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?

I said earlier that I think 6.30 is far too early, but thinking about it, if children are old enough to be left in a garden unsupervised, then they are old enough to understand that they need to play quietly and not disturb people bwcause it’s very early. If theyre not old enough to be out on their own, then a parent should be making sure they are quiet.

Builders can't make a noise until 8. In this weather and on a week day i don't think anyone would complain about children having breakfast in the garden from 7 onwards. No jumping on the godforsaken trampolines until after 8. It is normally the parents that are loudest with their performative parenting.

Pompous crap.

"I am actually entitled..."

Yes, yes you are. That's what I was saying.

And anyone who uses that lazy BS "If you want complete peace and quiet, move to the middle of nowhere or buy a big piece of land" perfectly illustrates the type of person you are but very much misses the point that we're all talking about unnecessary noise at an inappropriate time.

If they can’t keep quiet then not until 9am.

9 or 10 is too extreme for me. If you need to sleep later in the morning for whatever reason you're surely either used to the noise or wearing earplugs.

Far too early.

Yes

This week it's fine. If it's not in the middle of a red alert heatwave, no. You should try and keep the noise down though.

8.00 no earlier. 6.30 is early for everyone. Drop them a little now? The mum is hopefully just unaware that they are disrupting people sleep...

Yes, it's at least 2hrs too early to let young children out in the garden, especially if they're prone to screaming/playing loud games.

If i was your neighbour id be really upset. I dont finish work until11.pm by the time im home and sitting down and trying to decompress its 11:45pm. Im not sleeping in the heat and im back in work for 8.30. I dont want shrieks waking me up earlier than I need to be. Try as hard as you like but kids still make a noise when they play,its normal. They dont intend to be loud, they are just kids playing.

I've had kids and hot summers but I knew my neighbours worked irregular hours and considered them.

I think if they're likely to be noisy then no.
Not everyone works daytime shifts and even if they do, the hot nights mean people are sleeping badly.

There's someone in my neighbourhood who lets their (small) children play in the back garden until quite late at night, but 70% of that time is one or other of the children literally screaming because they've seen a bee/wasp/bug/blade of grass that has upset them, and the rest of the time they seem to be crying. Then the parents should at them for being too loud or for crying.

So much angst from some parents.

There is no reason to allow kids outside that early.

Mine are 3 and 5. Looking after them is not a nightmare in the heat. It's the same, just warmer.

Far too early. I never used to let mine out before 9am on weekends. My neighbours however let their v screamy shrieky kids out at any hour they like. Gentle parenting etc.
6.30am Sunday screaming and trampolining. I secretly fucking hate their parents and so do all the other neighbours

Everyone saying that it’s ok because of the hot weather…. I’d say it’s even shittier to let kids out at dawn when it’s hot than when it’s cold, because in hot weather people have no choice but to have their windows open and be subjected to every screech, howl and bounce of the little darlings’ dawn activities.

At least in winter if the horrors emerge at dawn we have the choice to close our sodding windows.

Agree, I did the same with my children as soon as they could understand too. There is no way that I would have allowed them to play outside before 9am. Selfish behaviour.

They cant really complain then if you were to sit out till midnight with music playing while the little darlings try to sleep if 6.30am is fine for kids 11.30pm is fine for adults

Too early. I don't even get up for work until seven and at weekends not til nine

Doesn’t bother me.

Mainly because I’m up and out the house at 4.30 so wouldn’t hear them but also because currently it’s too hot by 9/10am and it’ll be for a few days only.

o might have an objection if they are screeching or hitting a ball against a fence 🤣 - but quietly playing - meh!

Usually it would be a horrified 'Hell yes 6.30 am is too early' from me but in this heat I'd be far more tolerant, for small children at least.

Still a hard no to party music, barking dogs and loud parents though.

Not ok generally, but in this heatwave I think most people would be tolerant provided they are not making excessive noise.

Our neighbours have got an older toddler along with a 6 month old, and they're often out in the garden before 7am. And the older one is very shouty/whiny.... I've been tempted to shout "put him back to bed, for all our sakes" on many an occasion. It's so rude at the weekends, especially when it's the only time you have off.

7.30 in the week.

8.30 weekend.

I have had very early risers and it’s easy to lose sight of what a normal start time is.

Those saying people won’t be sleeping in given the heat - on the contrary, often it will have taken people hours to get to sleep until it cools down, the morning is the coolest time so people may well be trying to sleep in if they are able to. And of course most will have their windows open.

Also you need blackout blinds - easyblackout are my preferred ones

Yes, I am the pissed off neighbour!

Nope, mine don’t play in the garden until minimum 9am, 10:30am on sundays