to be fed up with neighbours' bedtime toddler running routine?

[juststoop]

Every single evening, the neighbours next door seem to try and tire out their toddler before bed by letting him run around the house screaming. I don’t mean a bit of noise, I mean full-on running laps with the volume getting louder. I can hear them encouraging him to run faster.

It happens every night, at the same time and the noise carries straight through the walls. It is not just footsteps, it is the shouting and high-pitched screaming that goes with it.

I did mention it to them once and they said that they do it on purpose to tire him out before bed, like it was some kind of clever routine. Basically they weren't going to stop.

I get that toddlers are noisy and I am not expecting silence. I wish it would stop.

Gosh some people have no idea of the lives of people from one post on mumsnet!

Yes, I agree with this. I’ve had neighbours who, on being asked to keep it down after hours of noise at 2am, called me a fucking cunt and started deliberately jumping on and throwing things on the floor (they were in the apartment above) - so I think that colours my view.

YANBU.

If it's any consolation in a grim 'it could be worse' type of way, my neighbours' youngest child does this most nights from about 9pm right through to about 1-2am.

They are only little and won't be doing it when they are 16.

Or next year, likely. Have you asked your neighbours whether they could keep the screams down a bit? Hasn't the toddler gone to bed by about 7pm anyway?

That is a longer than the toddler next door. How do you cope?

Ha, yes DD2 still goes all giddy, silly and chatty when she's really tired then drops (and is 17 now!) Probably a bit quieter (mostly) than when she was two though.

google black metal. blast on full volume.

How do you cope?

Through a combination of gritted teeth, loud TV and headphones. But it's not ideal.

Yep. You do exactly what you like and fuck the world around you. Too much of it.