Kids screaming in garden next door!

She said screaming in the title and screeching in the penultimate sentence.

Children can have fun without having to screech all the time.

My neighbours with the screeching daughter moved last year and it's been wonderful every since. She was 8 so no excuses. Screech, shriek, screech was all you ever heard.

Yes this is an amazing idea and will definitely not make you look completely terrible.

People have a bit of a nerve having a pop at other peoples parenting when they, a grown adult, come up with ideas like this.

Yeah well the adults who want to make sure the whole street can hear their party are annoying too.

As are the tradesmen with their loud music.

As for garden cinemas...

Noise pollution is a significant problem, and can cause health problems. Just have a little consideration and keep the noise down.

Agreed

They don’t have to scream though. It’s obnoxious. I’d put the hose on them.

You wouldn't and if a neighbour did that to my kids, the hose would be through their open door.

They won't be out in their garden all the time fgs. You'll get an idea of their favourite garden playing times, then just avoid your kitchen at these times. It's their garden, they're not doing anything offensive, they're kids, be more tolerant.

Actually they are kids , screaming while playing is nit only common but healthy .

Just go out and screech back at them.

She's said screaming in the title, yet clarified by this she means "happy and noisy" playing FIVE times with otherwise good relations (so assumes they aren't these terrible parents with feral constant goings on that some imagine)

No of course you wouldn't put the hose on them, stop showing off.

I'd rather live next to screeching kids than some of you aggressive lot but since it's all imaginary maybe you aren't so bad:

You really wouldn’t, you’re talking shite..

Is that you neighbour at number 8?

I'm not sure what you think should happen. The kids don't play in their garden? Is that the resolution you're expecting?

In all honesty I suggest you close your open door because that's within your control and a reasonable thing for you to do.

You can complain it then gets too hot in your kitchen but then you want the kids to stop playing so you can be comfortable. Seems mightily selfish.

@grievinggirlneedsadvice I can't be arsed reading your essay. Suffice to say, as per my first post, just yell at them to shut up if they're too annoying.

They don’t have to scream though. It’s obnoxious. I’d put the hose on them.

Anyway OP, once I said something to my neighbour we haven't had a problem since. Got a bunch of flowers delivered as an apology too...although I suspect that was probably the nan that lives there also, rather than the mother.
It is quite an awkward thing to broach, but it just wasn't fair anymore - we couldn't use our garden because of how they were using theirs.
I made sure that I expressed that I wasn't expecting silence, I just wanted a bit more of a happy medium.

Move to the country with no neighbors, kids play , deal with it .

Because the OP has said this has been five times in three months, so yes agreeing with the OP would in my opinion make anyone a fun sponge.
Others may have bought in tales where children were making noise for much longer periods of time- not allowing the neighbours to have any peace in their garden at all- that is another matter. I am talking about the OP and in my opinion she is unreasonable and not being considerate of her neighbours and the fact those children are allowed to have fun and let off steam in their garden and that she has ample time for peace.

She didnt say they had screamed/shrieked, she just said they had played happily and loudly

For goodness sake. It's right there in the thread title. Kids screaming in garden next door

Once again, occasional shrieks, totally normal, that's not what this thread is about. I don't know why you're so determined to try and make out that people on this thread are total fun sponges when you're describing normal everyday happenings that most people would have no problems with.

and unless she was screaming all day long at unearthly hours I would not stop her

Some people do let their kids do this for hours at a time.

Yes, but you ignored the thread title.

I'm not quite sure where you are going with your comments to me.
In all my comments I have addressed the fact that the OP is being unreasonable, not everyone. This is based on the what they OP has told us about the children she is living next to. The children the OP has mentioned played happily and loudly on five occasions this spring/summer, thus we can assume they have not been screaming their heads off day after day.
Based on this, I believe the OP is unreasonable, and all the other 'children should be seen and not heard' posters that have been horrified by these five occasions. I don't believe we should have this attitude towards children, and that OP as a grown adult can overlook this occasional noise.
Never have I mentioned children making shrieking or screaming noises day after day all day- that is another matter. As I mentioned in a previous post we should live and let live, so just as OP can provide space for children to make a noise, children need to give adults opportunity for peace in their garden. However, the OP has ample opportunity for peace given that her neighbours children have only been noisy on five occasions, so in this case she is unreasonable and should just get on with it and let them have their fun.

@grievinggirlneedsadvice . Again, many a post. Not really just referring to the OP. Living beside screaming kids, I'd have to disagree that it's normal. Actually, you'll not from my post, telling them to be quiet works because, yes, they're kids.

@IAmTheWalrus85 no , your honour: we've moved on from the OP, though.

Did the OP say they’re ‘literally screaming their heads off’?