Why do you have an apartment you ask? What a ridiculous question. Why do you? Your bitch about people living in apartment buildings with noisy kids pissed me off. It was whiny, self-centered, and discriminatory. If you’re so bothered by your noisy neighbors why don’t you go get a mortgage already? Probably cause you can’t afford it. So why don’t you shut your face already and suck it up?? Stop picking on a vulnerable parent with a noisy kid. —Go fuck yourself already
This article appears in Jun 9-15, 2016.
I totally agree with this. A parent can’t force there kids to quiet all the time just cause some dummy moved into a building that clearly is child friendly. If you move into a building that allows small children, better be prepared to hear kid noise. And if you don’t like kid noise suck it up and move to a quiet building rather than acting like a whiny bitch.
All apartments are “child-friendly” as human rights legislation dictates you cannot have adult-only buildings. But I have to agree with the OOB; parents need to take control over their children – it’s a shared space (the building) and no one had the right to annoy other neighbours. They can play outside and run and screech their little heads off; NOT inside.
I dunno if this is really an apartment or indoors issue anyway. I live in a house, and my neighbours have two kids, and they built a playground, and there are regularly 6 or 7 kids in the yard, and the parents exercise absolutely no control over them whatsoever. The kids are always screaming at the tops of their lungs (literally having screaming contests.) And these aren’t “vulnerable” people with crazy out-of-control lives – they are upper middle class people who can afford stay-at-home mommies, etc.
I really can’t believe the parents’ thoughtlessness.
Earplugs are always an option. Gerkin pickles make excellent earplugs for the nasally-disabled.
Oh I’m certain there are two sides to this story.
If a mother and child were living in a house with relatives (the child’s grandparents for example), what would the expectation be? I suspect that there would be a limit as to how much noise the relatives put up with. And I look at living in an apartment as I would any shared accommodations situation. You have to be respectful of the people you are living with. Same goes for tenants sharing a building.
Everyone has a right to peace and quiet. Needless noise no matter what the time of day that disturbs the quality of life of any individual is against a law or a by-law I am certain. The problem that we have in this day and age is that people think that they can do whatever they please whenever they want and that no one should say a damn thing about it and suck it up. Now that same person may not feel the same if and when their neighbor’s kid gets a set of drums and likes to practice at dawn or dusk for example. Guess who would likely be the one to complain now? A little respect can go a long way to making this world a better place for everyone. Alas this may prove to be too much for the entitled portion of our population.