Kids Playing out till 11:30pm

peewee_44

Ok I know the kids are now on there Summer Holidays but I think playing out till 11:30 is just a joke.
I'll be honest I don't have to get up for work in the morning hense me posting at this time but I know all my neighbours are up early to be in work. My other neighbour and myself have toddlers that are in bed early enough. Not that I expect the kid to stop playing that early, its not their fault I have a child. But come 11:30pm shouting, screaming and kicking a ball against a steel ESB is just ignorant and poor parenting. Why can't people respect the people around them. I am almost praying for a wet Summer.

Ruu

Go and join them for a kick around!

shruikan2553

If you drive around in a white van and get people to share a warning on facebook about a larry murphy sighting in the area they might not be out as much.

Sir Arthur Daley

Irresponsible parenting is what it is.

Jake Rugby Walrus666

What was the situation at 11.40pm ?

fleet_admiral

Join them for a game of nick nacks. Kids dont play it enough nowadays

A Greedy Algorithm

Kids these days. Having fun on their summer holidays. Something has to be done about this.

Simi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRKv1wgcuLk

J_E

Oh dear, you're that guy in the neighbourhood who whinges, bet you're the favourite with the kids.

PLL

Thank you for this OP!! I am so with you.

cactuspaw

ok, my neighbours kids are still up. running round the house, screaming, shouting, up and down the stairs (my room is next to what must be theirs, so i can hear every move). I cant sleep, these kids have been out for ages....

peewee_44

I wouldn't mind if they were playing out all day (well I would lol) but there was nothing till 9:00pm then noise, I know I sound like a grump but Im not I know kids should be playing out and I agree kids don't play out nearly enough now but I think there is a time you have to start thinking of the people around you. Even if it was only sat night and you know 99% of people had the next day off

Hotfail.com

Is it every night or what? If it's only a once-off then I don't see what the problem is tbh...

Lucifer MorningStar

Quit being a MR Wilson OP

peewee_44

No if it was once I would just grin and bare it but this is every night even before they finished for the summer. I know I sound like it but I'm not an utter grump I was a kid playing out at summer once and I don't even mind or care about them playing out till 11:30 just don't kick a ball up against a steal door and stop screaming and yelling what happened to a good old game of Jacks lol

peewee_44

Who is Mr Wilson?

Hotfail.com

peewee_44 wrote: »

No if it was once I would just grin and bare it but this is every night even before they finished for the summer. I know I sound like it but I'm not an utter grump I was a kid playing out at summer once and I don't even mind or care about them playing out till 11:30 just don't kick a ball up against a steal door and stop screaming and yelling what happened to a good old game of Jacks lol

If you can't beat 'em join 'em.


Personally, I would beat them.

peewee_44

peewee_44 wrote: »

Ok I know the kids are now on there Summer Holidays but I think playing out till 11:30 is just a joke. I am almost praying for a wet Summer.

Oh no! Here comes grumpy old Mister PeeWee out with the scissors to puncture the kids plastic football!

I used to live on a cul-de-sac where some of the most mannerly, helpful, well behaved and courteous kids you could ever hope to meet were bullied and terrorised by one old witch who'd call the guards if she so much as heard a tennis ball bounce on the road outside her house. Meanwhile her own grandkids were some of the most unruly poisonous brats you could ever see. People even moved house because of them.

OP, I beg you! Don't become that old witch! The rest of the neighbours still laugh openly about her death.

jamo2oo9

11:30pm? Nothing wrong with that really. Let the kids have the fun. We all played outside till late during the summer holidays

Diabhal Beag

peewee_44 wrote: »

Who is Mr Wilson?

Like a more evil Ian Huntley

peewee_44

I don't mind them playing out till 11:30 as long as they keep the noise down and understand there are people around them that have early mornings and kiddies trying to sleep. I have seen them out till 11:30 on there scooters bikes etc and that doesn't bother me, not that I will ever let my child out that late but they are not the only ones in the estate. If they didn't make too much noise I wouldn't care if they were up all night.....

