Please keep the noise down.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....ldren-noise-down.html

We all like the noise of children's shouts and laughter when they are at play, after all we were all children ourselves once.

But surely some can empathize with this house owner, after all the school's playground has been moved to only 10ft away when it was once 85ft away from his house.

Some of today's children, seem to take a delight in constantly screaming, when I was a child we were always told by our parents to "play properly, there is no need to scream".

[vulcan]

Yelling and laughing is normal, screaming isn't. I heard screaming the other day and thinking a child was hurt, I investigated. This is what I found, two girls sitting on the ground with their faces about 6 inches apart screaming into each others face. Only stopping to draw breath this went on for a good few minutes. When they stopped they quietly got on their bicycles and rode off, I thought this very strange behaviour.

[ummmm]

Well, yeah, just like that.

[ummmm]

That is strange behaviour Vulcan.

[B00]

Read this the other day and was flummoxed why he was creating a fuss at all to be honest.

Yes I understand they've moved the playground, but surely even moving near a school you have to expect noise which could be excessive to you? If you'd any problems with it, the logical thing would be to not move anywhere near it in the first place- right?

Kids are noisy, and sorry but I really dislike all this "kids should be seen and not heard" and "kids should be made to play quietly" cobblers. There's so much children can't do now in this day and age ,are we really going to take away the pleasure of playing outdoors and using letting their imaginations run riot as well?

[sunny-dave]

I suspect that there is more 'back story' to this than is immediately apparent from the (deliberately sensationalised) article - which makes me reluctant to comment on the specific case.

I would however venture to support eccles in feeling that the cult of indulegence of children ('let them scream, they're only young once' ) has got completely out of hand.

Whilst I wouldn't wish to go back to the repressed days of 'children should be seen and not heard', I can't help but worry that parents (and others in loco parentis) are actually doing children a considerable dis-service by not imposing some adherence to acceptable social norms of behaviour - particularly in terms of respect for other peoples right to enjoy *their* lives.

[THEMOTLEY1]

Please don't speak for me aog <<<we all like>>>, as it happens I don't like and object to you hi-jacking my opinion.

[Ric.ror]

Its the same with those pesky birds chirping away at lord knows what time in the morning, and its probably as natural for children to be noisy as it is the birds to be chirpy

[andy-hughes]

No it's not DT, your comparison is meaningless.

It is not possible to buy a house on golf course proerty, and you can live several hundred yards from a bondary and still be subject to the occasional stray ball.

The Mail report does not mention how the school boundary was moved, and how the school were able to extend / move their playground so much nearer to a residential property.

[albaqwerty]

Wouldn't the school have been subjected to some sort of planning rule or change-of-use rule?