To expect a little peace at 7.30am at weekends?

[princesssusu]

Every summer our neighbours allow their 3 children to play out, very loudly, at 7.30 in the morning at weekends. Sometimes it is earlier and with warm weather and open windows I am fed up of being woken at weekends by screaming and fighting. I have teenagers who work on a very different timescale but I do remember early mornings. However i did not inflict their early morning antics on the rest of the neighbourhood. What is a reasonable time to play out?

YANBU. 7.30 is way too early for a weekend.....i don't let DD outside til 9 on a sat/sun and even then I only feel comfortable because the neighbours have young children too so are likely to be up!

9ish is the earliest I throw let mine outside at the weekend

9.30/10 at the very earliest. We have some very screechy children next door (and a fishwife mum who doesn't help!) but to be fair she doesn't let them out anywhere near that early.

Have you spoken to your neighbours about this? I do think that 7.30am on a saturday or sunday morning is too early to let your children wake up the neighbourhood. They might listen to you and be a bit more considerate, but they may be turfing the children out into the back garden because their bedroom is at the front and this gets them a more peaceful lie-in, and they could decide they care more about their sleep than yours, sadly.

We did have a similar situation at our old house - a neighbour's adult dd worked shifts, and the children playing in the garden did disturb her - when my neighbour told me, I was mortified and did do my best to keep the children quieter - I hope your neighbour does the same.

I think that after 8.30 in the summer is okay. Many parents will want to avoid their DC playing out when the sun is at its hottest, so will let them out earlier in the morning. I would consider 7.30 much to early too.

I would say 09.00 and no earlier and 09.30 for preference... I would think that a kind and polite word to the neighbours would be in order, tehy might not realise how noisy the DCs are and not realise that they are waking up the neighbours

Most people without little ones (like me!) don't want to be woken up by screeching at 8.30 on a Sunday, either.

YANBU. I have 2 very loud, lively daughters of my own (10 yr old not as bad as the 2 year old but together they sound like a dozen giggly girls!) and I NEVER open the back door until at least 9/9.30am at the weekends and usually not until mid-day as we tend to go swimming or to the park.

I wish my neighbour would do the same! She has a 10yr old that has the most annoying, high pitched screechy voice and a very lively (and quite often naughty) 5 year old who she lets out anytime they wake (this has been as early as 6am!) then you have to add her fishwife shrill into the mix and it really isn't a pleasant start to the day!

Thanks for the support. They actually live behind our next door neighbours and we do not share a boundary. It would mean going around to the next street to speak to them. Maybe I could send them a polite note, I would sign it. The mum also has fishwife tendencies which are not evident early in the mornings so I suspect she is in bed enjoying some peace and dad is a pilot apparently so may not always be there. Scary sounding mum also makes me a bit nervous of confronting her in person.