Mom Is “Left Speechless” After Neighbor From Downstairs Has Enough Of Her Loud 3-Year-Old And Tells Her To Be Quiet
Few things are more annoying than a noisy neighbor living right next to you. Whether it’s music blasting into midnight or kids screaming and running right above you, it can seriously get on your nerves.
Speaking of the latter scenario, this is precisely what happened to one neighbor who got fed up with the noises coming from the flat above where a family with a three-year-old and a newborn lives.
The incident was shared by a mom who was wondering if it’s unreasonable of her to be fuming at that neighbor. “We’ve literally just had a knock on the door from our downstairs neighbor. We live in a maisonette, we’re in the top flat, he’s on the bottom. He said ‘listen, can you tell your kid to be quiet and stop running around?’” the mom wrote in a post on Momsnet.
Read on below for the whole story and be sure to share what you think of the whole situation in the comments below!
Recently, a mom shared how her neighbor from downstairs asked her to keep her 3-year-old quiet, which left her fuming
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Many people said that the mom is being unreasonable and that the neighbor who got fed up with the noise is right in this situation
Others, however, expressed their support for the mom and said that it’s the neighbor’s problem
If you have kids you should be able to control them. Be more considerate of your neighbors. Not everyone enjoys the stomping and screaming from your little Angel.
Agreed. I lived in an apartment for years and a 3 year old running and screaming up and down the hallway before 8am on a Sunday would p**s me off too. Imo the neighbor wasn't being rude or unreasonable to ask the mom to control her kid
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Wow, I dont mow my lawn before 10 am on Sunday so as not to disturb my neighbors. The kine " she doesnt understand she needs to be quiet at certain times of the day" is telling. She also doesnt understand that you cant have candy for breakfast ( doing certain things differently based on what time it is ) but thats the parents job to teach her. If you move into a flat with kids above, you expect to hear noise. You also expect that the parents will teach their child to be respectful of others.
I agree. I think it's definitely possible to teach young children the difference between walking and running (or talking and yelling/screaming). A parent can teach them walking is normal use of their living space, but they cannot run or jump inside the apartment because it's noisy and purposely making noise is unconsidered to others. Of course a young child will sometimes forget or just don't do it, but that's part of parenting. I think a down stairs neighbor will be much more forgiving if it's only once in a while and he knows the parents are actively parenting their child on the topic.
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I hate the argument saying "you decided to live in an apartment so you should tolerate noisiness". No way. Me deciding to live in an apartment (if by decision you mean I had no choice because houses are waaay out of my price range) has nothing to do with you being an a*****e and me having to accept it. Living in any kind of community, be it a house or a block of apartments, comes with consideration for others. This has nothing to do with the kid, of course she doesn't understand. She also doesnt understand why she must brush her teeth or why she must wash herself. It is up to the parent to make her understand.
I'd say "you decided to live in a appartement, you should be carefull not to be too loud". Saying that as a mother of 2. We were always carefull to keep them from running/jumping inside and get them to play outside when they needed to move. We moved in a house when they were 2 and 4 and I still make sure they are too loud in the garden. As you said "considération for others". No one wants the upstairs lady to have her high heels inside, the dog on the right to howl like the poor doggo they are for being left alone all day, or the student of first floor to throw a party until 4am in the middle of the week. It's a collective duty to make things work. Except for the crazy old lady that was complaining all the time about the noise coming from the school playground during break times...
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If you have kids you should be able to control them. Be more considerate of your neighbors. Not everyone enjoys the stomping and screaming from your little Angel.
Agreed. I lived in an apartment for years and a 3 year old running and screaming up and down the hallway before 8am on a Sunday would p**s me off too. Imo the neighbor wasn't being rude or unreasonable to ask the mom to control her kid
Load More Replies... Wow, I dont mow my lawn before 10 am on Sunday so as not to disturb my neighbors. The kine " she doesnt understand she needs to be quiet at certain times of the day" is telling. She also doesnt understand that you cant have candy for breakfast ( doing certain things differently based on what time it is ) but thats the parents job to teach her. If you move into a flat with kids above, you expect to hear noise. You also expect that the parents will teach their child to be respectful of others.
I agree. I think it's definitely possible to teach young children the difference between walking and running (or talking and yelling/screaming). A parent can teach them walking is normal use of their living space, but they cannot run or jump inside the apartment because it's noisy and purposely making noise is unconsidered to others. Of course a young child will sometimes forget or just don't do it, but that's part of parenting. I think a down stairs neighbor will be much more forgiving if it's only once in a while and he knows the parents are actively parenting their child on the topic.
Load More Replies... I hate the argument saying "you decided to live in an apartment so you should tolerate noisiness". No way. Me deciding to live in an apartment (if by decision you mean I had no choice because houses are waaay out of my price range) has nothing to do with you being an a*****e and me having to accept it. Living in any kind of community, be it a house or a block of apartments, comes with consideration for others. This has nothing to do with the kid, of course she doesn't understand. She also doesnt understand why she must brush her teeth or why she must wash herself. It is up to the parent to make her understand.
I'd say "you decided to live in a appartement, you should be carefull not to be too loud". Saying that as a mother of 2. We were always carefull to keep them from running/jumping inside and get them to play outside when they needed to move. We moved in a house when they were 2 and 4 and I still make sure they are too loud in the garden. As you said "considération for others". No one wants the upstairs lady to have her high heels inside, the dog on the right to howl like the poor doggo they are for being left alone all day, or the student of first floor to throw a party until 4am in the middle of the week. It's a collective duty to make things work. Except for the crazy old lady that was complaining all the time about the noise coming from the school playground during break times...
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