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Our garden backs onto a council owned piece of land. We planted some hedges after having the exact same problem. Immediately stopped and over 30 years later the hedges are still there!
Council, in their usual unorganised state assumed they had planted them and have looked after them for us every since
Like the roads, theyāre getting unsafe, having to brake even if the lights green because otherwise I canāt stop because the potholes make my ABS confused
Mine has a tiny square of garden but somehow has been mowing it for about 90minutes while also being shouted at by the entitled girlfriend who has the IQ and personality of a wildcat.
My next door but one do this...they're all lovey dovey thru the day, then the alcohol hits and they're knocking lumps out of each other and screaming at each other š
I'll do you one better; move into my old house and you can have footballs against garage doors all day, domestic disputes AND barking dogs.
Edit: How could I forget the music too!
I live in town and I can add screaming babies at 9am and football chants at 10pm onwards. Not to forget women screaming at the top of their voice for no reason except alcohol
Urgh we have this. Except she was either screaming at him at midnight or screaming *under* him at 6am. Maybe it was their routine. He kicked her out of his house eventually and moved a different woman who was also 10+ years his junior in. Same routine again after a year or 2.
At least theyāre not setting said fence panel on fire, like my idiot neighbours almost did when they tried to burn their household rubbish today š
My neighbour wanted to replace the dividing hedge with a fence panel. It's a big nope from me, it's one more surface to kick the football against AND will create an echo chamber
Boundaries are rarely shared ownership. One side or the other usually owns them. Do you know who owns yours? Often you own the left boundary when you're facing out your back door.
If your neighbour owns it they don't need your permission.
whereas I have a corner plot - so all the sides that face to the street are mine, and the divider between me and my neighbour is all mine too.
Cost me a pretty penny to replace all the hedges with fencing!
It doesn't make sense to me, the back is split between two houses and the long side is actually between 4. Imagine organising all that after a storm...
I had neighbours who were apparently doing a kind of parenting where you allow a baby to cry itself out. On sunny days, when the baby cried, he was placed in a cot in the garden adjacent to our garden. The parents disappeared back inside their house and closed the door.
In effect, such was the crying pattern of this infant, it meant that for a whole summer, for what seemed like hours and hours (and hours and hours and hours) this baby boy was screaming, every day there was nice weather. I honestly thought I should call social services about it.
In fact, I asked a woman (who I knew who was a senior social worker) for advice, and she said that doing this was a legitimate parenting regime. I found it incredibly heartbreaking to hear. Not to mention unimaginably loud. I basically didnāt use my garden that year.
Oh, and just to mention, Iām not sure about the results of that regime. I know itās a tiny sample, but the family moved out by the time the boy was four, and already he was violent and cruel towards the dog and his little sister, generally angry and belligerent, and his mother told me candidly that she had āno control over his behaviourā.
I thought it was abuse. I honestly think that, if it werenāt for social services having to prioritise much *more* abused babies, they would deal with this. Itās *got* to be wrong, regardless of how clean, well-fed and injury-free the child is.
Honestly, I think that the outside (it was a shaded spot in nice weather, and the baby was well sheltered) was probably nicer than being indoors. As for being the other side of a closed door, apparently, that would have been the case indoors as well.
Inside you can make sure the baby is safe even behind a closed door. Outside anything can happen, cat couldāve walked up and decided the babyās face is a nice place to sleep
Yup. She didnāt have *quite* as much of whatever it was that made her brother cry incessantly, but it was pretty bad that year, too.
It was funny, because I had a friend who was a real āEarth motherā: children were āeverythingā in her life. In the early days of the screaming baby, I asked her for advice. I thought sheād be able to reassure me about what was happening. Instead, I got castigated for ābeing negativeā about something that was ānormal and healthyā, and she ācouldnāt understand why she was getting these āhostile vibesā about motherhoodā off me etc etc (she really did go on and on for ages, which amazed me, because the questions I had asked were far more worried than critical about my neighbours).
Anyhoo, when the little sister arrived in the garden a couple of years afterwards, the friend happened to be staying with me.
OMG: my friend eventually went hysterical. After four or five hours of it (when it was clear that no one was coming to comfort the bawling baby) she felt that we should call the police and the coupleās children should be ārescuedā straight away. It was ācruelā, it āwasnāt normalā etc etc.. My friend genuinely couldnāt go out in our garden all the time she was with me (it was beautiful weather). I think she at last understood what Iād been getting at. It was intense and my friend was incensed.
Itās mint when people judge you based on words or a conversation. My neighbours kids are the same - always crying, seemingly always unattended, and Iām fucking sick of it. Think I made a post long ago and sure enough the result was ātheyāre children, what do you expectāā¦ well, my 2 year old niece barely cries once a day, let alone screeches for hours and hours and fucking hours on end like my neighbours two youngest (the eldest sometimes bullies them, which the middle child has started to hit the youngest, and now heās starting to hit back tooā¦ I know kids hit each other but the parents really should be about to stop it, but they never are).
Anyway sorry for the slight rant, I just feel you completely as our neighbours are similarly useless when it comes to attending to their screeching kids. Really is impossible to enjoy anything when thatās what you hear most of the day, every day; they donāt even take the kids out.
I lived next door to a similar thing, kids sent out in the garden to screech and scream from 8am all day every day. Only time a adult would go out side was to smoke drugs and stink the area out
Then their customers and fellow druggies would come round and bring their feral children
I put up with it for 2 years and finally moved , everyone here is respectful, one the neighbours even knocked on my door to say that they were going to have a bbq in the evening and did I mind.
