Am I being unreasonable? Neighbor complaints about noise - sorry long

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. I'm a mom to a 3 yo and 1 yo and would never let my children behave this way. Not all parents of young children are this disrepectful towards their neighbors. Well, at least I hope not.

Disrespectful? Like in "isolating our walls, not allowing ball play, no playing upstairs and not complaining about 11PM laundry habits" disrespectful?
Get a grip.

I explained the physics of vibrations across floorboards a couple pages ago and you conveniently ignored that. You also never answered why you bothered to post if you didn't really want opinions.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow. I'm a mom to a 3 yo and 1 yo and would never let my children behave this way. Not all parents of young children are this disrepectful towards their neighbors. Well, at least I hope not.

Disrespectful? Like in "isolating our walls, not allowing ball play, no playing upstairs and not complaining about 11PM laundry habits" disrespectful?
Get a grip.

I explained the physics of vibrations across floorboards a couple pages ago and you conveniently ignored that. You also never answered why you bothered to post if you didn't really want opinions.

Not knowing about the physics of vibrations across floorboards does not make one disrespectful!! LOL!

[Anonymous]

I also thought this was Chipotle Lady.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can see why your husband goes to the library

yup, it's obvious. the deal is to have childcare in place if he wants to work from home and he knows it's not always possible to keep them quiet when he needs to lead a conference call. his job requires quiet moments so he goes where it's quiet. was i supposed to get offended with your comment?

He's having conference calls at the library?!

Maybe they are very quiet conference calls.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:PS. Nanny again- if I let the kids in my care fly down the stairs on cardboard boxes, I'd be fired. Why? Besides the fact that that isn't an appropriate activity it's COMPLETELY UNSAFE.

Boxriding is really fun. It also works well on hills outside, except hills are hard to find.

Sledding is dangerous, as are bicycles and any number of wonderful things to do..trampolines, climbing trees...acorn fights...

Nanny, you're absurd. I did this all the time as a kid. We also did it w/o boxes, just slide down the stairs on our bottoms or tummies. I'm a nanny and this is how I teach toddlers to go down stairs before it's safe for them to walk down (slide on tummies not in boxes.) If an older kid wanted to careen down the stairs in a box, and the stairs were unobstructed at the bottom, I'd have no issue with it. It's fun, and a hell of a lot safer than riding in a car or walking across a street. Seriously, pick your battles a little more wisely.

[Anonymous]

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My kids are 2 and 5, they're not allowed to play ball in the house but they run and yell. We sing and dance together and they love to slide down the stairs on cardboard boxes.
Anyway, today we were having a play date and the other child is a screamer. Mom is working hard on teaching him inside voice but the guy likes to yell from the top of his lungs.

The kids run and yell, you all sing and dance, they love to slide down the stairs on cardboard boxes, you have a child over who likes to yell at the top of his lungs -- and it's unreasonable of the neighbor to complain about the noise?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PS. Nanny again- if I let the kids in my care fly down the stairs on cardboard boxes, I'd be fired. Why? Besides the fact that that isn't an appropriate activity it's COMPLETELY UNSAFE.

Boxriding is really fun. It also works well on hills outside, except hills are hard to find.

Sledding is dangerous, as are bicycles and any number of wonderful things to do..trampolines, climbing trees...acorn fights...

Nanny, you're absurd. I did this all the time as a kid. We also did it w/o boxes, just slide down the stairs on our bottoms or tummies. I'm a nanny and this is how I teach toddlers to go down stairs before it's safe for them to walk down (slide on tummies not in boxes.) If an older kid wanted to careen down the stairs in a box, and the stairs were unobstructed at the bottom, I'd have no issue with it. It's fun, and a hell of a lot safer than riding in a car or walking across a street. Seriously, pick your battles a little more wisely.

Neither one of you who do stair sliding is very creative... a box isn't sturdy... your bottom or tummy... ouch... we always did pillows - the big bolster pillows when my parents were not home. Lots of fun. BUT, we lived in a single family house and I would never let my child do it. OP needs to get her kids out more - open gym's, bounce house, playground... sports activities to get the energy out. And, teach her kids NO and to be respectful. There needs to be come common sense when you are living in shared housing. Be considerate to your neighbors. If you want your kids to act out of control, move to the country where your nearest neighbors are a mile away.

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Well, if she asked for you to keep your kids completely silent, that is unreasonable. But you admit you just had a child over to your place who was a "screamer." So I don't think that it is unreasonable for her to ask you to try to keep it down.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can see why your husband goes to the library

yup, it's obvious. the deal is to have childcare in place if he wants to work from home and he knows it's not always possible to keep them quiet when he needs to lead a conference call. his job requires quiet moments so he goes where it's quiet. was i supposed to get offended with your comment?

He's having conference calls at the library?!

Maybe they are very quiet conference calls.

The public libraries I use don't allow cellphone use.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can see why your husband goes to the library

yup, it's obvious. the deal is to have childcare in place if he wants to work from home and he knows it's not always possible to keep them quiet when he needs to lead a conference call. his job requires quiet moments so he goes where it's quiet. was i supposed to get offended with your comment?

He's having conference calls at the library?!

Maybe they are very quiet conference calls.

The public libraries I use don't allow cellphone use.

Public libraries i have used have closed door single person desk areas.

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Public libraries i have used have closed door single person desk areas.

I live in Montgomery County, where the public libraries don't allow cellphone use at all. What you are calling "closed door single person desk areas" they call "quiet study rooms". Is OP's husband occupying a group study room all by himself? Libraries are full of odd people.

[Anonymous]

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Public libraries i have used have closed door single person desk areas.

I live in Montgomery County, where the public libraries don't allow cellphone use at all. What you are calling "closed door single person desk areas" they call "quiet study rooms". Is OP's husband occupying a group study room all by himself? Libraries are full of odd people.

If you were following the thread you'd see OP mentioning arlington's code so I assure you OP doesn't live in Montgomery county.

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The husband has conference calls at the library? So the entire family is entitled and disrespectful, I see…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The husband has conference calls at the library? So the entire family is entitled and disrespectful, I see…

Where did OP say that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The husband has conference calls at the library? So the entire family is entitled and disrespectful, I see…

Where did OP say that?

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