'Cruel neighbour called my child an animal - he's not done anything wrong'
Sometimes, you can look at your kids' behaviour through rose-tinted glasses, even when they're being naughty.
But other times, you may turn to other parents to ask whether you're actually the one in the wrong, or if it's someone else who is being unreasonable. One woman was left trying to fathom if her "downstairs neighbour is out of line" or whether she and her family are "indeed a nuisance."
The mother was baffled when her downstairs neighbour referred to her two-year-old son as an "animal", inferring that he should "go back to the jungle", saying that his home is not a "playground."
The woman took to Mumsnet to see what others thought about the situation. She penned: "For context, we live in a 70s concrete block, our floors are lino, so not carpeted but equally not hardwood and there’s a fair bit of padding. Our downstairs neighbour has been up this evening shouting the odds about our 2-year-old running around (calling him an animal and saying he should go back to the jungle/ this isn’t a playground etc.
"We're white so I'm not reading too much into that. This is the second time she's been up in two months, the first time was banging on our door at 10pm because our toddler was crying hysterically (he had a bug and had been sick all over himself, so understandably upset - otherwise he essentially never cries during the night)."
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She explained that her son goes to bed at 7.30pm, and stays in bed until 6am, and so the only noise from upstairs is "two adults doing evening stuff". They also limit "noisy toys" and "running" in the small hours of the morning, and he goes to his childminder at 8am, and is there until 3pm, then is out with his mum in the afternoon until around 5.30pm.
"We come home, eat dinner etc. all usually low-key", she shared, admitting that when he "moves room to room" he does "run", but he's "not constantly running around." She explained that he sometimes "shrieks a little" when playing with his dad for 45 mins a day, but it's not awful. "So essentially the neighbour is complaining about the 45 minutes a day our 2-year-old plays with his dad", she fumed.
She continued: "When she came to the door this evening, I did try to explain that the noise would not continue past 7pm etc. etc. but she was too busy shouting over me about how she pays to live here(?), she works nights (nothing we can do about that), animals, playground as above etc. I am quite sensitive to noise myself but accept that I live in a flat and there is a certain amount of daytime noise that can't be avoided."
In the comments, the mum received a mixed response. Some agreed that kids make noise, and others should just accept that, but others were not so forgiving. One wrote: "Totally nasty neighbours! Tell them to f**k off! You have a small child, they create noise!" Someone agreed: "It's just normal daily living noise.
"They're very lucky your toddler sleeps through the night other than if he's unwell. 45 mins of boisterous play when his dad returns from work is an unreasonable thing to complain about. You do what you can to be good neighbours and you shouldn't feel as if you need to do any more than you already do."
Another defended the neighbour, saying: "Probably saying go back to the jungle because he sounds like an elephant", with another Mumsnetter penning: "The trouble with flats is that the person underneath hears every footfall. Been there. Maybe a rug?"
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