What is an acceptable time for child in garden on trampoline on a Sunday morning?

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Half the problem in today's society is this constant entertainment of children rather than just letting them be. There really is no need for swings, slides and trampolines in gardens. Take them to the park to play on those things. This 'always going here and there and doing this and that' culture just means that kids are over indulged and conditioned to always need to be doing something/entertained from the second they open their eyes. No need for kids to be doing anything early morning other than having some breakfast/chill time indoors. Plenty of time to play outdoors the rest of the day

Op didn’t say “people in garden” as if restricting an adult from wandering out with their morning cuppa to admire their flowers, it is specifically referring to kids on a trampoline so that is different - we all know the noise that can make. Both trampoline and kids!

I’d say 8.30am. Those saying 10am are being cheeky, that’s a lengthy lie-in which is a luxury and is not core sleeping hours.

Most people with small children have been up 4 hours by 10am and need to be getting out to enjoy the day!

Link to that stat please?

I am. It's my only proper day off.

Well, for a start you can enjoy your garden without making enough to noise to disturb anyone surely? I always did. My daughter always did. My neighbours (almost) always have (exception - when I lived with a few holiday cottages around - adults outside drinking and playing music - and yes, using a trampoline - late at night). You don’t have to stay out of the sun between 11 and 3 in the U.K. in April, either.

Get out to enjoy the day when you like. This isn’t about not going out. It’s specifically about trampolining (and I guess by extension similarly loud activities). Just don’t make loud noise - loud enough to wake neighbours - before about 9 or 10. Or at all really. There’s no need for that level of noise. Or go to a park. A generation ago nobody had play equipment at home so those noisier activities happened exclusively in public places.

@cardibach I mean 9 or 10am is your personal arbitrary cut off. And 9am is only 30 minutes later than the time I’ve suggested as reasonable, so let’s say 8.30/9 and we’re actually pretty much in agreement.

The average office worker is probably already in the office by 8.30/9 so that’s already a lie-in of 1-2 hours on a Sunday and not inconsiderate to be out in the garden after that, including on trampoline.

Your message seems to say that there’s never an acceptable time to make a noise loud enough to wake a neighbour in your garden, which suggests you think no one should ever use their own trampoline in their own garden which is a fairly unreasonable take.

If I wanted to spend my entire weekend at the park playground or other public space I would have saved a lot of money by buying an apartment without an outdoor space.

@NameChangedForThis2025 is possible to use a trampoline without making ridiculous levels of noise. It’s a relatively new thing for them to be in gardens and I’m not sure it’s a positive move. I do think generally we should try to keep5he noise down if we live near other people - I actually like the sound of children playing and people socialising in their gardens but there’s no need for it to disrupt other people’s lives. I come in late a couple of times a week and I’m always careful about the level of noise I make in my house as it’s terraced and I don’t want to disturb others. I’m up so I could say it’s a reasonable time to be up but I don’t.

Sorry wrong thread!

Google is your friend.

what percentage of the uk work 9-5

A generation ago nobody had play equipment at home so those noisier activities happened exclusively in public places.

That's nonsense, I'm in my 50s and we had swings in our garden and had friends who had climbing frames. The first garden trampoline marketed in the UK was in 1983, and it really took off as a popular toy in the 90s and 00s.

Exactly. My daughter was born in 1996. My childhood was in the 60s/70s. A generation before hers. I didn’t know anyone with more than a swing in the garden. My daughter and her friends also didn’t have more than that.
The point is though, when houses are close together it’s neighbourly to keep your loud noise elsewhere or at least at times nobody is disturbed by it.

I don't see how a trampoline is any worse than the thud of a football against a wall or the boing of a basketball on the patio or the rhythmic squeak/ catchunk of a swing set. And all of those are infinitely better than the sound of a lawn mower or strimmer!

I'd say 9am at the earliest

So, you are a young baby boomer who is the mother of a young Millennial. You do realise that what you did as a child is two generations ago now? And that trampolines were very popular when your daughter was a child even if you didn't buy her one. The children with trampolines now are Gen Alpha, the children of the Millennials.

All that ‘generation’ stuff is guff.
My daughter doesn’t have children. I’m one generation before her. If you really want to get picky I’ll amend my comment to ‘until a generation or so ago…’.
And whatever bollocks ‘generation’ you think anyone belongs to it’s still impolite to make a lot of noise and disturb other people, especially (but not exclusively) early on a Sunday morning.

Edit: wait…do you think ‘generation’ refers to those silly labels and nothing else? It has an actual objective meaning.

Google says just 10 - 15% work on Sundays.

Of course, plenty of them won't have an early start.

Which seems to suggest very few people need to get up early on a Sunday.

9am, same for lawnmoving, DIY, hoovering or loud music if sharing walls.

I think 9 on a Sunday, 8 the rest of the week. But if they tend to screech a lot, an hour later.

Kids have had play equipment in the garden and the street for over a hundred years. Balls in particular have always been common and noisy. At various points over the years hula hoops, tennis balls and rackets, pogo sticks, space hoppers, skipping ropes and water pistols (amoung others) have been common garden toys that children have run around with whilst shouting and laughing.

Although on a Sunday most would have been up with their parents reasonably early for Church until the '60s.

7:30/8:00 probably. I’d be up anyway.

You know very well balls aren't the type of ‘play equipment’ I meant.
Anyway, this is all a bit of a waste of time because a worrying number of people clearly don’t think they need to live in a way that doesn’t disrupt everyone around them at all. I’m out.

I really didn't know that. Why wouldn't you mean balls, one of the noisiest garden toys once a couple of kids get hold of it? People have always lived pretty noisily. We seem to have less tolerance for it nowadays than we used to.