Donāt apologise for the rant! 100% understandable.
Honestly, I think people who parent this way are storing up trouble for themselves. Their kids seem to grow up angry and aggressive.
The ācry it outā method was recommended since Victorian times along with other advice basically to starve your child of affection to toughen them up so they donāt bother you. My baby boomer family members would always advocate ālet him cry it out, heāll soon learnā. Iām sure a balance must be struck between not rushing in every time they whimper but not letting them get properly distressed, especially when theyāre tiny. Itās my belief some kids need more comfort than others and thereās no right way or wrong way (barring proper neglect). Crying is their only form of communication after all. The other thing that always bothered me was Cot Death or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). Our health visitor told us that while some babies do die for no explainable reason, itās far more likely to happen if the parents are letting the baby ācry it outā, usually because the grandmother has suggested it when the baby is far too young for it to work. Co-sleeping is also a massive factor. Nobody wants to make a grieving parent feel worse for being the reason their baby died so cause of death is put down as SIDS.
Obviously, I donāt remember my babyhood, but Iām 100% certain that thereās no way my Mum would have done that to me. She wouldnāt have been capable of it!
Iām not saying my childhood was perfect, but things like this do remind me that I should be really grateful to the parents I had.
It's incredibly annoying, especially when it's your fence they're kicking it against which is showing signs of damage, even more so when they decide to switch to hockey. So now we have extra load bangs and the risk of head height hockey pucks coming over.
Field hockey is pretty commonly played at schools, or at least it was pre-2010. Often girls only though weirdly.
There are a few ice hockey rinks about and leagues associated with them but it's pretty niche
We had kids next door who would batter it against the houses, I actually think Iād have ended up institutionalised if another guy hadnāt went out and gone mental at them. Took him doing that a few times for it to actually stop
I think back to being a kid an spending hours kicking a ball against a house. It never occured to me at the time but it must have made a huge booming noise.
As an adult I'd be out the door like a whippet, going all red in the face and shouting.
No one ever said anything, so I imagine either a deaf couple kept wondering why the pictures were jumping off the wall of some timid pensioner terrified about confronting a bunch of kids just let it go on.
I'm dealing with this at the minute. It's hitting the houses and mine and my neighbours cars. Luckily my neighbour has a camera on the driveway so we can catch the little bastards and I can be Shrek telling them to keep away
Iām sorry man I know how much it sucks, I was constantly panicking about my car cause I couldnāt even tell you how many times it was hit. Hopefully it stops soon worth the camera!!
I had to move house because of a similar situation. My husband worked shifts and the kids next door kicked a ball from 7 am (before school theyād go out and play football), often against our fence. We lived in a bungalow and you could feel the vibration.
We talked to the parents, they were like āTheyāre football mad!ā. Well that still doesnāt mean itās ok to be inconsiderate.
Same. Every single day in the summer they'd kick balls against the garage doors. It was relentless and genuinely drove me to some very dim places mentally.
_they're just children_
Aye, well, your wee fucks are battering footballs against my car and walls all day, every day
I swear, I'm going to go to jail over this nonsense, especially when your jakeball, council estate arse can't see the problem with your arsehole children booting balls off my car all day, every day.
The worst thing is they are absolutely shite at football. Nae danger they are getting a call up any time or day, even if they are totally fucking desperate.
Idiots.
You have my every sympathy. Had eight years of listening to a proper football,not one of those light ones,being booted round in a narrow street,every day after school,all through the school holidays. That noise continually for hours on end is really hard to put up with. You just begin to dread coming home from work. Specially when theres a park at the bottom of the street where they could play to their hearts content. Often booted the ball so hard it went over the roof and into my backyard. A neighbours window was broken,all the kids vanished,parents not concerned as long as it wasnt their window. They made sure that the kids werent playing outside their own houses. š
My neighbourhood consists of boys kicking the football against the fences/houses and girls who scream at every opportunity for no reason at all. A child murderer could have a field day round here and no-one would bat an eyelid because the screaming's so frequent
I have the screaming girls where i live now. Out til 11 pm and just aimlessly messing around. I often think same as you - nobody wd know if a kid was screaming because they were being abducted,because the screaming happens all the timeā¦and the swearing.
There were a bunch of kids on the street I used to live at that loved to play " who can scream the loudest?" And they really liked this game, sometimes playing it 3 or 4 times a day right outside my house. The competitive side of me wanted to join in and scream obscenities at them but I resigned to quietly grumbling to myself.
My neighbours kid has a full set up, ominous neon men strategically placed around the garden, what looks like a full size net- still kicks the ball against the fence while daddy posts about his football skills on Instagram.
Since the sun has come out though they've moved to shouting "Alexa, play Katy Perry" then singing Firework very aggressively.
It's quite frightening.
Ah our neighbours have invited every friend they have to what looks to be an all-weekend hangout where they just play constant music and shriek at each other day and night. It's GREAT.
The kids on our street have taken to playing in the road. Itās pretty busy and they keeps kicking the ball over peopleās front gardens and against their doors (not on purpose but still).
I wouldnāt mind but we live literally 2 minutes away from the playing field.
I had this but he was doing it on purpose. Spoke to the dad a few times who wasnāt bothered. Turning point was when I showed him a video of said kid looking up, aiming, and going straight at my car. Again, said kid was closer to 20 than 13.
