Part I of this can be found at http://www.dizzy-dee.com/comedy/pregnancy-tips-for-dummies

Now, two years later she’s a toddler, nearly 3 years old – and she’s at that “terrible-two’s” stage where she screams at the top of her voice when things don’t go her way, and sometimes just because she can. I can understand this, and I even have a bit of sympathy for the parents.

However, I do not enjoy being woken up on a SUNDAY morning before 7am by this screaming little girl. She carried on screaming and crying until I eventually pulled myself out of bed, and went to check if she wasn’t perhaps trapped underneath something, or if her parents had maybe tied her to a pole – she didn’t even blink when she saw me looking at her, and it was only once I started asking her what the matter was when her mother came to take her inside the house. *sigh*

Now, besides this little one and her quite obvious two year old type mood swings, we also seem to have gotten a whole cricket team of primary school boys who play cricket right in our driveway.

I feel too bad to chase them away, but today I had to close the windows because they were just too noisy!!

I don’t want to be an old hag, but sometimes it feels like I’m living ON school grounds, and all the yelling is going to most definitely drive me nuts!!

Up till now I have managed to remain patient, but I’m slowly but surely starting to get irritated. I know, I know… Its not nice, and I’m trying really hard to put myself in their shoes. Growing up in a complex cannot be easy – heck, I grew up in a huge garden, and had all that space to myself!!

How do you feel about noisy or even intrusive kids? Is it one’s right to have peace and quiet? Or is it more important to just let them be kids?