Noisy kids

Legally, a parent is responsible for a minor's actions. IOW when you break something, your parents have to pay for it.

My father reminded me of this very often. Even if I didn't do anything wrong, he constantly threatened to whoop my *** if I did anything wrong. And if I did, well, he whooped me good.
Sure of course, legally. But no "moral blameworthiness"? Don't ever let anyone hear you tell your 5 year old it's wrong to hit their younger sibling. This is the new paradigm shift that's being foisted on society for the sake of political correctness by a bunch of retards.
 
You're describing socialization, an essential learned behaviour. Young children natively have no concept of things adults consider baked into the fabric of the universe, like comparative volume of containers or the relationship between time, speed and distance. Even these are socially learned so expecting children to be fully socially aware moral agents seems ambitious.
 
By the time they are 14 years old?? Everybody begins teaching their children correct behaviour as soon as they are able to communicate. This is not an out of this world concept except for those idiots in leadership that want to make it a taboo principal.
 
Still talking about loud kids and barking dogs? Both of these things are more important to the future of the world then the self-involved, egotistical, grumpy old men complaining about them. The air, the place, the planet are not yours, if you have a problem with the noise level of your neighbors MOVE, the whole community will be better for it
 
Still talking about loud kids and barking dogs? Both of these things are more important to the future of the world then the self-involved, egotistical, grumpy old men complaining about them.

For the most part, grumpy old men just use up the oxygen and replace it with methane.

I personally would feel presumptuous complaining about kid's noise when they're playing. I live in a family oriented community and the whole neighborhood is single family homes. If I hated kids, this would have been a bad choice. I'm glad to see a nice young family move in. It's a lot better than the crazy ex-con down the alley or the filthy smelly people across the alley.
 
Have you ever thought about turning your speakers up to the max, pointing them in their direction, and playing some music they might not appreciate?

Keep in mind, if the kids end up liking that music, you might be stuck listening to it forever, or until one of you moves out.

One particular song comes to mind:

I actually quite like that. I'd have thought Cliff Richard would be more effective, or some white Christian rapping music.
 
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A work colleague had an Ulver album cover as a screen saver, the one with the sun (or moon) between the horns of something. He's introduced me to a lot of metal, Opeth, Negura Bunget, Darkthrone, Burzum and many more.
Imagine playing extreme metal to scare the neighbours, just for them to make the devils horn sign and shout "turn it up, granddad!".
 
Carrot or the stick? Since you can’t apply the stick, try the carrot. Just from the psychology folks an intermittent reward works best. So find an excuse to give perhaps Hershey bars and mention that you appreciate how quiet they are today. Next few times repeat the carrot. Then perhaps every other time. But don’t drop too infrequent until the behavior is well established.