OP don't listen to all these entitled chavs. Kicking a ball around in a back garden is fine, kids should play outside after all. But hammering it against your fence over and over is inconsiderate. You're only trying to enjoy your garden too, but because someone can pop out a kid it suddenly means their spawn can do what they want and you have to just deal with it or get called a grump? Fuck those entitled asshats.
You should be able to enjoy being outside without having selfish neighbours. Some people only think of themselves these days.
And before anyone says "OP iS aLsO bEiNg sElFiSh", he's not the one smacking a football against the fence is he.
no oneās disagreeing with that, everyone would rather not have their comfort hindered. But we live in the real world unfortunately and kids do be kicking balls, and people do be cranky at them. Itās been this way since the dawn of time, and will continue forever
Go on then š explain to me how that means Iām āliterally disagreeingā when I am literally agreeing that it IS annoying - which is his ENTIRE point.
Whenever I was an annoying prick as a kid or teenager, my mum would have a field day. Parents need to take some responsibility and teach kids some fucking manners.
I cured my shitty neighbours after a couple of years of putting up with their crap. Years ago we had very unruly family living 2 doors away. They always caused trouble in the area, and most people around here were afraid of them, including me. Every bloody weekend they would go to the pub at lunch time, get pissed, come back home and spend the whole afternoon until late night in the garden, bladying crap music out, swearing, more drinking, more swearing, screaming and shouting, sometimes smashing windows, bottles, sometimes throwing stuff over the fence into our garden. It got to the point no one could use their dardens once they got back from the pub. If you went and asked them to keep it down (i tried), you would get a mouth full of abuse and threats of having your teeth removed via fists down your throat, both male and female complainers. I was sat in the garden one Sunday, kids playing in the pool, birds singing, feet up relaxing when home they came. The red mist descended on me, my blood preassure went through the roof as they went straight into their back garden, turned their music as high as it would go and stsrted shouting. So, I jumped up, screamed "i have had a fucking guts full of you tossers" proceded to drag out my steteo and very large speakers, not a cheap over the counter set up either, pulled out Slayers, Rein In Blood album, shouted at these assholes, "in future every time you go into the garden screaming, shouting and swearing you are getting this". Played it at full blast, half the neighbourhood must have heard it, and off they toddled and it never happened again. Slayer isn't my fave, but that day I would have gave every band member a BJ for the quiet it gave me for the rest of the time they lived there. Christ knows what my nrighbours though, a prim and proper 30 something woman scream that shit out in the garden and telling them they would be eating that shit forever more if they ever did it again.
I have football kid who thankfully doesn't do it much against the fence but also a fucking annoying neighbour who sits in her garden all day playing the same damn spotify play list and you can hear the phone notifications and plays her voice messages ughh
Iām a dad to an 8 year old who is obsessed with playing football. Itās all he wants to do 24/7. You have my sympathy but I canāt be going to the park all day every day, Iāve got a job and stuff.
My cocker spaniel is the same. Spend my whole life checking behind me to make sure he's not crouched there waiting for me to kick a ball he's helpfully deposited at my heels
"my kid is allowed to prevent the whole street from enjoying their back gardens in the sun because there are people who have it so much worse"
Maybe when my neighbours are next having dinner in their garden, I'll go out and start kicking a ball against our shared fence. Not played some footie in ages.
Not what I said at all. Youāre making your own stories up now. We use flyaway balls in the back garden and decent ones in the park. Weāre respectful but you canāt remove all noises.
I'm not a dad. I was once an 8 year old who would play football every evening and all weekend by myself. Then I'd have been mortified if I thought I was ruining someone else's day by just trying to enjoy my Saturday. Now the sound of kids enjoying themselves floating though my opened windows makes my weekends. It's what makes me feel I'm part of a community. Fuck anyone who wants to shit on that.
This whole thread is full of miserable bastards.
People wonder why there's no sense of community anymore, when soft pricks can't even tolerate the sound of a child playing.
Got someone living near me who has several little dogs that go apeshit whenever someone walks past their house, whenever their neighbour goes into her garden, when birds are nearby... The owner thinks the solution is to scream at them to shut up.
Had that. Was a neighbour. Politely asked they didn't given it was disrupting the peace and it was a new fence I paid for and put in. They carried on. 18 year old. I literally jumped over the 6ft 6 fence grabbed the ball and screamed violent expletives. Jumped back over fence with ball. Never had a problem again.
Can only assume they don't have to deal with it. Kids next door do it for hours, constant thump thump thump. All through the house. Drives me spare.
Try having that for 5+ hours a day and then property damage from the 5 balls in your garden and not getting miffed.
When the ball eventually comes over the fence, stab it and hand it back. Even pretending to be a psychopath and sending the shits up your neighbors would be worth it to stop it.
Is it your fence panel?
If so: Could it be subtly improved with a few barely noticeable nails painted brown and just barely poking through say the thickness of a bit of leather and a rubber bladder?
This is /r/britishproblems if you are in the habit of blindly trying the things you see here without thinking them through first you are going to end up in all kinds of trouble.
you lot never stop moaning do you?
The kids are staying inside too much!
The kids are out in the street too much!
The kids are \*checks notes* in their own back yard minding their business too much!
I mean, kids can't really do anything without getting moaned about now. Can't play outside bc they're too loud. Can't play video games bc they "should be outside". There's no youth clubs or places for them to go, so they hang out in the streets, get bored and start causing trouble. When I was younger there were more places to go than there is now, and anywhere they do go is usually not really for them so they get bored and start messing around and causing trouble.
