My upstair neighbours have two kids who do nothing but run around,jump and drop their toys on the floor creating lots of noise and it's driving me crazy!
I wake up at 6:20 AM on weekends when I usually sleep till 10 after a long night because they decide it's fair to let them make a racket at that ungodly hour.
Sleep disturbance is terrible since I have to wake up and go back to sleep every damn night many times until I wake up at my usual times.
What can I do? Should I talk to them about it or can they do nothing about it? They are children after all...
I'd love to soundproof my room but I don't think vibrations from jumping/running will be blocked unlike sound.
I am living a nightmare and would like some opinions on what can be done about it.
I used to have the same grasp of the world and someone else invading my private sphere, which at that point of my life clearly expanded outside of my own 4 walls.
Things change when you then have kids of your own.
You find out that these are things out of your control.
Kids does not develop a proper day/night rhythm, I can not even tell you when, our daughter is 4 years old now and its still not compatible with adults. Kids need to sleep 11 hours a night, when put in bed at 1900, that means you have them up again at latest 0600 in the morning, most of the time earlier. Now add that kids have a ton of nightmares, night terrors and being-afraid-of-being-left-alone-in-the-dark experiences, so you also get up along the night. Or get to sleep along your kids with a foot in your face.
Kids have absolutely zero understanding of their surroundings, there is only ME, motoric skills are far from fine tuned.
Kids are building their bodies and muscles, all the time, they are pre-programmed to always be on the move, jump, run, explore, climb etc etc, there is nothing you can do to stop this, if you tackle this and get passive kids that only sit and watch TV, well, good luck in the future with a limped physical development early in life.
Now what did we do to make life more tolerable for our neighbours, up and down too, we talked with them.
We tried to find solutions on when we were home, when neighbours were home, tried to find a way of scheduling noise to be at hours where it was of least nuisance.
We have had endless talks with our kid about how it is important to remember that there is other people in the building and noise just for the sake of making noise is bad.
But we can repeat this 60 times a day, there is simply no room or grasp in the kids mind for this kind of taking care of other people in a abstract plane like this.
Best of luck with living in a shared building, but remember that it comes with noise to do so.
We are now moving into our own house and it is also a relief to us that we are no longer make life intolerable for others.
Print out your own original post, keep it safe somewhere, wait until you have your own kids and they are around age 3-4, then find your printed out paper and read it again
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