A mum has been slammed as "rude" for enabling her adult children's behaviour after recently moving to a "rural" area.
The woman and her children recently moved to a "detached house in five acres", and her kids invited people back to their house to make friends. She revealed that the group were "singing local folk songs and chatting" into the night.
The mum took to parenting forum Mumsnet to ask if she was being "unreasonable" after receiving a complaint from a neighbour.
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She wrote: "I recently moved to a new area with my adult children, a detached house in five acres, I do have two neighbours quite close to my house. My kids are sociable and keen to make friends in rural area, they went to the local village pub and invited 3/4 people back to our house (I didn't hear anything, it's a Georgian house and the walls are thick!)
"They were sitting outside in the courtyard singing local folk songs and chatting. This evening my neighbour came round to complain about the noise of singing and chatting after midnight on Friday.
"I apologised, said my kids were perhaps a bit over zealous and keen to make friends and maybe got carried away on a summers evening on this one occasion, and that I would speak to them and tell them to be mindful of our neighbours."
She continued: "Do I tell my kids they can't have people back after the pub, am I being unreasonable? Is what they did unacceptable as a one off?
"The neighbour said he drinks in the local pub and had heard my kids were 'rounding people up" to come back to our house! Which sounded a bit stalkerish tbh. Help and advice welcomed."
Before long, the post had received dozens of replies from fellow Mumsnet users. There were a range of opinions about whether the wrong was in the wrong or whether it was "no big deal".
One said: "I think you were naïve letting kids make your household first impression at the local pub...I'd invite the neighbours round to redo their first impression of you."
A second argued: "Loud partying after midnight is a bit unreasonable. If it's annoying people five acres away."
A third agreed: "Yes unreasonable for them to be making noise that late. When our neighbours did this I emailed the letting agents to complain."
"Outside noise is pretty rude after 11pm, considering you could just move the party inside and not inconvenience your neighbours," a fourth echoed.
However, others felt the neighbour was overreacting. One posted: "Thinking about it a bit more, if it is actually a one off (or a very occasional thing) then I think it's fine. My neighbours are lovely and quiet, and if they happened to have a party one night and get a bit carried away then it wouldn't be a big deal."
"I would forget about a one off but if it was ongoing prepare to have problems with your neighbours," a second warned.
A third commented: "Kids made noise. Neighbour complained. Kids stopped. No big deal. In the future they can move to make noise inside. I really don't think this requires anymore action."
"The neighbour sounds miserable to be honest," said a fourth, while a fifth shared: "Your neighbours are idiots. Imaging living rurally and objecting to hearing "local folk songs" on a Friday night. The world has gone mad."
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