Ah to hell with it I will just change my name to victor Meldrew lol

peewee_44

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Like a more evil Ian Huntley

Oh no they might make me grumpy but I would never hurt them nor would I stand back and see them hurt I would however pucture their ball

SeantheMan

So they're out playing football and enjoying their Summer holidays ?
They're not drinking, vandalising or taking drugs or doing anything anti-social ....yet you still complain.

I was one of them kids, out till 11 or 12 on my Summer holidays playing football. Some of the best years of my life they were,fond memories.
I would rather see them out playing than stuck inside on a computer.

You unfortunately OP are what we referred to as a 'vigi'...although you haven't done anything to warrant that title yet.

You could always go out and ask politely, tell them you have a kid in bed and could they move it down the road please. That you don't mind them playing during the day...tell them to go mad for it during the day, you don't care, but once it goes past 10.30 if they could take it elsewhere.

They might be more understanding than what you'd believe.

They don't know they're annoying everyone if people don't speak up, and a person screaming out a window is MUCH less effective than an adult coming out in the pyjamas and asking politely to keep it down.

Speaking from experience as I was one of those teenagers.

LizzieJones

peewee_44 wrote: »

Who is Mr Wilson?

He is from Dennis the Menace.

No Pants

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Like a more evil Ian Huntley

A most misunderstood man. He just really hated Manchester United.

Lou.m

peewee_44 wrote: »

Ok I know the kids are now on there Summer Holidays but I think playing out till 11:30 is just a joke.
I'll be honest I don't have to get up for work in the morning hense me posting at this time but I know all my neighbours are up early to be in work. My other neighbour and myself have toddlers that are in bed early enough. Not that I expect the kid to stop playing that early, its not their fault I have a child. But come 11:30pm shouting, screaming and kicking a ball against a steel ESB is just ignorant and poor parenting. Why can't people respect the people around them. I am almost praying for a wet Summer.

I stay up way past my bed time too and there's no ones cans stop me!

kikidelvin

Is it not the law that between the hours of 23.00 and 07.00.people should keep noise down and not disturb the peace.Parents should be a bit more responsible and consider other people and not just themselves and their kids.

oldyouth

11.30 is too late. I would be more concerned about my child's safety out at that hour. Also, have many of these parents gone to bed and left their kids to their own devices?.

Not right in my opinion

Tokyo

Yep, rather than being outside with their friends getting exercise and fresh air, they should be indoors glued to the TV, x-box or facebook. That way we'd have nothing to complain about in AH..... :pac:

fr336

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Tail Docker

Jake Rugby Walrus666 wrote: »

What was the situation at 11.40pm ?

13-10 and next goal wins.

Lucifer MorningStar

LizzieJones wrote: »

He is from Dennis the Menace.

Walter Matthau looked an awful lot like Saddum Hussein :pac:

professore

I wish the miserable old retired **** next door wouldn't get up at 6:30 AM every Saturday morning and start mowing the lawn or talking loudly to his dog when we're still asleep after a hard week working. Why the **** doesn't he do it during the week?

EDIT: maybe you're him OP?

mrsbyrne

11.30 is ridiculous. Stupid inconsiderate parents.

Akrasia

In summer, the kids should only have to come inside when you can't tell if that slightly darker patch is a weed or your jumpers for goalposts.

That said, I lived in the countryside without the benefit of communal street lighting, so we had to go inside when it got dark.

I suggest that you climb the lamposts and unscrew the light bulbs

Let nature take it's course

ivytwine

How old are they OP? Under 10s shouldn't be up that late, summer holidays or not!

Neighbours kids are same, they're prob 8 and 5 and up every night playing until all hours. I think it is a bit irresponsible to be honest, I wouldn't have been allowed stay out that late. They keep losing their ball in our yard and torment us with the doorbell at all hours!

Conmaicne Mara

Herself used to live in an estate where the same craic went on every summer. The local ferals would run amok from noon to nightfall during Summer. Not an awful lot better where we are at the moment in terms of parenting skills as I've seen 10 & 11 year olds hanging around pub doors after 11.30. But, the house we now live in is located out of the village so we can actually come home and not have others intruding on our life.

