As you can imagine, as a mother of seven, Raquel Davis has her hands full, especially at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now Davis is not only a mother of seven, but also a mother of seven who is at home 24/7.

That is why she has always encouraged playing outside. Most of the time the children went ice skating in the neighborhood. And as most adults know, it can get pretty rowdy when seven kids get together.

Sadly, Davis’ neighbors are affected by all this new noise, claiming they can hear kids indoors loud and clear. Sometimes they said inappropriate words, which annoyed the neighbors even more.

In fact, the neighbors were so angry with the kids that they called the police several times without going to Davis first — and I was shocked.

“Now that my kids and the police are called in, I don’t really know how to fix this if they’re just skating,” Davis said.

Since the kids only skated during the day, Davis couldn’t understand why this was so important. “I didn’t know it wasn’t good for kids to skateboard outside,” she said.

After many complaints, Davis asked her children to calm down. But the neighbors continued to complain, and Davis was content. After all, they were children. Kids just skate on a public street. What did their neighbors expect?

She felt she had no choice but to show some passive aggressiveness to her neighbors and hang a giant sign in her yard. The sign reads, “This neighborhood is full of Karen.”

“I felt like this was my son’s birthday party. They went skateboarding and I think I was the last straw. The last. I don’t know what to do, so I hung up the sign,” Davis said.

The neighbors weren’t too happy about it, especially the people who didn’t complain about Davis’s kids.

“These guys have moved in, and it’s basically an ‘animal house’ in the neighborhood. There’s no sense of noise control,” said a neighbor, Bruce Foster. ‘It’s like running a garden here. This is a neighborhood. It’s not the garden. The people who live here have not deliberately moved to live next to the park.’

But Davis felt she had no choice—what else could she do? “That’s why I got in because I don’t know what else to do. I don’t know who’s calling. I’m holding my children in the dark past. I don’t know what to do,” she said.

Watch the video below to learn more about the situation.

What would you do in Davis’ situation? Have you ever had noisy neighbors? How did you mediate the situation?

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