Re: noisy kids
- From: MM <kylix_is@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:13:56 +0100
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 02:14:12 +0100, "Joe Lee" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
>"MM" <kylix_is@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:6ui9h1laplf8hmqcgtp087g3ehmscsp7u2@xxxxxxxxxx
>> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:26:07 +0000 (UTC), "shelia"
>> <shelia.idontwantspam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>New neighbours moved in last year. The children are aged about six and
>>>four
>>>and are allowed to scream and shout. I don't hate kids and I have no
>>>problem
>>>with kids playing but this is so loud that I have to go in doors. They
>>>have
>>>a large garden but the family prefer to be as close to my back door as
>>>possible. One hot day we were sitting in the garden when they started
>>>being
>>>noisy and then the lad started using a toy microphones so again we went in
>>>the house. Every time the sun shines I know that I will have to stay in. I
>>>also realise that I am so annoyed that I have probably become over
>>>sensitive. They are the first house we are the second so it wont bother my
>>>other neighbours I don't suppose. It seems so unfair that we can't enjoy
>>>our
>>>garden. I am not a confident person who can go and confront them, they
>>>know
>>>what they are doing anyhow.
>>
>> Unfortunately, kids will be kids. In days of yore even children of
>> this young age would be encouraged to play outside. Nowadays, with all
>> the hysteria over 'stranger danger', they stay cooped up the whole
>> time - and an enclosed garden is quite cooped up to my mind. When I
>> was seven I roamed the streets of Hastings alone in the summer
>> holidays, just looking at people, watching the little train on the
>> promenade, eating candy floss. Other kids did the same. Then we went
>> home for our tea.
>>
>> This problem today is a byproduct of the crazy way we build in this
>> country with everyone living on top of everyone else. New houses are
>> built very close to each other, even 'executive' homes, and the
>> gardens are often miniscule.
>
>
>I think it's more a product of intolerance. Remember the rows of Victorian
>terraces with no garden but just an outside privvy in the yard. Don't cue
>the Hovis Ad. because i'm not suggesting that all was rosy or that the
>neighbours never fell out, simply that the density of modern housing is not
>the root cause of the problem.
But everything was different then. Families were *much* larger, and
most households would have had numerous children playing in the
street. Who would have been alone at home trying to get some peace and
quiet, though? Either one was at work for ten hours, or one was at
home caring for the home and the children. Hobnail boots and horses
hooves on cobble stones; factory hooters and whistles; steam trains.
Noise was an ever present accompaniment to normal life. However, if
you belonged to the gentile set and sought a life of tranquility away
from the hustle and bustle of the town, you bought a cottage in the
country and had to have the means to support that lifestyle.
MM
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