Kids screaming in garden next door!

Same. There is literally no need for constant (if any) screaming and screeching whilst playing. What an earth do they need to scream for?

our next door neighbours house is currently up for sale. It's empty at the moment as they have moved into a care home. We have 2 sections to our garden - "upper" level is a patio/grass area, then there are 2 steps down to a slightly shaded area - this is our kids play area - it has climbing frame, play house and trampoline but it backs directly onto our neighbours garden.

I do wonder if sometimes people look around the house, see the play area and think christ no thanks 😮

My kids absolutely love it, but they're in bed by 7pm so no late night screaming here, but during the day they can play out as much as they want, but if they were excessively screaming I would tell them to tone it down a bit.

Kids are just being kids though, it's been a long winter for them too when they've not had much time to play out in their garden

That ^^

I don't object to laughing/talking/playing
Screeching and screaming at full volume where I can't use my own garden without earplugs because the paddling pool is a metre away from my window...
I keep the windows shut which is pleasant(!) in summer so I can work or customers complain, but I don't use my garden in summer unless it's very early morning
To add to that, they don't even live there but just use the garden all bloody summer

10 and 7 years old, a morning and it's during the holidays. I can't see what they're doing wrong. Just doing what we all did at their age.

I have 2 children, my neighbour that backs on to me has children of the same age.

The noise level from their garden was horrific. It was constant, it was loud, and it wasn't just play noise, it was arguing, crying, fighting.

I knew their names and the names of several of their friends within the Spring half term because they were constantly being repeated, and at no stage did the mother try and get things to a lower level. In the end, I said something to them.

Absolutely everyone has a right to enjoy their own home and garden, but them enjoying theirs in the way that they were meant that we couldn't enjoy ours.

No one expects silence from their neighbours. My children make noise, my dog will bark, that's life with neighbours. But I am considerate. If the kids are screeching and arguing they get told to stop, or they'll have to come in. If the dog keeps barking and won't stop he gets sent in. I don't want to hear it and I chose to have them in my life, why would my neighbours want to?

Noise is normal. constant, excessive noise day in day out is selfish.

The neighbour’s kids are playing in the garden, during school holidays and as kids do, make noises and I presume not screaming at the top of their lungs for hours for no reason… close your door and turn on some music, they’re doing nothing wrong

My neighbours are very considerate though and I hear the mum saying that we don't want to hear their constant bickering and she does send them in if they don't stop

Not in my experience, parents used to say stop screaming and use your voice now parents never pull their kids up on it.

Not much you can do about it except close the door and use earplugs. I wouldn’t complain about children making a noise.

You are counting? Only 5 times this year doesn't seem much to me

You're lucky it's only the 5th time this year.

Every day for me. They are actually 100yds away but I can hear them in my sitting room with all the door and windows closed.

We used to have such nice neighbours when we moved in. Sadly no more

Nonsense.

Some kids are 'screechers'. There have always been 'screechers'. Annoying as they are, they've always been there!

Are they actually "screaming"? I think a lot of people say that when it's normal kid noise. Honestly, if they are constantly screaming in the genuine sense, I'd be worried.

We have only ever bought detached houses with no immediate neighbours as I don't like the risk of lots of noise (parties, etc.), but kids playing wouldn't bother me.

Foster parents going out and leaving their charges.

How old were the kids?

You made a point of mentioning it, so you obviously felt it wasn't appropriate for them to be left unattended. Presumably you reported them to the authorities?

Why? She's not expecting other than reasonable consideration. Just no prolonged screaming. She's not stopping them laughing and talking.

I just don’t agree that children should be allowed to make as much noise as they like. I allow my kids to play in the garden, laugh, chat, call over to one another, but any screaming and screeching they are told to stop and come inside.

No psychological harm or sad / withdrawn kids so far as far as I can tell.

Seriously, I feel kids don't actually talk anymore- they just scream.

Move house to where you have no neighbours.
It's not fair to expect children not to have fun in their garden when it is warm and during the school holidays especially.

I guess you are new to Mumsnet, there will be an influx of these threads now the weather is warming up

I had kids myself and brought up two gc's as well. Always kept an eye on the noise levels, no early morning, late noise and tbh they did not do the screaming thing. But a family bought a second home near us and my God, I have never heard anything like it. Parties in the shared courtyard until gone midnight, screaming shouting, fires. Next morning it would begin again at first light around 6 am. Constant screaming, kicking balls over and even using a bat to hit stones into our garden. Parents seemed to be in their late fifties, early sixties and they were foster parents. But they were totally hostile people. The kids even told us they went out and left them. Hmmm. Anyway, long story short, when they sold up it was our turn to have a party.

If you say the parents are okay, you could have a polite word but I don't hold out a lot of hope.

We live in an increasingly intolerant society where we are forced to live on top of eachother, but can't actually stand eachother and all want our own space and peace. That world doesn't actually exist except from islands in the middle of nowhere and the people who already have that life all want to live in the intolerant society instead.

Sometimes when you live next to other humans there's going to be noise that irritates you at times you don't want to hear it.

Oh for the love of god. They have every right to be out in the garden, making as much noise as they please considering they’re children and we hardly get the nicest weather (assuming you are UK based)

either shut the door, or wear headphones.

YABU

Give them all iPads as gifts, then you can moan about them having too much screen time as well?

Your poor kids