Neighbours child

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would you let your child shout on a neighbour over and over again?
now I might be hot tired and being a grump but next doors child is bugging the life out of me.
just got through the door from a long day at work, the open the back door as the kitchen is hotter than the sun and I needed to make dinner.
as soon as the door was open next doors 7 year old child is bellowing on me. Shouting my name over and over again, standing on the fence to look in the kitchen window and shouting “I know you can hear me”
I did eventually go out, once dinner was cooking and I had 5 mins to spare.
He’s out in the garden with both parents, little sister and his gran! I relatively politely said please stop shouting on me I’m trying to sort tea, what do you need me for?
turns out he didn’t even want to speak to me he just likes being loud and annoying
it’s becoming a regular issue, if I go out to hang washing=shouting, pottering in the garden=shouting, sitting having a coffee=shouting.
tonight I am a bit hangry so I did say to his parents, can you try to keep that to a minimum please it’s a bit annoying. Seems to have fallen on deaf ears as he’s still going.
would I be unreasonable to send a follow up message to his mum (have each others numbers for emergency use and we’re not texters) We’re friendly but not friends, have the odd neighbourly conversation if we pass in the street etc or would that ruffle feathers and just cause an atmosphere?

Pedant's Corner is that way. 👉

Regional in some cases, so rather rude to be grammar policing.

Well who made that stupid law!

Oh heck this reopened a memory! My neighbour had 4 kids all close together (1 set were twins) and all 4 of them used to hang over the back garden wall shouting at me.

I resorted to putting headphones on to read my book in peace.

Kids then ramped it up a level by throwing their toys in the garden, I ignored their pleas to throw them back over, continued reading my book. I left them in situ for a few days then threw them back over the wall.

Later that day, they were back throwing the toys over again and I lost all 'kids being kids' sympathy and binned them all then went in the house and switched off my doorbell 😂.

Ignore him and get some loud music blasting! Preferably with expletives. Wind his parents up just like he’s winding you up

Spray him with the hose on the jet setting. It worked for my neighbours cat

My DC used to play ball nicely in our garden. DH was the 'pest'. Every time he played ball with them he managed to throw/kick the ball into next door's garden!
A couple of times he sent one DC to ask for the ball back.

One time NDN said the person who sent the ball into their garden had to ask for it back! We all had a great laugh when he went round and said "Mr/Mrs NDN please can I have my ball back". They were the loveliest NDNs ever.

I'd go out the front and go and ring their doorbell. When they answer say "your son was calling for me, I assumed you needed me"
They will soon get bored of you rining the doorbell !

It's dialect, used a lot in parts of Scotland.

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Has he jumped the fence and trampled your flowers to get his toys back yet? 🙈

Oh come on, he’s 7 not 2! At 7 he’s likely spent at least 1 if not 2 years in school. He should be well aware what is and isn’t acceptable social behaviour. If he isn’t it’s because his parents are utterly useless.

No op. Of course his parents shouldn’t be letting him repeatedly shout for you. It’s ridiculous. Apart from annoying you, it should be annoying the hell out of them too surely!

At this stage I would be direct and speak to his parents. Say something along the lines of it’s getting too much and you would rather they deal with it than you lose your temper with him. If it continues you will have to tell him off yourself, but you would rather it came from them seeing as it’s their child and their job not yours!