What time do you let your children out in the morning?

Almo

Caroline_a wrote: »

If he can play quietly without disturbing anyone I don't think that 6am is too early - its when you have kids screaming and shouting with noisy toys when it becomes a problem!, Why can't you just insist that if he is noisy then he comes in?

I think the problem with this is that if he has to come in for being noisy, for a lot of people it's already too late - they're awake. It would be for me.

thebaileys

My son is never up early so luckily not an issue, but I wouldn't let him play out before 10am on a weekend.

He loves his weekend lie in's and lounging in PJ's!

melancholly

jamesmorgan wrote: »

I wonder how many people who complain about children's noise before 9am have no qualms about having noisy barbecues after 9pm (long after young children have gone to bed). Anyway, the Noise Act 1996 gives councils authority to act on excessive night time noise. Night time is defined as being between 11pm and 7am. On this basis, 6am is definitely not OK, but anything after 7am would be deemed as day time noise - with no differentiation between 7am and any other time of day.

Well I would complain and have, in the past, asked people to be quiet..... I think anyone who feels the need to make lots of noise without considering their neighbours is an idiot, whether from kids playing, cars revving, lawns being mowed or noisy barbeques. I think it's completely unfair to suggest that the people on here complaining about kids are automatically the kind of selfish people who make lots of noise themselves. There's no evidence of that at all!

beautiful_ravens

jamesmorgan wrote: »

I wonder how many people who complain about children's noise before 9am have no qualms about having noisy barbecues after 9pm (long after young children have gone to bed). Anyway, the Noise Act 1996 gives councils authority to act on excessive night time noise. Night time is defined as being between 11pm and 7am. On this basis, 6am is definitely not OK, but anything after 7am would be deemed as day time noise - with no differentiation between 7am and any other time of day.

Oh, I didnt know that. Regardless though, 9am for me. Maybe its an old fashioned thing to do with 'office hours' but 9am I think is perfectly reasonable. I dont even have neighbours, but there are people across the road from me, and also I dont like to add to the noise my cockerel makes from 5am :eek:
My 'across the road' neighbours are truly good neighbours.

dizziblonde

I would be annoyed by kids playing at stupid o' clock in the morning, I would be annoyed at neighbours barbecuing at stupid o' clock in the evening - I'm non-discriminatory in getting irritated by inconsiderate plonkers.

Our neighbours are fab on either side of us (I already mentioned we agreed between us to have a later start time for DIY and noise and stuff cos his lad does nights) - the neighbours out the back are a flipping nightmare. 7am all summer in the garden - and it's football... with the associated commentary yelled out full blast and the ball banging against the fence at 2 minute intervals all day long... and the 10 minutely "can we have our ball back" yelled over the fence as well (they're about as good with their aim as the England team's penalty takers). And then on school days apparently getting ready for school requires mum screeching obscenities and idle threats for a good 45 minutes before they get out the door and gone.

And the other out-back neighbours installed garden lighting - that doesn't aim down onto the ground - but shines directly into our upstairs windows - my daughter's room and the bathroom - and it's blooming bright lights - it makes taking a poo in the middle of the night feel like you're doing one on the centre circle of Old Trafford under the floodlights!

midnight_express

Put the kids on the bbq - problem solved.

thatgirlsam

Mine go out (if they want to) when they get dressed which is usually after 9am at weekends/holidays. They aren't that noisy anyway, and I don't think that many people actually mind the noise of happy children.

However, if they start arguing and shouting at each other they have to come in immediatley. I don't think my neighbours want to listen to 2 children shouting poohead or whatever at each other.

cutestkids

My kids are both lazy in the mornings so they would not tend to want to be out before about 10.00 anyway.

I think as long as they are not being too noisy then anything from about 9.00 is OK.

I am lucky in that my neighbours either stay at home with kids themselves or are out at work all day so the kids playing out has never really been a problem for us.

HeatherintheHills

thatgirlsam wrote: »

Mine go out (if they want to) when they get dressed which is usually after 9am at weekends/holidays. They aren't that noisy anyway, and I don't think that many people actually mind the noise of happy children.

However, if they start arguing and shouting at each other they have to come in immediatley. I don't think my neighbours want to listen to 2 children shouting poohead or whatever at each other.

I can see what you are saying, but to be honest, if someone is desperate to catch up on sleep after a tough week then it really doesn't matter if it is happy or fighting children that wake them up.

My neighbours children are really pretty good, but are at their most annoying when they are playing "quietly" by kicking a football against the fence repeatedly. Hell, that constant, low level thud, thud, thud drives me really crazy.

Ellejmorgan

Not before 10 am but thats because in the hols I we have a lie in, I let the older ones stay up later..

Mine don't play out that much, we have a garden but it's not that big and is all paved over....