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?

My child would love that, she’d be out in her swimsuit shrieking with delight.

me

Yes, but we have already changed our working patterns this week. Trains aren’t running, people are being advised not to travel, schools are closing early due to heat.

It’s an unusual situation so normal rules don’t apply otherwise we’d all be trekking into the office and kids sitting in school til 3pm.

I'd say 7.30am in the week, 8 at the weekend

My youngest is still in school - they had air conditioners delivered! My eldest is a teen, just finished his A levels so hoping for some rest and lie-ins rather than 6.30 wake-ups. Not everyone is woken by 5am bin collections and even then that’s probably only once a week. If there are peaceful gardens at the back and people obviously use the back rooms as bedrooms and have their windows open at night in this weather then I would have thought there is a different expectation of what is acceptable in the early morning to what is experienced facing a location that is usually noisy at 5am like an urban high street, for example!

Why do some posters have neither the wit nor intelligence to realise that the rest of the population doesn’t have identical lives to them?

I was sleeping at 6.30 this morning. I’d have been furious if I’d have been woken up by kids in the garden at that time. It boils my piss that the selfish cow over the road thinks it’s acceptable to let her kids scream and shout on a trampoline from 7.30ish on a Sunday.

I don’t sleep particularly well because I’m disabled and live with chronic pain, and I suffer with chronic migraines. I don’t expect people to pussyfoot around me and keep the noise down during the day, when I need a nap, however letting kids play out at 6.30am is anti social.

Yes. Obviously.

I don't use the train. I WFH = no travel. Son's school is open. Nothing has changed.
I was asleep at 6.30am.

Me.
Our bins were collected on Monday.
Being woken up by anything is annoying.

Me!

I yawn at your yawn!

It IS the modern way. Selfishness is endemic and people are not considerate of their neighbours so frequently now.

I am the generation you speak of. We were out all day unsupervised. Not at 6.30am making a racket though and our parents would have told us off not fecking well joined in 😂

In this heat 100% no, not too early. My little boy was out at a similar time this morning. I try to be as quiet as possible and also encourage the children to play quietly too. In this heat it could be the only safe time for little ones to be outside.

far too early

8 am on a weekday and 9am on a weekend

earlier than that is profoundly anti-social

I'm sleeping because I just got air con fitted <brushes shoulders>

anyway in this heat no I wouldn't mind they can hardly go out later can they? That goes for dogs as well I don't even mind a few rogue woofs at that time either. (Even before air con 😂)

Normally I'd say it was too early, but with temperatures as they are this week, I'd cut them some sslack.Its far too hot for them atm. But I wouldn't be happy to hear raised adult voices.

Way too early. 9 at the very earliest.

Much too early. Please don’t be that person

Sorry but yes too early unless threy are just going to sit quietly and read or similar. 8 am would be more appropriate

9am and not a minute before

Bloody hell! We’re all barely sleeping due to heat as it is - you think this is acceptable?
6-30am?
I hope someone near you wants to do bagpipe practise at 6-30am “to avoid the heat”
Ridiculous.

Exactly , my bedroom is at the back of the house and I didn’t get to sleep until about 3:30/4 am so 6:30 is the middle of the night for me . Our neighbours at the back and on one side are inconsiderate and noisy but even they know that 6:30 is too early for being noisy in the garden .

Far to early .
So is 8am !

I think it’s fine during the week I’d be up for work before then anyway as would most people I know - at the weekend I think I would try and make it a little later but as long as they play quietly I think also fine.

I would tend to keep them in the house until at least 8.30, but I tell mine to keep quiet in the garden, because there could be people who are ill and need to rest, or people working, at all times. And if they want to be noisy, we can go to the park. I'd keep the dog quiet between 9-9, only allowed to bark if someone comes to the door (and neighbours should be happy with that as if anyone comes outside those times, it might be a neighbourhood burglar!). I wouldn't play loud music without checking with the neighbours and inviting them.