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My son has a large trampoline in our back garden and the neighbours are getting increasingly annoyed at the noise and the heads bobbing over the garden fence. The other day one neighbour complained that while we were out our son and a bunch of friends were behaving dangerously and that we should ban them. I suspect she's just fed up with the noise.

I'm torn between thinking "stuff the neighbours" and trying to limit the trampoline. But I'd rather he was doing that than zapping people on the Playstation. What should I do?

Does your son understand the annoyance coming from over the fence or does he not think it's an issue?

What sort of dangerous behaviour..?

AMuse wrote:

Understand? He's a teenager - he knows everything and understands no one!

Absolutely - teenagers have a self-centred world view! Anything that contradicts that is totally unreasonable.

Dangerous behaviour as in jumping out of the bathroom window onto the trampoline, because it would be fun, and climbing on the bit of pitched roof outside the fron tbedroom windows, to see who was knocking on the front door!

I think the neighbour was genuinely worried about having to rush someone to hospital, though I don't think it was actually as dangerous as she thought.