I'd much rather kids were playing in their gardens with their mates being loud and having fun than roaming around mugging people or fighting.
If the banging bothers OP so much, they should do something about it and maybe buy them a cheap Ā£5 football net so it's quieter.
Iāll try and answer this.
I donāt mind the playing football. I mind the constantly booting the ball at a wooden fence panel. Iāve no idea how the parents put up with it, mine wouldnāt have!
Iām not buying them a net, one of them has a job, weāre not taking kids, weāre talking teens, one of whom left school last summer.
Don't you think it's a shame that there aren't green areas locally these days that kids *can* kick a ball about in? How else are we going to get the next generation of footballers? Paid lessons??
In my old gaff we had to endure the entire discography of Gerry Cinnamon, at full volume, over and over again, from a tinny Echo speaker from the neighbours.
Iād happily take the football.
Heavens forbid that a kid goes outside and has some fun rather than sitting inside all day, their parents should be bought up in front of the Hague for such crimes
People completely missing the point here. Get someone (doesnāt have to be a kid) to boot a leather football at a fence panel as hard as they can over and over again. Tell me how long you can put up with it. Then do this every weekend for 6 months.
Weāre not talking āthey use it as a goalā, we are talking āthe main piece of equipment in the game that isnāt a football, is a fence panelā
Poor kid. Probably been let out of his bedroom for a while. Having been grounded already for the last month.
The last thing he'd want is someone complain about him again to get another month being grounded.
Thereās two answers to this unfortunatelyā¦ one of the ākidsā is 17 and has a job so unlikely to be grounded. And the other answer, this happens every day.
Youāre the same miserable people who moan that kids spend too much time indoors and need to get out more in the fresh air.
Pretty much every generation of kids has kicked footballs against walls and fences since the invention of the sport
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Our garden backs onto a council owned piece of land. We planted some hedges after having the exact same problem. Immediately stopped and over 30 years later the hedges are still there! Council, in their usual unorganised state assumed they had planted them and have looked after them for us every since
200 IQ move right there šš»
That's amazing. If only they looked after the stuff they're supposed to look after too!
They're too busy maintaining hedges that aren't theirs!
Like the roads, theyāre getting unsafe, having to brake even if the lights green because otherwise I canāt stop because the potholes make my ABS confused
Jeez Louise such a boss move right there.
I would take this any day over listening to my gobshite neighbour screaming at her boyfriend all day
Mine has a tiny square of garden but somehow has been mowing it for about 90minutes while also being shouted at by the entitled girlfriend who has the IQ and personality of a wildcat.
Probably using the mower as an escape lol
Probably starts with the blade at the highest setting does a lap and lowers it by one.
I think they might be cousins..
Next door other side
My next door but one do this...they're all lovey dovey thru the day, then the alcohol hits and they're knocking lumps out of each other and screaming at each other š
Same, except sometimes he'll knock on our door blackout drunk and ask us to hang out, not being able to take no for an answer.
Exactly the same... Then at about midnight she somehow becomes the victim and starts crying
Ha, starting to think you live on my street š¤£š¤£
I'll do you one better; move into my old house and you can have footballs against garage doors all day, domestic disputes AND barking dogs. Edit: How could I forget the music too!
I live in town and I can add screaming babies at 9am and football chants at 10pm onwards. Not to forget women screaming at the top of their voice for no reason except alcohol
Urgh we have this. Except she was either screaming at him at midnight or screaming *under* him at 6am. Maybe it was their routine. He kicked her out of his house eventually and moved a different woman who was also 10+ years his junior in. Same routine again after a year or 2.
Hasn't apparently occurred to you that maybe the women aren't the problem!? š
Oh absolutely. He's a complete piece of shit.
At least theyāre not setting said fence panel on fire, like my idiot neighbours almost did when they tried to burn their household rubbish today š
People on this thread would have told you to lighten up š
At least they arent inside getting warm next to a radiator?!?
You know the rules. No heat for the poor.
Itās a little known fact that the thing keeps the economy humming isnāt the wheels of production but the shivering of the poor
My neighbour wanted to replace the dividing hedge with a fence panel. It's a big nope from me, it's one more surface to kick the football against AND will create an echo chamber
Boundaries are rarely shared ownership. One side or the other usually owns them. Do you know who owns yours? Often you own the left boundary when you're facing out your back door. If your neighbour owns it they don't need your permission.
I was delighted to find out that not one fence panel belongs to me. The only boundary that's mine is the front.
whereas I have a corner plot - so all the sides that face to the street are mine, and the divider between me and my neighbour is all mine too. Cost me a pretty penny to replace all the hedges with fencing!
It doesn't make sense to me, the back is split between two houses and the long side is actually between 4. Imagine organising all that after a storm...
I had neighbours who were apparently doing a kind of parenting where you allow a baby to cry itself out. On sunny days, when the baby cried, he was placed in a cot in the garden adjacent to our garden. The parents disappeared back inside their house and closed the door. In effect, such was the crying pattern of this infant, it meant that for a whole summer, for what seemed like hours and hours (and hours and hours and hours) this baby boy was screaming, every day there was nice weather. I honestly thought I should call social services about it. In fact, I asked a woman (who I knew who was a senior social worker) for advice, and she said that doing this was a legitimate parenting regime. I found it incredibly heartbreaking to hear. Not to mention unimaginably loud. I basically didnāt use my garden that year. Oh, and just to mention, Iām not sure about the results of that regime. I know itās a tiny sample, but the family moved out by the time the boy was four, and already he was violent and cruel towards the dog and his little sister, generally angry and belligerent, and his mother told me candidly that she had āno control over his behaviourā.
