Kids screaming in garden next door!

Playing in the garden is normal as is laughing, talking and even the occasional shout, but there's no need for screeching. I personally can't listen to it. If my dc do it they're given a warning then brought in.

We used to have old people either side of us who never made any noise. It was only after they went and we had families move in either side that I realised how far sound travels when doors are open!
If you are very quiet at home, perhaps the parents don't realise how loud they are if you see what I mean.

YANBU.

When my DC were young, I would never have allowed them to be screeching in the garden. Tbh, it would have grated on ME, so I always had more consideration and empathy for my neighbours.

I actually don’t mind the noise of children playing happily in gardens, but screaming and constant shouting is not pleasant to hear.

My sympathies. The ones round me are at it on either side out the back and when they get bored they're right out the front for good measure. Balls in my garden the lot.
But the parents are all lovely, so I grit my teeth and remind myself that they're at least getting lots of exercise and being healthy. They are very screamy though.

you see , you own the patch of land but not the air space? that sort of thinking will rearrange your expectations

Move to a block of flats with communal gardens, seems everyone is using it when they want but noone bothers others how to use it or how much noise to make/not make

Only the 5th time this year? As long as its not early morning or late at night I'd let them get on with it. It's a battle to get my son off his tablet so I see kids playing outside as a positive thing.

@BallandBoe OP literally said "can't bear the idea of a full Summer of screeching kids!"

Ffs let kids play. All people do is moan. Shut your door. Same old crap every summer from MN and local groups moan moan . As others said go live where you have no neighbours. But then probably moan about cows mooing.

If someone approached me about my kids playing over excited in the garden . I would tell them to report me for the noise. 🫠

Shut the door. Put some music on. Remind yourself that you were a child once and you too enjoyed having fun at some point...

It depends what the noise is, if they are screaming I'd ask them to be a bit quiter. That's rude and the parents shouldn't allow it. I woikdnt let my DC scream outside and annoy everyone

I don't understand the fashion for kids screaming and screaming these days . As a child I was told that screaming when you're not in trouble is like the boy who cried wolf

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My dds can screech like banshees. When they get on my nerves I reign them in to ‘pipe down’. The parents really should be telling them to keep the noise down.

Maybe play some loud music like opera, they’ll probably recoil and go back inside 😂

It massively depends on if they’re actually screaming or just being normal children?
I’m always happy to hear kids playing in the garden but it’s not fair to make excessive noise. I always told my kids to be mindful of the neighbours. That’s not to say they didn’t sometimes start screeching, but when they did, I’d remind them to keep it down.

Your poor neighbours if you think it's perfectly acceptable to allow your kids to scream all day.

@thelinkisdead is teaching her children consideration for others which is to be appulauded. I doubt she's stopping her kids being kids.

I think sometimes people don't realise how loud. Last time there was a thread like this, everyone piled on saying I was unreasonable
Then I posted a video from inside my own house and everyone went "oh god no, not like that"

OP didn't say anything about screaming and screeching.

They said that the kids were playing loudly.

I have 3 boys and my neighbour told me last year that “whenever we hear your kids enter the garden we go in because we can’t bare their voices”.
my rules are that if we’re in a busy park and my kids are being loud I ask them to tone it down. But in our own safe garden environment I allow a little loud laughing and fun because it’s their safe environment. I wouldn’t let them constantly scream obvs but I encourage them to have fun and laugh as loud as possible before they get older and not want to play in the garden. Plus, if they’re playing in the garden and being kids then they’re not holding a damn controller or iPad. I won’t stop my kids having fun due to neighbours complaining about kids being kids.

I don’t think there is anything you can or should do. They are children. They make noise. If you live in close proximity to others, you have to expect this kind of thing. As others have said, I think you either close the door or move house. Sorry.

Not much you can do unless you know the parents well enough to ask them to calm them down a bit. You could put calming music on a speaker and try to focus on that, you never know it might even chill them out.

This 👆

Unfortunately, living in close proximity to others comes with upsides and downsides. The only way to avoid it is to buy a house with sufficient grounds around it to make any neighbour noise too far away to hear.

@ilovesooty

No. The poster said that screaming isn't allowed in their house at all and the kids talking loudly 'at times' is fine.

Each to their own and all that but I feel a bit sorry for the kids that seem to be on strict orders to play quietly in their own house/garden…

Go stand in your garden and scream like a pterodactyl at the top of your lungs?

If you can't beat them, join them, and all that.

You don’t approach it. They’re kids in their own garden happily playing.