Having a toddler in an Apartment

Well. I can't but I used to be once in your neighbor situation and it was HELL. I mean when you are living in apartment everyone should respect everyone and keep noises low. If you take it the other way you wouldn't enjoy having someone putting loud music late at night every night. So he doesn't like having the heavy noise of kid jumping all day long... I used to be very upset at my neighbor. There was a park at the corner. Take your kids out so they can take their energy out. That's normal your neighbor is pissed and the best solution is to take your kid out EVERYDAY. make him jump, run outside, and teach them they have to keep it slow a home. Kids can be kids but we have to help too. Kids NEEDS to be out and move.

Fortunately our neighbors downstairs don’t mind all the toddler noises but I still feel bad. Kid was born a professional upstairs neighbor, he’s got heavy ass feet for no reason. Me & dad don’t walk heavy LMFAOO We have a tiny indoor trampoline for jumping on, and we got a beanbag to act as a crash pad, & we’ve got a bunch of designated areas for climbing We also comply with the quiet hours listed in our lease.

Maybe an indoor trampoline like @Parker 又 said or a foam mat to muffle the sound?

She can move to a house if she doesn’t want to deal with neighbors that close to her. Everyone that picks an apartment needs to be realistic that something like that most likely will happen. Your toddler is allowed to jump and run in the property you are paying for 🙄

I'm in the same situation, That's part of the territory of living downstairs. I limit the hours my son makes a lot of noise to between 1pm to 4pm, and take him for walks around my complex almost every day. I'm always considerate that I have neighbors, but if you don't want to hear a child running in the daytime, you should have a house or live upstairs.

Also, thick area rugs and carpets help!

My son is almost 3 and there is a 5 year old in the apartment above us. She screams bloody murder on a nightly basis and is up all hours of the night. Even if my son does the loud excited squeal when we tickle him, I remind him we can't be that loud inside. Even if we were in a house, I would still be teaching him there is a limit on how loud you can be indoors (because this applies to a lot of places - school, restaurants, etc.). It's infuriating to be on the receiving end and hear "they're a kid, there's nothing we can do about it!" (I only comment about it during quiet hours clearly stated in the lease) Teach about inside voices, get cushioned area rugs, take them outside to get more energy out. Be courteous to your neighbors because you wouldn't want to be in their position either.

@Aurélie I live where we are getting a lot of snow. And we haven’t been able to get out of the house.

@Victoria~ we have both and she just can’t understand that she has to only jump on those things.

@Sarah except I’m an understanding person and would mind the noise. I would rather a child be allowed to play at their fullest than worry about making sure they comply to unrealistic expectations for them. That said, I do my best to limit the noise. And being that it’s winter it’s hard to take a child out with all the snow.

I just can’t imagine making a mom’s life any harder than what it already is. Yes, the noise is bothersome but what would she do if there was a obese person trying to exercise at home? My toddler runs all day long with his walker whenever we can’t go outside and that wouldn’t be a way to stop him unless I taped him on the wall 🙄 I would gift her airpods and breakfast basket to show her that Im polite 😂

I have a toddler in an apartment, we had her trampoline for jumping, thankfully our downstairs neighbors also have toddlers (I swear we are in the toddler building lol)

My aunt has to go through this with her autistic twins, which I feel bad for her. The downstairs neighbors kids make noises and they’re pretty nasty as they have bugs crawling up to her apartment(they still complain about her kids making noise) ..You could ask your Landlord for a downstairs apartment if you don’t mind moving🤷🏽‍♀️ you could ignore the neighbor bc kids will be kids🤣 (sorry🤏🏽). Also Get rugs like other comments said. (Expensive depending on how big)👀

I’m so glad I have sweet neighbors 😭 most of them have children. The people under me didn’t even get mad when water leaked through the floor from my toilet flooding they just was worried something broke and I wasn’t home! Anyways choosing to live in an apartment style you can’t expect everyone to be quiet. As long as it’s not loud ass noises especially after the noise hours it’s just a kid 🤷‍♀️ I mean I can hear my neighbors having sex sometimes and when he comes home from work he’s loud in the bathroom yea it can be annoying but oh well. I just turn the tv up a little louder and tell my fiancé “he’s so loud” lol. I chose to live in an apartment I know it’s not always gonna be quiet. That is why I chose my daughter’s room to be on the opposite side of my neighbors so she doesn’t hear them and she has white noise. Either way if it bothers them so much they shouldn’t have chose a floor apartment. They should have expected to hear ppl upstairs. That is literally why I didn’t choose that.

We moved to an upstairs with two toddlers neighbors casually complained about them running in the living room. Excited just moved in, and how the carpet had been replaced so it’s noisier “understandable” for them. We lived downstairs prior and every person had a huge dog and one would run at 5am wake up the kids but guess what we dealt with it. Because why we live in an apartment which is a communial living space. They knocked once and said kids was being too loud it was only two weeks into living here. Then they told us the previous neighbor was a drug addict and had parties and had people in and out the house all hours of the night, after that we told them would they rather have kids or have random drug addicts walking around 🤷🏻‍♀️ choose your battles. Now about two months into living here they know I work from home our schedule kids go to bed decent hour and they brought them over valentines gifts. Safe to say they’ve grown on the neighbors lol

Our downstairs neighbor moved out this month. But last month she was hitting our floor and then came pounding at our door because the banging was so loud and pictures were falling off the walls....our now 13 month old was crawling around chasing our chihuahua. I just simply told her that our baby was crawling around. When she tried to push back and say it was the dogs running and that it happens at all hours and really early in the morning, I told her I wasn't sure what she was hearing because our baby sleeps in and isn't up until about 10 every day. We try to keep our dogs(i know not kid but right now they are the loud ones) running and rough play to a minimum so they don't bother our neighbors-did this even before she came and complained. With our baby there isn't much we can do right now. There is no carpet except in the bedrooms. We are looking for an area rug for the living room but that will only help a little and we want it more for cushion when baby falls as he is trying to figure out walking now.

@Summer I’m so stressed about it that every little sound my ear focuses on to see if it’s too loud.

Been both... as a mum it's hard as kids being kids not much you can do always tantrums and playing around etc... can make the situation even more stressful with pressure to have them be quiet. But I guess if they've got lots of energy you'll just have to take them out if it's appropriate to. But if you don't already make sure you've got carpets, underlay, rugs etc makes the sound much quieter. As neigbour at bottom I do understand the frustration IF it's when there trying to sleep but in the day it never bothered me as I could just ignore it tv on, music on, quite easy to drown out.

@Leanna what is underlay?

We lived in an apartment with 2 toddlers. My downstairs neighbor was a very old man so he didn’t really care it seemed like lol. But I always say the person below chose to live in an apartment knowing that they were gonna be kids living there… If they dont like being so close to people and sharing walls and floors then the person can rent a house…

Rugs, everywhere and foam pads in play area help. Non slip slippers for toddler. As much outside energy expenditure as possible, teaching to only throw soft balls and toys and uhm cookies for neighbor 🤷🏻‍♀️

I live on the first floor and heat my upstairs neighbor constantly. They thump hard on the floor and sound like they are bowling upstairs most days. I dare them to complain about us 😂😂😂 They just gave us a birthday present for my son who just turned 2

Ah sorry in the UK it's standard to have under carpet - it's basically another layer before a carpet goes on top to insulate also helps with noise reduction :)