Please Shut Your Kid Up! *RANT*

[PineBurrowPeeps]

I still worry about what our neighbors must have thought of us in our first apartment. We lived in the middle, tenents below and above us.
We lived their for 3 years, we had two babies, one of which had colic and screamed ALL the time as an infant, and then two toddlers running like crazy all over inside all day because we were living in the ghetto and there was no where for them to safely play outside.
My husband worked weird hours and would come home at all hours of the night and then start cooking and stuff...

The people above us fought constantly though and were druggies. I cannot tell you how many times I called the cops on them because the husband would be beating the wife to a pulp

 

[obxWaMi]

In reply to hearing "EVERYTHING".... we have a garage converted into an in-law-suite and we rented it to a young couple for the summer. I know they could hear our tv through the wall so I always wondered why they didn't assume we could hear them in the middle of the night. I was too embarrassed to mention it to them. I figured that they were only going to be here 3 months and we could endure for that long.
From now on we will be sure to share this story to anyone we rent to.

 

[wombat]

I lived in an apartment complex where dozens of people would congregate in the parking lot blasting their car stereos and tossing beer bottles into the air just to see them smash all over the asphalt until 4am or so several nights a week. Calling the police did nothing; they'd just be back out there 20 mins after they were dispersed. Complaining to the property management did nothing, either.

I moved to a small townhouse, and the guy next door came over, introduced himself, and gave me his phone number. Told me he was gonna keep turning his stereo up a notch until I could hear it, and asked me to ring him as soon as I could. The walls in that place were cinderblock between the units. I could barely hear his tunes when he had it on "10." Well-made building, considerate neighbor. World of difference from the previous place.

I'd say check out a building around 7pm on a Friday before moving into one!

The best one had to be an old house I lived in while in college. A bunch of girls had moved into the floor upstairs, and they were fond of bringing guys home from the local nightclub, then running inside and locking the would-be Romeos out, and then taunting them out the 2nd story windows. From there they'd move to blasting their stereo and stomping about on the floor over our heads. We decided on a curfew for them. If they were still making noise at 3am, one of us would simply go to the basement and pull the main breaker for their floor. We'd put it back in whenever we happened to get up the next morning. That place had been a great place to live; big 3-story Victorian, everyone got along, decided which nights were house parties, all the doors between the floors open. We used to make rent by having beer parties. When the people in the middle floor moved out and the

moved in, it was the end of an era. Good thing though, I'd probably be the world's oldest college junior and still living there otherwise.

 

[1acrefarm]

My new old enough to know better adult neighbors crunk their bass up on their car about an hour ago. My kitchen window was rattling. I hope they don't make it a habit.

 

[PineBurrowPeeps]

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LOL... I don't know. It's just a natural thing, I could see if it were in broad daylight and your kids are awake but if it's late at night and their a couple, what's the problem? Most people don't take too long.

 

[call ducks]

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LOL... I don't know. It's just a natural thing, I could see if it were in broad daylight and your kids are awake but if it's late at night and their a couple, what's the problem? Most people don't take too long.

this is making my

 

[Boyd]

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LOL... I don't know. It's just a natural thing, I could see if it were in broad daylight and your kids are awake but if it's late at night and their a couple, what's the problem? Most people don't take too long.

never more than an hour or two.

 

[GrayDragon]

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I say this as a proud aunt and even prouder mother.

Some kids are brats. Some parents are incompetent. Some kids need discipline. Some parents need discipline. And some kids and some parents are horrible little monsters that should have to go live in a cave somewhere until they learn to be human beings instead of uncivilized beasts.

I say this as a proud aunt and even prouder mother.

It is possible to teach your children to be respectful of other people.
It is possible to teach your children not to scream all the time.
It is possible to teach your children not to run into people in public.
It is possible to teach your children not to pull things off shelves.

All you have to do is remember that the word 'parent' is also a verb.

And it is perfectly okay to be upset at the multitude of people who don't understand that. And being upset at the multitude of people who don't understand that doesn't mean we don't have children. It just means we know how to be parents.

Kids will be kids is not an excuse for kids to be howling banshees running roughshod over the neighbors.

 

[Boyd]

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I say this as a proud aunt and even prouder mother.

Some kids are brats. Some parents are incompetent. Some kids need discipline. Some parents need discipline. And some kids and some parents are horrible little monsters that should have to go live in a cave somewhere until they learn to be human beings instead of uncivilized beasts.

I say this as a proud aunt and even prouder mother.

It is possible to teach your children to be respectful of other people.
It is possible to teach your children not to scream all the time.
It is possible to teach your children not to run into people in public.
It is possible to teach your children not to pull things off shelves.

All you have to do is remember that the word 'parent' is also a verb.

And it is perfectly okay to be upset at the multitude of people who don't understand that. And being upset at the multitude of people who don't understand that doesn't mean we don't have children. It just means we know how to be parents.

Kids will be kids is not an excuse for kids to be howling banshees running roughshod over the neighbors.

 

[Rillion]

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Wow! So much word for this. I don't have kids, so I'm not generally allowed to make statements like these.....so I'm happy that you did. Thanks for making such an eloquent statement in favor of teaching kids responsibility and etiquette.