At around 4:30 p.m. or 5 p.m., I saw one of the Banging Brood out on the quad, with the eldest sister keeping a watchful eye. The younger girl was tossing a tennis ball around.
So what can be the logically deduced from this fact?
1) That the mother has been lying when she's been blaming the thumping/banging noises on anything other than her kids. (Let's not forget when I pointed out how sound waves travel through a wall that she admitted her kids were doing it.)
2) That the real source of the thumps/bangs has been from the tennis ball being thrown against the wall by one or more members of the Banging Brood.
3) That the mother couldn't possibly be at home asleep during the day and working at night. (My father worked the night shift and slept during the day. He would have taken a belt to my backside for waking him up in such a brattish manner.)
4) That very same younger girl has been skipping school. She's the same one I saw coming back home in the morning on the second day of school, when she was supposed to be at school.
There's so many simple solutions to this problem. For one, the ball can be taken away and locked up until either "Mommy" or the eldest sister can watch them play outside. For another, the kids can be taught quiet activities to do while inside:
1) Hand sewing
2) Crocheting
3) Knitting
4) Drawing (on paper, not on walls)
5) Reading books
6) Playing with modeling clay/Playdoh
Thing is, "Mommy" is too gutless to discipline her kids and show them the quieter things they could be doing. It's not like they can't find out how to do most of this through YouTube or something. Granted, some of the younger children may need someone to show them personally, but it could be done. Well, it could be done with normal children that can settle down long enough to learn things.
