Dilemma: Vile, vile neighbour who shouts "Shut up" and "Sort your baby out" when she cries at night, well...

[Tinker]

...my eldest daughter plays with his partner's daughter. In the street I can cope with but I'm right to put my foot down at her playing in their house aren't I? Aren't I?

Now he's just let on to my partner [confused emoticon] Why doesn't he realise we're ignoring him?

face them up. most people crap their kecks when you face them up. it takes balls.

nicely - not confrontationally, knock on the door - when they answer smile and say " i would like to talk to you about my baby...."

let the tone of the conversation be

the walls are thin. its the planners fault - all planners and developers are shit arsemonkeys.

but please realise that babies cry - its what they do.

if in anyway you are concerned for my children i would be more than happy for you to ring social services and i will have an assessment done - but please, shouting through the walls doesnt help - in fact it just proves the walls are thin and the developers and planners are arsemonkeys.

i'm sorry that it is disturbing you. and we dont like it when our baby cries either - maternal instinct and all that. please believe me when i say i am doing everything i feel is right for my baby.

Tinker, sell, quick then. You're right not to get into any kind of official dispute if you don't want to declare it. God, I'd hate her to be my childminder wouldn't you? Definitely tell them what you think as you go. And step up moving if you can.

Thank you again www and custy.

We had this in our old house when dd was little woman had two teenage girls who were even noisier than my bubba but i never complained! She used to bang on walls next to DD's cot and she was in our room so i know she wasn't screaming, just crying or whinging sometimes before she would settle herself.
I told her how can you expect her to settle when you bang on wall and shout so she is then scared. She called me a 'prim bitch' and so I let rip- i'm sure any mum will say that sleep deprivation makes you !!! I said she was a selfish cow and if I ever heard her shouting through the walls at my baby I would start complaining about her parties and her kids being left day and night and being noisy and arguing with their foul mouth... I was hardly one to talk tho called her a stupid bitch and to keep her mouth shut next time.
It worked tho, she never did bang on the walls or shout again- probably just cursed under her breath! And she never spoke to me again but then it was no loss.

next time they bang on the door...go round with a sub machine gun.

if thats not quite what your looking for then take baby round, put baby in neighbours arms and say "hey if you can do it better then be my guest"

the sad little arsewipe will probably be so stunned he wont know what to do.
when he truies to make you take baby back you can then say that you dont enjoy being woken day and night either but that its a lot louder in your house than it is in his, if you can cope with so can he. then say if he knocks through the walls again you will make a formal complaint to the police about threatening behaviour.

lol at the sub-machine gun. He did it again last night. Unbelievable really since every Friday night they entertain us with their sing-a-long parties in their living room interspersed with liberal use of teh f word all night. All going on until 1am. Sound just like your neighbour pol26. I know they think I'm "posh" .