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Way OT Rant - noisy kids

I usually do. But kids playing do not bother me at all.

Kids are kids. The school holiday will soon be over and in a few years they will not be kids but adults.

Reply to
ARWadsworth
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... And even more troublesome.

And then *their* kids will be even worse.

Reply to
Frank Erskine

Objectionable, loud, annoying pensioners have had a lifetime of experience and have chosen not to better themselves. Kids are kids.

Reply to
ARWadsworth

Quite true, I managed to break six, maybe seven bones. None of them were mine though.

Reply to
dennis

well according to the statistics, with luck they will all be dead from obesity related disease any day.

Then we can turn em into useful biofuel.

Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

If it was confined to school holidays maybe, just maybe, it would be tolerable - unfortunately it isn't. You cannot possibly justify that four kids (plus sometimes their friends, but not always) should be allowed to create so much noise that ten, possibly more, households have to go through summer (and not just summer, but almost any dry time) with their doors and windows closed to block out the noise. We all have gardens but only one out of ten households can utilise theirs. If you think that's acceptable then I've lost all respect for you that I've built up over the time I've been frequenting this group.

Reply to
Pete Zahut

How do they get their paws in the stirrups?

-- Halmyre

Reply to
Halmyre

That be a secret known only to true Nar-folk.

I could tell you, but my dog would have to kill you.

Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

If the noise is just kids playing (screaming and shouting) then it does not bother me at all. The next door neighbour has 4 lads and they make a lot of noise when they are playing outside. After 8pm the only noise I hear is usually followed by their Dad shouting at them to be quiet.

Now a stereo on all day at full blast would be a different thing. But it's not usually kids who do that and fortunately something that I have not had suffered.

Cheers

Adam

Reply to
ARWadsworth

Agreed. There is a big difference between natural sounds and artifical ones such as amplified music.

Where I used to live there was the "battle of the stereos" where, as soon as one person turned on their stereo, then someone else would turn theirs on louder and so on....

Reply to
Mark

Thankyou for emptying my mouth of coffee.

Reply to
Jules Richardson

Agreed. Although we have our own screaming kids (aged 7, 5 and 2-1/2) we are also within screaming distance of a primary school, a playing field and an aviary. None of these bother us in the least.

SteveW

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Reply to
Steve Walker

You and Adam seem to be missing the point though. As I said, I know kids make noise (personally I hate it but that's just me), but my point is that the parents shouldn't allow their kids to bring misery to other people. Parents seem to have an inbuilt ability to ignore any noise their little darlings produce (as you yourself admit above) and don't give a stuff about who else they inconvenience.

There's two aspects to this problem. First of all, like I said in my OP, less than 500yds from here round the back of the newsagents, is a wood with a stream where the kids can explore, climb trees, build dens, discover stream-dwelling monsters, and make as much noise as their lungs are capable of producing without bothering anybody.

Presumably the parents don't want their kids playing in the woods as they're always in the garden, but because they're in a garden and noise carries over to other gardens, the kids should be told to be quieter and to have some common courtesy and consideration for others. Good manners, courtesy and consideration for others, and a realisation that what you do has an effect on others is what's needed.

Reply to
Pete Zahut

What a sweeping statement. Parents are not some different species. There are considerate parents and inconsiderate parents just like any other sub-group of h*mo sapiens. I suspect the former category is much more numerous. As a parent myself I am well aware of how much noise children can make and I often tell them off many times per day. However it is rather like trying to stop the tide coming in. Children are not small or defective adults and do not always behave in the way we would like no matter how good the parenting they get.

So you know for sure that these children never visit "the wood at the back of the newsagents"? And there may be a good reason why they play in the garden. They may be too young to play out for example.

Children are not born with an innate sense of consideration. Evolution has ensure that children are very self centred in order to survive. A lot learn this by the time they grow up. Some never do.

TBH you seem to have a Victorian attitude to children. Please untwist your antimacassars and stop ranting. ;-)

Reply to
Mark

Maybe I would feel differently if I was at home all day and for some odd reason there was 6 weeks of sunshine in the summer holidays.

As a kid I played in such places. No parents telling you what to do was a bonus.

I do accept that some people hate listening to kids screaming and shouting. I pointed out that it has never bothered me. If I had four kids then I would not let them scream and shout in the garden all day, every day. They would be told to go and play in the woods 500m away.

Reply to
ARWadsworth

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "ARWadsworth" saying something like:

I'm a great believer in the bin-bag-in-the-canal school of child management.

Reply to
Grimly Curmudgeon

Could "action" not simply be having a quite word with the parents, rather than getting all "official" as a first response? I am sure that attempting to involve the council etc without even first broaching the subject with them will result in pissing off the parents in short order.

Reply to
John Rumm

Thus spake TheScullster ( snipped-for-privacy@dropthespam.com) unto the assembled multitudes:

Years ago I knew someone who was being driven insane by the incessant bark-bark-barking of the next-door neighbour's dog. Then he hit upon an idea. He had an old-style open reel tape recorder. He constructed a tape loop on which he recorded, "WHEN THE TAPE ENDS, THE BARKING WILL STOP. YAP! YAP! YAP!". He connected it to his powerful hi-fi system, turned it up LOUD, set it going, then went out for the afternoon. The dog was never heard again, at least not from his neighbour's.

Reply to
A.Clews

Get real! Kids come in all sorts of shapes and sizes and personalities. Some of them are noisy and others are quiet. Even within the same family. I've got nine -- and I'm sure the youngest three make ten times as much noise as the oldest six!

But you belong to a totally-different generation and grew up in a radically-different social environment. There's no particular reason why what you did should be normative for today's kids.

Why don't you actually get to know the kids concerned? They're human beings, after all!

Reply to
John MacLeod

Get real! Kids come in all sorts of shapes and sizes and personalities. Some of them are noisy and others are quiet. Even within the same family. I've got nine -- and I'm sure the youngest three make ten times as much noise as the oldest six!

Have you been informed about what's causing them all?

Reply to
brass monkey

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