to our front door, if I’m WFH I’m still working and I don’t want to be interrupted all day to throw their ball back. The additional context is I think his parents are entitled lazy and selfish because they always park in the visitor bay between our houses despite having a perfectly big driveway for their two massive cars. Hmmm methinks we’re going to find these new neighbours annoying in several ways…..

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I also laughed at the unknown person who

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Little kids having a kickabout - not, in general, noisy or annoying

12 yo plus dad doing target practice up against the fence for hours on end, when they know full well that we are attempting to sit on the patio the other side of the fence about 6ft from where the ball is continually whumping - really, really fucking annoying and entitled, bordering on distressing when it's Every Fucking Day, even when the sun is not out. I swear our old NDN thinks his kid is the next Lionel Messi, it was ridiculous

I think I love you, @OooPourUsACupLove

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