To want to tell them to shut the fuck up?

[Deemented]

I've recently moved to a new house and it's lovely, neighbours seem nice enough and we're settling quietly in. Only bugbear is every sodding night, apart from the weekends, a group of four young girls, aged at the most nine years old, decide to stand outside the empty house opposite singing/screeching friggin HSM songs and squealing and generally being very very loud. This happens at exactly 7pm which is the time i'm trying to put my kids to bed, and without fail, my kids just go to sleep and are woken up by them screeching.

I really want to stick my head out the window and tell them to shut the fuck up, that i'm trying to get the baby to sleep, but am not sure how it would go down with the neighbours ect - at the end of the day i have to live here and don't want to start off on the wrong foot, but it's bloody annoying.

AIBU?

Sounds annoying but can't you just go over and have a word with them?

Not BU at all, it sounds incredibly aggravating after a long day of toddler-handling - but have you tried just popping over and nicely explaining the problem, apologising for asking but would they possibly be able to be a little quieter? They're just little girls, they probably have no idea they're being annoying.

How strange.... why would their parents let 9 yr olds stand outside in the dark pissing off the neighbours?
Go and speak to them, ask where they live and go and sing outside their house! no... go and plead with the parents

Agree with MMoC- a friendly word and explaining about the baby should sort it hopefully. It does in my street when things get boisterous (sp?) in the summer months.

They are only kids
Ask them nicley not to do it and explain why

don't shout fuck off at them btw, everyone will think you're a complete nutter!

Not BU to be fed up, it must be exhausting, but at 7pm they might not realise they're keeping small children awake, I'd go and talk to them nicely and say.

"To want to tell them to shut the fuck up?"

YABU - what's wrong with politely asking them to keep the volume down a bit?

It's not what you say, its how you say it.

Yes, i know - i really wouldn't literally tell the to STFU - as much as i want to. And it's difficult to go out and tell them to stop, as i say, it's during bedtime and i'm on my own with my two littlies, so i can't leave them.

ingles...why strange?

Kids should be out on the streets at that age. It's hardly late.

we used to have kids outside the neighbours house (teenagers up to 10 of them)

the neighbours didn't speak much english.

eventually I just stuck my head out and explained to them that the family had young children, and they apologised and moved on. (this was in a pretty rough area in Manchester)

If you treat kids decently they tend to act well.

if not then maybe approach their parents.

Well, because it's cold, dark and wet noonki and they're only 9.
As I live in the middle of a field I can't let ds1 stand out on street corners in the dark, but even if I could, I wouldn't dream of it! And no, I don't think kids should be out on the streets, kicking around with nothing to do.

no it's not wrong in your head to scream fuck off you fucking little twats

however! can someone else put the kids down one night or just get them off one night a tiny bit later
you go out prempting the HSM crew and say girls look I'm putting my babies to bed
every night you're out here and you are very loud and it's disturbing us - how's about you sing quietly and sound kinda grateful
if you go out theer all guns blazing wanting to throttle them they will do what any 9 year old will - be an obnoxious brat.

If it doesn't stop then maybe a quiet word with the plastic police just to move them along and look at quite why they are out at all.

yes you are being unreasonable

it's only 7 and your littlies will go to bed regardless tbh

ingles when we were out on the streets at that age, we weren't up to nothing we were playing 44, dancing, and just mucking about.

Sounds like they are up to nothing more.

The noise is annoying as it collides with bedtime so ask them to move away at that time.

just mucking about is nothing!
and that leads to trouble.
it is with the kids in my village anyway

YANBU to want to do it!!

However, if it's everynight at 7, then be prepared and tomorrow night go across and ask them nicely to find another stage to perform their show.

If it is right across the road, why can't you leave your kids for 5 minutes or take them with you in their jammies??

Turn a hose on them then say 'Oh sorry I thought that screeching was cats on heat. But that was you singing....?'

That's a great idea that might even work. It does seem an odd thing to do if there are only four of them - surely they could do their singing somewhere warmer. It may just be that as the house opposite is empty and yours probably was too for a while they found that no one minded them being very noisy, and have got in the habit of it. Most children are unaware of just how loud they are, and in a little gaggle get carried away with it.

Well I would imagine that at that age they don't really have the awareness of others to realise that they might be disturbing someone. I mean, I know that at 9 I certainly wasn't aware that there were people in their houses getting children to sleep at 7pm, it just never entered my mind, children of that age are naturally self absorbed.

Calm down and realise that it is not malicious and go and have a quiet word with them.

I would tell them you saw someone hanging around and they would be safer if they stood beside their own doors, just in case.

Deste .......LOL

Madamdeathstare... I'd take the kids anyday! Do you know the definition of a gentleman?? A man who knows how to play the bagpipes.
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But chooses not to!!!

(Ouch - can feel the flames already)

OP How did it go tonight???