Compromise is good – let the kids play but try to keep the noise down, maybe?

Playing outside is fine but do they need to be in the street? That’s probably not the safest place either. How about the backyard?

OMG what is the world coming to when children cant play outside for fear of upsetting the neighbours… some people need to get a life

Certainly is the Australian way! We had to play outside till dinner time. Usually riding bikes or roller skates/boards with majority of kids in my street it was great to catch up with friends. But there’s always one in every street who complains. I remember her well, we all knew not to hang around near her house. This lady would hunt us down to verbal us. As I grew up I became friends with her and found out she was a very lonely old lady who just wanted somebody to talk too.

Parents can’t win these days, everything they do seems to be wrong. I grew up playing in the street with the other neighbourhood kids, as did all my friends. Completely normal. Why does everyone feel so entitled to whinge about every single little thing??

There are times when playing in the quiet streets can be annoying. If parks are there, they should be used. My children are lucky as they have all had plenty of backyard to play in and stayed out of the streets. Have had some complaints from neighbours about noises and children can get really noisy. Just talk to the neighbours and find out what the problem is.

This is sad…. let kids be kids. This is why I live in the country!

kids are just being kids. if you don’t like it then move! of course people have to have consideration for their neighbours but how are you supposed to keep kids quiet? i would just be happy that the kids are happy and playing and not breaking windows or worse

These people need to move to the country when I have no neighbors and no noise apart from the birds and nature. Although then they would probably complain the birds are too loud ha ha Ha.
I think they need to just chill out a bit. I’m very lucky that I have fantastic neighbors and I feel for those people who don’t have neighbors as nice as mine

Lol. Kids playing is soooo much better than teenager’s parties. This person needs to move to a rural property. Then they can quiet all they like with no neighbours.

Because of my age, playing in the street was the Australian way, mum was always telling us to go out and play, all the kids enjoyed playing together, I would like to see my grandchildren outside playing than inside on computers

What about when the “children” are teenage boys playing cricket in the street and hitting cars? And there’s a park less than three minutes walk away! And, if you were to go out and complain, you could probably expect some retribution rather than an apology – that’s what I have to deal with. Often times people feel helpless when confronted with irresponsible neighbours.

Obviously the complainers have bigger issues and want to take it out on innocent kids. Would they rather the kids be locked up and glued to technology screens? Surely the sound can’t be that bad. Maybe they should wear earmuffs? haha

It’s sad how intolerant people can be !
We have a little girl with Down Syndrome who likes to run off, so we lock our door. One day she ran off and after touching a metal fences, touched with slightly chalky hands touched the car of our neighbor and left a handprint. He was furious !
Imagine losing your cool because of a toddler with Down Syndrome leaves a handprint on your car….

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  • • mom93821 replied
    • 16 Sep 2017 , 7:39 am

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  A horrible experience for your daughter 🙁 This is not something that would bother me – but messy play should be encouraged. Chalk does wash off and it would not have been deliberate.

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    • • mom90758 replied
      • 16 Sep 2017 , 12:37 pm

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    Just for some chalk? It’s not as she put a nail in the car. Absolutely not nice!!

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    • • Ellen replied
      • 17 Sep 2017 , 4:06 am

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    No, not deliberate at all, my daughter doesn’t have a clue. I just find it very sad that people are so intolerant and cold in their reactions…

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    • • mom93821 replied
      • 17 Sep 2017 , 7:42 am

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    I agree with you – people need to be tolerant. It makes the world a much better and nicer place. Thank you for sharing the photo – such a beautiful child; and mum and daughter photo. 🙂

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    • • mom90758 replied
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    The picture is amazing indeed. She looks like such a happy child!! 🙂

oh I can’t wait to see the response if they throw a street party – this person with their bad English should maybe just by some noise cancelling headphones and enjoy quiet and ignorant bliss each and every day while the kids enjoy being kids and growing up like we did as kids

Incredible. Why didn’t the knock at this family’s door instead of sending a letter?
Luckily I’ve never had problems here. And there are a lot of kids.

Seriously? I’d be buying all sorts of noisy outside toys after a note like that.

Cowards! I would definitely hold a street party, maybe cricket match over summer each weekend and a footy match in winter, can’t get an more aussie than that!

The kids should be allowed to play in their street regardless!

The Australian way is to see children playing out side enjoying the fresh air ..as long as they are not playing on the street, then every thing is hunky dory. Actually my mind is now wandering back to when I was a child …all the children in the street would play cricket actually on the road/street, it was a LOT quieter back then, it indeed was the Australian way. Sure times have changed and roads/streets much busier and children should not play on streets now but playing out side should still be widely encouraged be it in the backyard, front yard or park.
Maybe this person complaining needs to move to a remote HUGE property.