My children disturb poor old lady's sleep.
By johnpillai
@johnpillai (2082)
Germany
April 2, 2011 6:31pm CST
We are living upstairs. we rent out our down stair for an old lady. As she is living under us Her sleep is disturbed by my children. She sometimes complains that my children make much noise. yes I accept that. Actually my children don't make much noise. But the way they walk in the house is the problem. As they are still small they run and spring in the house. this vibrate the flour and make the old lady disturbed. How many of you are being disturbed by small children like this.
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@hardworkinggurl (37063)
• United States
8 Apr 11
I live downstairs from a young couple upstairs with a 2 year old. My having two children I understand there is no way they will be silent at all times. However this one is unusual because the child runs/stomps at 2am or 3am and I wonder why on earth they have the child awake that late. We have nicely spoken to them to no avail and have spoken to the landlord.
Not so much complaining about the child but their music and TV playing full blast at the same time too.
@johnpillai (2082)
• Germany
9 Apr 11
Does the man comes late night from work. my hubby comes late night after work. He also watch TV at midnights. But with less noise. But can't be helped. after coming home he can't go to bed directly. he has his dinner at the time. And he must do his toileting some times bathing. I believe these things may disturb the lady's sleep. I am sorry for that. But can't be helped. Bt the lady never complains about my hubby's activities. But my children??
@johnpillai (2082)
• Germany
9 Apr 11
my children are school going children. They can't be awake that night. Normally German parents are very strict to send their children to bed at 8 pm. my children go to bed around 9 pm. but today I did a good job. I did so many changes in our rooms.
I hope the disturbance will reduce a lot. I respect old people. she is living alone there. she loves me very much. we have a good understand. she is a bit sick also.
@hardworkinggurl (37063)
• United States
9 Apr 11
I believe the man works a day shift, because it is sort of silent during the day. But as soon as 5pm rolls around and weekends they are up really late during the weekday and badly during the weekend.
I normally do not mind noise but the loud music is really bad and sometimes I wonder if they forget they have it on because the same song pounding so loud. It gets really bad sometimes.
As for the lady complaining about your children, she must not like children in general because if yours are running during the day time that is understandable, there is no way to prevent that. If it were 2 - 3 in the morning then she would have reason. So she must be a really fussy lady.
I hope she calms down because children are a blessing and to hear them running means they are a blessing indeed. Just a bit annoying if at 3am lol
@cream97 (29087)
• United States
8 Apr 11
Hi. johnpillai. Your situation sounds a lot like how mines used to be! I used to live in an apartment upstairs above my neighbor. This guy, his girlfriend and her son was staying underneath us. Well, the guy would bump his ceiling every time that he heard a loud noise coming from our apartment. My kids can be walking. Or my two year old daughter at that time, would take a sprint to run. You know it is very hard for kids to just stay quiet and stay seated all day long. It is just impossible! He used his broom to bump our ceiling constantly and sometimes it would scare me and my kids too. It was horrible.
I had to live like this for about, six to seven months, until we finally moved out in October of last year too. It was a mess. I was so stressed out about this, I really was. Nothing we did made him happy. He was just a miserable young man. He had to be about 36 or 37 years old. Not only that, he was a stalker and he watched me a lot. I had to call the police on him about three times because he kept on hitting his ceiling. I got so tired of it. My suggestion to you is just to move out. No matter what you may do or how hard that you try to make it work, it just won't work at all. You have kids and kids will not always stay quiet. You have to live your life and staying above someone with kids, especially, is not the way to have a fulfilling life.
I had to live like this for about, six to seven months, until we finally moved out in October of last year too. It was a mess. I was so stressed out about this, I really was. Nothing we did made him happy. He was just a miserable young man. He had to be about 36 or 37 years old. Not only that, he was a stalker and he watched me a lot. I had to call the police on him about three times because he kept on hitting his ceiling. I got so tired of it. My suggestion to you is just to move out. No matter what you may do or how hard that you try to make it work, it just won't work at all. You have kids and kids will not always stay quiet. You have to live your life and staying above someone with kids, especially, is not the way to have a fulfilling life.@johnpillai (2082)
• Germany
9 Apr 11
This happens in Germany also. Knocking by the broom stick is a rude way. I am living in my own house. and the old lady rent out my ground flour. I don't want the lady go away. Because she pays us well with no problem. Most of the landlords are complaining, that the tenants are not paying properly.
@johnpillai (2082)
• Germany
9 Apr 11
My mother is also like you. she can sleep anywhere. she can sleep when she is among about 50 people. I think it is a god's gift. But disturbing others sleep is not at all good. I try my level best to keep my children with less noise.
@Graceekwenx (3160)
• Philippines
3 Apr 11
Hi John.
I feel for the old lady as she, like I, have difficulty getting to sleep. I face the same troubles with my nephews. My sister's family lives in our house as well and whenever the kids walk on the stairs, they make loud stomping noises as if they are behemoths! I honestly find it disrespectful when one stomps on the stairs when you can walk on it silently. Simply put... Manners.
John. I hope you find some solution on how to minimize the noise the kids make. In my nephews case, it is more on manners... admittedly, they do lack discipline. And as you mentioned here, your kids are not really noisy, it is just that sounds on floor. I would suggest that you ask them to walk really carefully or wear footwear that can muffle sounds... i dont know how you do it but it is something that you cannot ignore especially if it disturbing someone's sleep or health in that matter.
@johnpillai (2082)
• Germany
3 Apr 11
Thank you for your kind advice. I will try this. you know getting ready the children for school is a big tension for every mother. Like that bringing to bed is also a big tension for mothers. giving dinner; making them to clean their teeth, let them finish their toilet needs checking their school bags. realy it is a big tension. These activities make a bit noise.
@Janexiao (173)
• China
3 Apr 11
It´s really a little complicated. Making noise is the nature of small children, they are full of energy to be so active.If the noise bothers the old lady too much, maybe she can think about renting another place.I am not afraid of being disturbed, at the back of my apartment there is a highway, you can imagine how noisy it is, hehe, i am just used to it.
@neenie (343)
• United States
3 Apr 11
I'm not sure of the layout of the house, but are there places your children can be thats not above her bedroom at night? Like if their bedrooms are above her's, can you try to keep them in the living room until they go to bed? This poor lady may be a little easy-going about it now.. but it sounds like she is your landlord. Not a good idea to make the landlord angry!