It is bad parenting and it is inconsiderate to other people, one of many symptoms of a dysfunctional society.

RobbingBandit

Tell them you have a free PS4 for them in your shed,lock the little bastards in for a few hours instead, you can call it PeeWee's Playhouse.

c_man

You should introduce the kids to weed OP. They'll have no energy to stay out until that late hour.

hoodwinked

its the same here to be honest children as young as 3 and 4 and as old as 12 or more, out until 11pm or later unsupervised, parents on fb reposting those bloody annoying images on how "their children are their life" or "what a great parent they are", to care where their children are or what they are doing,

these same parents will be the ones asking in a few years "where did it all go wrong"

Caliden

Make loads of noise getting up at 7am so you're loud enough to wake them up.

The kids' parent either have to be on holidays themselves or have no reason to be up early

anncoates

1130 is too late for young kids to be out even in summer. Presumably they're teenagers..

That said, you must have supersonic hearing if the sound of kids playing outside bothers you that much.

AH is becoming a bit like that Points of View programme when i was a kid: a platform for Outraged Of Tumbridge Wells weirdos and the splenetic nonsense they can't vent elsewhere

folan

anncoates wrote: »

1130 is too late for young kids to be out even in summer.

depends on what time they got up at?

nelly17

peewee_44 wrote: »

I don't mind them playing out till 11:30 as long as they keep the noise down and understand there are people around them that have early mornings and kiddies trying to sleep. I have seen them out till 11:30 on there scooters bikes etc and that doesn't bother me, not that I will ever let my child out that late but they are not the only ones in the estate. If they didn't make too much noise I wouldn't care if they were up all night.....

Ah to hell with it I will just change my name to victor Meldrew lol

There Kids they dont understand that, have you tried having a word with the parents or would that start some kind of Civil War on the street

Conmaicne Mara

anncoates wrote: »

1130 is too late for young kids to be out even in summer. Presumably they're teenagers..

Don't know the age of the OP's neighbours kids, but the ones in the estate I mentioned were mostly 5-10 year olds.

I reckon a lot were left in bed half the day, that's not good parenting IMO. Have them up early with the parents, then they'll get the use of the day and can go to bed at a reasonable time.

But, it's not about bed, it's about having them show some respect for the place they live in and the other people who also live there. Have them in off the street at a reasonable hour and leave the evening wind down with a bit of quiet.

nelly17

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Don't know the age of the OP's neighbours kids, but the ones in the estate I mentioned were mostly 5-10 year olds.

I reckon a lot were left in bed half the day, that's not good parenting IMO. Have them up early with the parents, then they'll get the use of the day and can go to bed at a reasonable time.

But, it's not about bed, it's about having them show some respect for the place they live in and the other people who also live there. Have them in off the street at a reasonable hour and leave the evening wind down with a bit of quiet.

it suits the Parents on my road too leave the kids in bed half the morning so they can stay in bed half the morning - hence the kids are out till all hours

hoodwinked

anncoates wrote: »

That said, you must have supersonic hearing if the sound of kids playing outside bothers you that much.

not if you live in one of the new estates where they have communal gardens or a ground floor apartment, so the kids outside could be sitting literally on your bedroom window sill,

No Pants

Caliden wrote: »

The kids' parent either have to be on holidays themselves or have no reason to be up early

Sounds like they might be on an extended holiday from working for a living.

nelly17

No Pants wrote: »

Sounds like they might be on an extended holiday from working for a living.

Yep thats the way it is on my road

No Pants

nelly17 wrote: »

Yep thats the way it is on my road

If I was the OP, I think my lawn would need cutting at 07:01 on a Monday morning.

Teyla Emmagan

I nearly had a mental breakdown one summer from the neighbours' kids doing this. They were kicked out the door from 10am to 10pm every day. Never brought anywhere, no activities organised, just outside on the road all summer. Bored and destructive. It was all fights and screaming and beating the head off each other all day long and breaking everything that wasn't solid steel. I would actually stay in work late to avoid going home, I have no front garden and it felt like they were screaming 2 feet away from me. 4 or 5 hours of that in the evening is actually really stressful. Not that the parents gave a sh*te.