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Perhaps it's just me getting old, but what's with this new craze of having a kids trampoline in your back garden?
We will live in pleasant, suburban area where detached four bedroom houses and big(ish) gardens are the norm as a result we fully expect there to be kids knocking around and a modicum of noise emanating from said kids.
Bouncing up and down peering over the fence...
We came home the other day having done a hard day's graft at the office, looking forward enjoy one of those rare summer evenings and to a nice relaxing alfresco dinner, to find a rather large construction protruding over the fence between our house and our next door neighbours. Fine, says me until two rather large and extremely noisy children were bouncing up and down peering over the fence watching me as I prepared our dinner in the kitchen.
Kids will be kids trampoline or not, I said to myself; despite feeling somewhat uncomfortable and continued to ignore the raucous laughter and gawking, half wishing I was their age again!! That was until we sat down for our nice alfresco dinner, during which the kids continued to jump higher and higher and higher whilst looking over at us, laughing loudly, pointing at us and commenting to us on what we were eating in VERY loud voices. This needless to say left us feeling discomfited enough for us to waste the rare summer evening and go indoors to finish our dinner.
What I want to know is:-
Where has this craze come from all of a sudden?
Why oh why do parents insist on putting up these trampoline right next to their neighbours fence or a road?
Does anyone else feel that trampolines are an intrusion of privacy or is it just me? and...
What should I do?
By: Lottie
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Ps. will say we are so much happier that we've moved out to the country and neighbors aren't so close.
Sitting in my lounge this week looked up to see a body of a 9 year old hanging over my fence , not worth asking politely for them not to do it as mother will just be abusive the fence is getting broken and I am getting very stressed, the house is rented , has anyone got any tips and please don’t say move
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Surely it's obvious to any functioning adult that the core problem isn't little 9 year old Daniel and 7 year old Leah bouncing on the trampoline behind your back fence, it's the fact that parents now are so timid and scared that they've taken it onto themselves to turn their back garden into a literal playground and walled their kids in from the outside world.
The only way to fix family homes being filled with trampolines and other oversized toys and the accompanying noise is by removing the ludicrously overblown fear of the-man-in-a-white-van lurking at every street corner that has gripped parents for the last 20 years.
Comments saying you wish harm on children or that you want them to be injured by the trampoline because you're seeing "their stupid faces bobbing up and down" over your garden fence is you providing an extremely childish response to what is an adult/parental problem. Grow up.