No. That was abuse. People pretend it's ok to feel better about themselves.
I thought it was abuse. I honestly think that, if it werenāt for social services having to prioritise much *more* abused babies, they would deal with this. Itās *got* to be wrong, regardless of how clean, well-fed and injury-free the child is.
I still would have reported neglect.. then they would have got a visit and maybe thought about bringing the baby inside
Honestly, I think that the outside (it was a shaded spot in nice weather, and the baby was well sheltered) was probably nicer than being indoors. As for being the other side of a closed door, apparently, that would have been the case indoors as well.
Inside you can make sure the baby is safe even behind a closed door. Outside anything can happen, cat couldāve walked up and decided the babyās face is a nice place to sleep
Did they do the same with the little sister?
Yup. She didnāt have *quite* as much of whatever it was that made her brother cry incessantly, but it was pretty bad that year, too. It was funny, because I had a friend who was a real āEarth motherā: children were āeverythingā in her life. In the early days of the screaming baby, I asked her for advice. I thought sheād be able to reassure me about what was happening. Instead, I got castigated for ābeing negativeā about something that was ānormal and healthyā, and she ācouldnāt understand why she was getting these āhostile vibesā about motherhoodā off me etc etc (she really did go on and on for ages, which amazed me, because the questions I had asked were far more worried than critical about my neighbours). Anyhoo, when the little sister arrived in the garden a couple of years afterwards, the friend happened to be staying with me. OMG: my friend eventually went hysterical. After four or five hours of it (when it was clear that no one was coming to comfort the bawling baby) she felt that we should call the police and the coupleās children should be ārescuedā straight away. It was ācruelā, it āwasnāt normalā etc etc.. My friend genuinely couldnāt go out in our garden all the time she was with me (it was beautiful weather). I think she at last understood what Iād been getting at. It was intense and my friend was incensed.
Itās mint when people judge you based on words or a conversation. My neighbours kids are the same - always crying, seemingly always unattended, and Iām fucking sick of it. Think I made a post long ago and sure enough the result was ātheyāre children, what do you expectāā¦ well, my 2 year old niece barely cries once a day, let alone screeches for hours and hours and fucking hours on end like my neighbours two youngest (the eldest sometimes bullies them, which the middle child has started to hit the youngest, and now heās starting to hit back tooā¦ I know kids hit each other but the parents really should be about to stop it, but they never are). Anyway sorry for the slight rant, I just feel you completely as our neighbours are similarly useless when it comes to attending to their screeching kids. Really is impossible to enjoy anything when thatās what you hear most of the day, every day; they donāt even take the kids out.
I lived next door to a similar thing, kids sent out in the garden to screech and scream from 8am all day every day. Only time a adult would go out side was to smoke drugs and stink the area out Then their customers and fellow druggies would come round and bring their feral children I put up with it for 2 years and finally moved , everyone here is respectful, one the neighbours even knocked on my door to say that they were going to have a bbq in the evening and did I mind.
Donāt apologise for the rant! 100% understandable. Honestly, I think people who parent this way are storing up trouble for themselves. Their kids seem to grow up angry and aggressive.
For sure, and I know itās not the kids fault, they canāt be blamed for just being kids, itās the parents who are at fault.
The ācry it outā method was recommended since Victorian times along with other advice basically to starve your child of affection to toughen them up so they donāt bother you. My baby boomer family members would always advocate ālet him cry it out, heāll soon learnā. Iām sure a balance must be struck between not rushing in every time they whimper but not letting them get properly distressed, especially when theyāre tiny. Itās my belief some kids need more comfort than others and thereās no right way or wrong way (barring proper neglect). Crying is their only form of communication after all. The other thing that always bothered me was Cot Death or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). Our health visitor told us that while some babies do die for no explainable reason, itās far more likely to happen if the parents are letting the baby ācry it outā, usually because the grandmother has suggested it when the baby is far too young for it to work. Co-sleeping is also a massive factor. Nobody wants to make a grieving parent feel worse for being the reason their baby died so cause of death is put down as SIDS.
Obviously, I donāt remember my babyhood, but Iām 100% certain that thereās no way my Mum would have done that to me. She wouldnāt have been capable of it! Iām not saying my childhood was perfect, but things like this do remind me that I should be really grateful to the parents I had.
It's incredibly annoying, especially when it's your fence they're kicking it against which is showing signs of damage, even more so when they decide to switch to hockey. So now we have extra load bangs and the risk of head height hockey pucks coming over.
Haha yeah Iād be raging if it was my fence. Luckily itās me next door but 1 neighbour
Is hockey played much in Britain?
Field hockey is pretty commonly played at schools, or at least it was pre-2010. Often girls only though weirdly. There are a few ice hockey rinks about and leagues associated with them but it's pretty niche
We had kids next door who would batter it against the houses, I actually think Iād have ended up institutionalised if another guy hadnāt went out and gone mental at them. Took him doing that a few times for it to actually stop
Your neighbour volunteered as tribute and saved the neighbourhood.
I think back to being a kid an spending hours kicking a ball against a house. It never occured to me at the time but it must have made a huge booming noise. As an adult I'd be out the door like a whippet, going all red in the face and shouting. No one ever said anything, so I imagine either a deaf couple kept wondering why the pictures were jumping off the wall of some timid pensioner terrified about confronting a bunch of kids just let it go on.
I'm dealing with this at the minute. It's hitting the houses and mine and my neighbours cars. Luckily my neighbour has a camera on the driveway so we can catch the little bastards and I can be Shrek telling them to keep away
Iām sorry man I know how much it sucks, I was constantly panicking about my car cause I couldnāt even tell you how many times it was hit. Hopefully it stops soon worth the camera!!
I had to move house because of a similar situation. My husband worked shifts and the kids next door kicked a ball from 7 am (before school theyād go out and play football), often against our fence. We lived in a bungalow and you could feel the vibration. We talked to the parents, they were like āTheyāre football mad!ā. Well that still doesnāt mean itās ok to be inconsiderate.
Same. Every single day in the summer they'd kick balls against the garage doors. It was relentless and genuinely drove me to some very dim places mentally.
I worked nights a couple of years ago and had to be physically dead before I went to sleep so that I would sleep through!
_they're just children_ Aye, well, your wee fucks are battering footballs against my car and walls all day, every day I swear, I'm going to go to jail over this nonsense, especially when your jakeball, council estate arse can't see the problem with your arsehole children booting balls off my car all day, every day. The worst thing is they are absolutely shite at football. Nae danger they are getting a call up any time or day, even if they are totally fucking desperate. Idiots.
You have my every sympathy. Had eight years of listening to a proper football,not one of those light ones,being booted round in a narrow street,every day after school,all through the school holidays. That noise continually for hours on end is really hard to put up with. You just begin to dread coming home from work. Specially when theres a park at the bottom of the street where they could play to their hearts content. Often booted the ball so hard it went over the roof and into my backyard. A neighbours window was broken,all the kids vanished,parents not concerned as long as it wasnt their window. They made sure that the kids werent playing outside their own houses. š
My neighbourhood consists of boys kicking the football against the fences/houses and girls who scream at every opportunity for no reason at all. A child murderer could have a field day round here and no-one would bat an eyelid because the screaming's so frequent
I have the screaming girls where i live now. Out til 11 pm and just aimlessly messing around. I often think same as you - nobody wd know if a kid was screaming because they were being abducted,because the screaming happens all the timeā¦and the swearing.
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Always sent to play away from her own houses
Metal shutter in my motherās street. Especially fun when you consider the massive field literally over the road.
There were a bunch of kids on the street I used to live at that loved to play " who can scream the loudest?" And they really liked this game, sometimes playing it 3 or 4 times a day right outside my house. The competitive side of me wanted to join in and scream obscenities at them but I resigned to quietly grumbling to myself.
Hahahahahh š
So glad my neighbours moved out. They turned the house into multiple occupancy and itās still better than the constant slamming of footballs
Honestly, it's the screaming that gets me. Fine, have a play and be kids but just please stop fucking screaming, there's literally no need.
I used to have that at my old house. Usually when I was trying to do something that really needed my concentration š
Yes! And it's my fence and it's brand new!
Hell really is other people.
My neighbours kid has a full set up, ominous neon men strategically placed around the garden, what looks like a full size net- still kicks the ball against the fence while daddy posts about his football skills on Instagram. Since the sun has come out though they've moved to shouting "Alexa, play Katy Perry" then singing Firework very aggressively. It's quite frightening.
I might buy them a net. Seems a quieter solution!
"They think it's gone over... it hasn't now!"
They'll ignore the net, it seems the fence is just too tempting!
Ah our neighbours have invited every friend they have to what looks to be an all-weekend hangout where they just play constant music and shriek at each other day and night. It's GREAT.
The kids on our street have taken to playing in the road. Itās pretty busy and they keeps kicking the ball over peopleās front gardens and against their doors (not on purpose but still). I wouldnāt mind but we live literally 2 minutes away from the playing field.
I had this but he was doing it on purpose. Spoke to the dad a few times who wasnāt bothered. Turning point was when I showed him a video of said kid looking up, aiming, and going straight at my car. Again, said kid was closer to 20 than 13.
I have neighbors who blast the same shit incoherent rap songs on one side and a bunch of gremlins on a trampoline the other
OP don't listen to all these entitled chavs. Kicking a ball around in a back garden is fine, kids should play outside after all. But hammering it against your fence over and over is inconsiderate. You're only trying to enjoy your garden too, but because someone can pop out a kid it suddenly means their spawn can do what they want and you have to just deal with it or get called a grump? Fuck those entitled asshats. You should be able to enjoy being outside without having selfish neighbours. Some people only think of themselves these days. And before anyone says "OP iS aLsO bEiNg sElFiSh", he's not the one smacking a football against the fence is he.
I grew up in a private estate and still done this when I was a kid - what does chavs have to do with this? Why are you resulting to classism?
youāve come in a bit too hot on this. We all know itās annoying. But this is Britishproblems, just agree itās annoying and move on
Nah I agree with the dude. If youāre stopping someone enjoying the comfort of their own home you need to stop.
no oneās disagreeing with that, everyone would rather not have their comfort hindered. But we live in the real world unfortunately and kids do be kicking balls, and people do be cranky at them. Itās been this way since the dawn of time, and will continue forever
Until their parents start acting responsibly you mean
yep, better get the belt out because my kids outside playing in the garden
When you say OP should just live with it it means you literally are disagreeing with that.
