Facebook user Geralyn Amy Yeh, a mother of a 5 month old baby posted on Facebook about her experience with dealing with an unreasonable neighbour.
Yeh stated that her neighbour was frustrated with her baby’s crying and wrote a note to request her to close the door during the day. The note also urger Yeh to be more considerate.
The worse part was that the neighbour even came up and shouted and scolded her maid.
She eventually wrote a letter back to her neighbour in response to her neighbour’s feedback.
Here was what she stated in the letter.
“For infant, they can get real irritating with their high pitch screaming or crying but that’s the way they communicate and I do not have the magic to stop her from crying or make her grow up faster so that she can communicate without crying (sic),” she wrote.
She also hits back with a witty response to her neighbour, whom she assumed to have no kids at home resulting in their failure to relate to her situation.
Following the incident, Yeh wrote that she has given her 5-month-old a “stern warning”.
“I’m not sure if she quite understood it, but she did look serious after hearing it and gave a pity sad look”, she further describes.
While Yeh said that she will try to comply with her neighbour’s requests such as closing the door, she also highlighted concerns over how it could be “stuffy” and that her baby could get “cranky”, hence crying even louder and longer.
She also suggested that her neighbours close their doors instead, and added that they can consider wearing headphones “to minimise the noise.”
After apologising for the disturbance her baby’s crying may have caused her neighbour, she thanked them for the feedback. She then went on to say: “I would appreciate you not to come over to shout or scold my helper as your behaviour have scared her and my baby (sic).”
Describing her baby’s cries as “noise pollution”, she sarcastically suggested that her neighbours to contact authorities such as the National Environment Agency (NEA), Housing and Development Board (HDB) or the POLICE for other suggestions to keep the volume down.
Yeh signed off the letter, as if reaffirming her and her baby’s stance in the situation, as the “parent of the innocent child.”
