Is 6.30am too early for young children to play in the garden?

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It is light early in the morning and young children often wake early. The weather is warm at the moment so being outside in the garden in the early morning can be attractive to some people. However, if you had a young child wake early would you have them out in the garen playing at 6.30am, bearing in mind that young children aren’t often able to play quietly and keep their voices down? Also, would you raise your own voice to join in their play and interact with them at that time or do you think it is too early to let them into the garden? If so, what time do you think is acceptable?

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Yes to early. 8am earilest.

Yes!!! Very inconsiderate of the parents.

Wouldn’t bother me in the slightest

Yes far to early!

8.30am.

Too early and I hate to be that person but I’d be knocking on the door of whoever’s house it was.

Normally I would say no. With the weather as it is this week I would have no issue with it as long as they weren’t being over noisy.

Far too early, where I live it seems to be 9-9 for playing out/playing in the garden which works well.

I wouldn’t mind and in this weather I doubt many people are sleeping in anyway

8am at the very earliest during the week, 9am at the weekend is how I tend to do it.

Take them to a playground (assuming it's not right next to someone's house) at that time. We used to live in a really hot country when my kids were little and we're often at the playground before 9am.

6.30 in a garden with close neighbours is too early.

It’s too early .You could go into the garden with them and play something quiet; the extreme weather means that we are all up getting our day done at daybreak but I don’t think they should be playing ‘free form’ until 8 or 8.30 on a week day and until after 9 at the weekend.

Yes, too early. Anything before 8am is too early.

Some arsehole has been gardening here with industrial machines since 6 so I say have at it

Are you my neighbour 🤣 I was just complaining to OH that they've been out playing in the garden since 6.30am! I think 7.30am is fine on week days but 6.30am is a bit too early.

With the current weather (assuming you're somewhere like me that is getting daily highs of mid-30s+), and mid-week I'd say let them out and wouldn't have a problem with neighbours doing so. (I don't have children myself). I would expect parents not to be making a lot of noise but wouldn't have a problem with kids making happy playing noise as long as it wasn't too excessive.

It's fine. As long as they aren't silly noisy or playing with loud toys. Let them get cool.
And I live in a cramped terrace where I can hear everything.

I'm an early riser but I too think that's way too early. I appreciate that I have considerate neighbours who don't allow their youngsters out that early. I like the peace of first thing in the morning, especially now when I have the windows and doors open.

Are we talking preschoolers her? I'd assume school age children would be busy of a weekday having breakfast, getting ready for school etc. You're right that preschool children are less able to regulate their volume control and I personally never allowed mine out that early as I respected that some people were still sleeping at that time.

I think unless they can be very quiet it will annoy the neighbours. I get why you want to though as it's the only time it's comfortable outside.

No that's fine by me. My youngest two wake often before 6am.

I think it really depends. Occasionally I will have my coffee outside and the kids will be outside too, however our gardens and houses aren’t small so there aren’t loads of neighbours on top of eachother.
If it’s focused on this week only and they don’t usually do it I couldn’t find myself being annoyed if I was a neighbour, likely the rest of the day is too hot for the kids to play out.

Generally I’d say it was too early and shouldn’t be out before 8am but this week I think anything goes. Likely to be too hot later and we are all awake anyway.

Yes way too early. Very annoying for everyone else (looking at you, next door but one!)

Normally no. But in this heat I think it’s fine. People are frothing at the mouth at those walking dogs during the heat of the day instead of early morning. Why would we not care about exercising children in the same way?