Kid's noise is all right

[sunnymummy]

GERMANY'S cabinet today adopted draft legislation aimed at battling a growing tide of complaints against noisy children, in what is a rapidly ageing society.

The legislation aims to make it easier to build creches in residential areas following a spate of objections against the din of children at play.
Some of these complaints have resulted in kindergartens being refused planning permission or childcare centres having to build noise-protection walls so as not to disturb locals.
Many are from people in their 30s and 40s, including couples with children, worried about the value of their property falling if a noisy new kindergarten springs up nearby, experts say.
In a statement, Environment Minister Norbert Roettgen said: "This is a clear legislative signal in favour of a child-friendly society."
"The noise made by children ... cannot be treated in the same way as the noise made by industrial equipment," added the minister.

Full story (http://www.news.com.au/world/kids-noise-is-all-right-says-berlin/story-e6frfkyi-1226007311757)

People need to get a grip! :rolleyes:

[Benji]

Good grief some people are so precious I'm surprised they can get out of bed in the mornings. Children making noise? How dare they :shame:

[TNTbub]

Depends on the level of noise, how long, and if its general play or some brat causing caos.

But there should be nothing wrong with a kindergarten

[second baby not so easy]

Childcare and kindys would normally be working during the day and if at night the kids would be asleep. So I would not care. I would prefer kids playing and shouting to loud adults!

I would be more against a pub being set up on my street :laughing:

[cutiepatootie]

Wow. I have to admit that since I had the kids my level of noise anxiety (which previously had been about 5) has sky-rocketed to about 99, given that the kids next door are SO noisy that they wake my kids up every. single. day.

EVERY DAY.

At what point does their right to be so noisy need to be tempered by my childrens' right to have their day sleeps?

That could be answered in many ways but at the end of the day, they're just kids, their parents are lovely, we're all friendly neighbours, they're not making so much noise that I would consider it untoward - they're just super, dooper, ooper noisy kids (and their parents do acknowledge that).

We just suck it up and deal with it. My kids are important and their sleeps are important but I think it's a bit much to go marching over there and asking for the other kids to be quiet - so we don't.

That's just life, isn't it?

So while I can see where this article is coming from, I do believe that it is more proof of a society that is changing to make children more invisible rather than more valued.

[second baby not so easy]

"seen and not heard" saying seems to be making it ways back into society :rolleyes: