Is it normal that i really can't tolerate other peoples children?
Hi all, I'm 24 and wondering if how I'm feeling is normal.
I currently live in a cul-de-sac that consists of about 12 houses altogether. It's a nice house and they're all new build houses. But as per usual, anything too good to be true normally ends up turning into a nightmare.
I can't tolerate the neighbours kids. They're constantly playing in the front drive, which I wouldn't mind if they didn't leave chalk drawings on there. I often go outside and their toys are left in the front garden, I've been tempted to throw them away before now but decided that's not a nice thing to do. So I leave them in the middle of the path off the drive for them to pick up the next day.
There's a gap between the houses, which echoes really loudly. So they decided to run down there screaming and stamping their feet. This can sometimes last for a few hours.
They play football quite often and the ball will bounce off the front door, and sometimes their pushable scooters go into the front door as well.
I can hear certain parents screaming at their kids, to absolutely no avail. Their kids don't care and it pisses me off.
The only problem I've got is that I don't rent the house. My parents do. And they've had enough of it but are too nice to do anything about it. I'd go out and say something happily but it's not my house so I've been told not to get involved.
So I've decided that I'm going to go to university. I'm starting an access to higher education course in September 2015, and will be off to university September 2016. Mainly because minimum wage doesn't pay enough to rent even a 1 bedroom flat. So getting a good education and becoming successful has been my main priority.
However... I'm trying to study and yet all I can hear is kids screaming and parents screaming at their kids who scream back with more screaming to top that up.
This can last from 3pm - 9pm at night sometimes. Now the summer is drawing ever nearer, I fear this is going to become a nightmare.
All I want to do is study, go to university and get away from the screaming kids and their screaming parents.
Is it normal to be this frustrated and angry at the kids and their parents. Because it seems to me that their parents have pretty much lost control of their kids.
I hope that one day I'll earn enough money so that I don't have to live around other peoples children and can live a peaceful life.
Is this unreasonable ? Because at the moment I feel like plugging in about 4 x 100 watt speakers in the middle of the cul-de-sac from 3pm - 9pm and blasting every single disturbed album as loud as I can. So that I can disturb all of them for a change past the point that they can't take it.
I also feel that eventually you wont be able to move anywhere without being surrounded by kids. Which is fine if you have kids of your own. But if you're someone who doesn't have much tolerance for them like me, your're screwed. I'm forced to tolerate other peoples noisy kids. Also if you're not a "kid person" you're somehow assumed to be a bad person.
If kids actually got disciplined properly, this wouldn't happen. It just seems that my generation especially don't seem to know how to discipline their kids.
Am I the only one who feels like my life is being affected by other peoples life choices ?
My lifestyle choice doesn't affect anyone. I sit and study all day and work part time on weekends. (Not because I'm lazy, I've worked since I left school lol. But I'm re-sitting my maths exam so I'm making the most of the time I've got before I start college in september.)
If I want to listen to music I put headphones in and if I need to do any house work that could be noisy. I make sure it's done in the afternoon so as not to wake people up at night.
Maybe I'm just a grumpy young man ? Or maybe there are other people who feel the same haha