AITA for teaching some kids about “the boy who cried wolf”?

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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/Negative-Pin4757 on 2023-10-06 20:51:02.

So I have some neighbourhood kids that live around me and they are absolutely feral. They run around screaming and beating the crap out of one another, curse adults out, and generally are just little terrors. The rest of the kids around are gems, but this set of siblings are totally out of control.

Yesterday at 5 am, they were at it again,straight up shrieking in their backyard. Their yard is adjacent to my room. I went outside and said “have you ever heard the story of the boy who cried wolf? He screamed and screamed for no reason, and eventually nobody came to help when he needed it because they thought he wasn’t being honest.” I then went back in and slept for a couple more hours.

Around 7:30, I woke up to the kids’ mom outside my door, knocking like her life depended on it. When I answered, she yelled at told me I scarred her kids for life and said that I was out of line with her kids and that I was never allowed to speak to them again. I told her that if I couldn’t speak to her kids or her when they were being loud at 5 am, I’d just call the cops. She said that she couldn’t control when her kids woke up and that she shouldn’t be punished for it. I agreed, but added that I also shouldn’t be punished because the kids she chose to have wake up at 5.

If it were after 7 am, or the kids were super young, I would give them a pass, but the kids are 6 and 9. Maybe I’m bonkers, but that seems like a reasonable age to know about quiet play. If it only happened every so often, I wouldn’t mind. Kids are kids. But this is daily and I am tired of it.