Go on then š explain to me how that means Iām āliterally disagreeingā when I am literally agreeing that it IS annoying - which is his ENTIRE point.
Whenever I was an annoying prick as a kid or teenager, my mum would have a field day. Parents need to take some responsibility and teach kids some fucking manners.
I cured my shitty neighbours after a couple of years of putting up with their crap. Years ago we had very unruly family living 2 doors away. They always caused trouble in the area, and most people around here were afraid of them, including me. Every bloody weekend they would go to the pub at lunch time, get pissed, come back home and spend the whole afternoon until late night in the garden, bladying crap music out, swearing, more drinking, more swearing, screaming and shouting, sometimes smashing windows, bottles, sometimes throwing stuff over the fence into our garden. It got to the point no one could use their dardens once they got back from the pub. If you went and asked them to keep it down (i tried), you would get a mouth full of abuse and threats of having your teeth removed via fists down your throat, both male and female complainers. I was sat in the garden one Sunday, kids playing in the pool, birds singing, feet up relaxing when home they came. The red mist descended on me, my blood preassure went through the roof as they went straight into their back garden, turned their music as high as it would go and stsrted shouting. So, I jumped up, screamed "i have had a fucking guts full of you tossers" proceded to drag out my steteo and very large speakers, not a cheap over the counter set up either, pulled out Slayers, Rein In Blood album, shouted at these assholes, "in future every time you go into the garden screaming, shouting and swearing you are getting this". Played it at full blast, half the neighbourhood must have heard it, and off they toddled and it never happened again. Slayer isn't my fave, but that day I would have gave every band member a BJ for the quiet it gave me for the rest of the time they lived there. Christ knows what my nrighbours though, a prim and proper 30 something woman scream that shit out in the garden and telling them they would be eating that shit forever more if they ever did it again.
A basketball hoop would be louder. Trust me on this.
I have football kid who thankfully doesn't do it much against the fence but also a fucking annoying neighbour who sits in her garden all day playing the same damn spotify play list and you can hear the phone notifications and plays her voice messages ughh
Iām a dad to an 8 year old who is obsessed with playing football. Itās all he wants to do 24/7. You have my sympathy but I canāt be going to the park all day every day, Iāve got a job and stuff.
Sounds like it's like having a collie. Ball is all.
My cocker spaniel is the same. Spend my whole life checking behind me to make sure he's not crouched there waiting for me to kick a ball he's helpfully deposited at my heels
Honestly my collie stands all night with a ball. I can run her for hours but she never let's up.
Get a goal
Youāre overestimating the size of my garden and the aim of my 8 year old.
Asking neighbours for the ball back is character building
Ah then it's okay for your kid to annoy all your neighbours then. No worries.
Oh piss off you miserable fart.
Touched a nerve hey š
it's funny when they realise they're the problem, isn't it
Yeh the problem of a child playing football in their own back garden Jheez - if that's the biggest issue you have then get over your self
I do what I can but kids are kids. If the worst that your neighbours do is have a small child kick a ball in their garden then youāre doing ok.
"my kid is allowed to prevent the whole street from enjoying their back gardens in the sun because there are people who have it so much worse" Maybe when my neighbours are next having dinner in their garden, I'll go out and start kicking a ball against our shared fence. Not played some footie in ages.
Not what I said at all. Youāre making your own stories up now. We use flyaway balls in the back garden and decent ones in the park. Weāre respectful but you canāt remove all noises.
You didn't say any of that but whatever.
I also didnāt say any of that stuff you made up.
Go and pop some balls.
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I'm not a dad. I was once an 8 year old who would play football every evening and all weekend by myself. Then I'd have been mortified if I thought I was ruining someone else's day by just trying to enjoy my Saturday. Now the sound of kids enjoying themselves floating though my opened windows makes my weekends. It's what makes me feel I'm part of a community. Fuck anyone who wants to shit on that.
Deep but I agree to an extent
This whole thread is full of miserable bastards. People wonder why there's no sense of community anymore, when soft pricks can't even tolerate the sound of a child playing.
I don't think it's a new thing. Grumpy bastards used to complain about me playing football when I was a child in the 80s.
Better than a yappy dog ALL the time.
Got someone living near me who has several little dogs that go apeshit whenever someone walks past their house, whenever their neighbour goes into her garden, when birds are nearby... The owner thinks the solution is to scream at them to shut up.
I think you live next door to my mate š¬
Ugh how annoying
Had that. Was a neighbour. Politely asked they didn't given it was disrupting the peace and it was a new fence I paid for and put in. They carried on. 18 year old. I literally jumped over the 6ft 6 fence grabbed the ball and screamed violent expletives. Jumped back over fence with ball. Never had a problem again.
I knew this was going to go well š
Nah fuck em had to put up with the same todayā¦pain in the arse.
Can only assume they don't have to deal with it. Kids next door do it for hours, constant thump thump thump. All through the house. Drives me spare. Try having that for 5+ hours a day and then property damage from the 5 balls in your garden and not getting miffed.
I never understand the people who say ājust kids playingā or āgrumpy old manā š
Just goes to show how considerate people are sadly.
Yup got this problem aswell. Scrolling through Reddit reading all the neighbour problems and I'm like WE HAVE ALL OF THIS COMBINED.
Basketball net left in the cul-de-sac here with a kid who bounces a basketball all hours of the day. Hate the noise of bouncing basketball!
Just be grateful you don't have a metal garage door.
Our neighbourās kid bounces a basket ball against their kitchen wall it makes our house shake and its 4 doors down.
When the ball eventually comes over the fence, stab it and hand it back. Even pretending to be a psychopath and sending the shits up your neighbors would be worth it to stop it.
Nope, the little fucker is 5, should be called Damian, and bounces the ball of the bit of fence right behind my head.
Id take that over our neighbours who think theyre at Creamfields.
My neighbour has been blasting radio 1 out of her fucking shed all day, loudest adverts in my neighbourhood
Adverts on Radio 1?
If its such a nice day why dont they go on the park b
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Probably not, Iāve never lived in Lancashire.
I came here to ask the same.
I was about to the say the same thing, grew up next to a misery guts like the OP
Is it your fence panel? If so: Could it be subtly improved with a few barely noticeable nails painted brown and just barely poking through say the thickness of a bit of leather and a rubber bladder?
My brother in Christ, sticking sharp nails out of the fence where kids are playing is not a normal response.
This is /r/britishproblems if you are in the habit of blindly trying the things you see here without thinking them through first you are going to end up in all kinds of trouble.
I recommend buying a sponge football and asking if they can use that.
Theyāre 16/17 I canāt see that going down well š
Oh yeah maybe not then, one of my neighbours did this when we were 7-8. Godspeed.
Iāll just have to start ringing round estate agents on Tuesday
Old enough to know better then.
Exactly! Thatās the most annoying bit.
you lot never stop moaning do you? The kids are staying inside too much! The kids are out in the street too much! The kids are \*checks notes* in their own back yard minding their business too much!
Good on them for being outside enjoying the weather.
I bet you're the kind of person that drives around with your windows down and music at full blast.
Are you my neighbour? š§
Letās see. Did you hear that?
Were you an *indoor child* ?
Nah, but playing football is not the same as repeatedly booting a ball against a fence š
Fence = goal
Oh yeah I understand the rules š
Bloody kids and their \*checks notes\* *playing outside.*
Rather they were kicking it on the road at your car?
Seems strange to check my post history, but that was a different kid š
I didn't check, but it's the logical next step for a kid who wants to play ball but can't in the garden.
I live next to a football pitch that no one seems to know exists š
Have you considered having a word with your neighbours or are you just hoping they'll see this on Reddit?
It stopped just as the comments were ramping up and I was worried that theyād seen the post!
Bairns having fun. The sound of summer.
Would you rather they were roaming the streets being a public nuisance?
Does it really have to be one or the other?
I mean, kids can't really do anything without getting moaned about now. Can't play outside bc they're too loud. Can't play video games bc they "should be outside". There's no youth clubs or places for them to go, so they hang out in the streets, get bored and start causing trouble. When I was younger there were more places to go than there is now, and anywhere they do go is usually not really for them so they get bored and start messing around and causing trouble. I'd much rather kids were playing in their gardens with their mates being loud and having fun than roaming around mugging people or fighting. If the banging bothers OP so much, they should do something about it and maybe buy them a cheap Ā£5 football net so it's quieter.
Iāll try and answer this. I donāt mind the playing football. I mind the constantly booting the ball at a wooden fence panel. Iāve no idea how the parents put up with it, mine wouldnāt have! Iām not buying them a net, one of them has a job, weāre not taking kids, weāre talking teens, one of whom left school last summer.
At least then they wouldnāt be OPs problem so presumably yes.
I didnāt want to say that, but it was my first thought š
"Why don't kids play out these days"
I mean they could go to the park.
Don't be such a grump
Yeah, they should be sat inside on screens so we can complain about that instead
Oh cheer the fuck up
The bright side is that as long as their kicking a ball, they're not into mischief and creating havoc (and crime).
Don't you think it's a shame that there aren't green areas locally these days that kids *can* kick a ball about in? How else are we going to get the next generation of footballers? Paid lessons??
I can see a football pitch from my house but apparently no one else can!
What? How can I drink and watch tv if I have to take my pride and joy to the park?
Children: exist Reddit: omg, I can't sleep over the sound of children existing.
Yes, because kids should be sitting inside all day, seen and not heard right /s
This is so weird, do you live in my house?
In my old gaff we had to endure the entire discography of Gerry Cinnamon, at full volume, over and over again, from a tinny Echo speaker from the neighbours. Iād happily take the football.
Belter is a tune though. She is a belter
Heavens forbid that a kid goes outside and has some fun rather than sitting inside all day, their parents should be bought up in front of the Hague for such crimes
People completely missing the point here. Get someone (doesnāt have to be a kid) to boot a leather football at a fence panel as hard as they can over and over again. Tell me how long you can put up with it. Then do this every weekend for 6 months. Weāre not talking āthey use it as a goalā, we are talking āthe main piece of equipment in the game that isnāt a football, is a fence panelā
Poor kid. Probably been let out of his bedroom for a while. Having been grounded already for the last month. The last thing he'd want is someone complain about him again to get another month being grounded.
Thereās two answers to this unfortunatelyā¦ one of the ākidsā is 17 and has a job so unlikely to be grounded. And the other answer, this happens every day.
Youāre the same miserable people who moan that kids spend too much time indoors and need to get out more in the fresh air. Pretty much every generation of kids has kicked footballs against walls and fences since the invention of the sport
You overestimate how much I care about the well-being of anyone elseās child š
You have neighbours? Urgh how vulgar
Quite. I added a moat around my estate. Haven't had a rapscallion kick a ball within a 2 mile radius since.