Kids screaming in garden next door!

Move house because you can't be bothered to tell your kids to stop screaming? You're having a fucking laugh.

Another one who doesn't parent her kids.

800 children will indeed make a lot of noise (that's a massive Primary school BTW!).
The playing noise of a bunch of kids is very different to just a few children screaming. If one of my children wanted to speak to me when they were out and I was in, I would expect them to come in and call me, not just scream MUMMY from the garden.

Perfectly put, @aperolspritzbasicbitch.

I love it when I hear the local kids playing outside - I live in Scotland, so it’s a treat when the weather is good enough for them to play out - but all our neighbours are considerate, and there isn’t lots of constant screeching or screaming.

It’s about consideration all round - I don’t expect silence, but I do appreciate the neighbours’ being considerate about noise.

If the dog was experiencing severe separation anxiety or being mistreated then it wouldn't be OK. But a dog that is going in and out the house, barking as a result of stimulation? Yes, suck it up.
Back to the children - I live just down the road from a primary school of 800 pupils. At break times I am consistently incredulous at just how loud they can be. But it is just what children do, isn't it? It's part of living next door to other people that you hear them behave normally. For adults that's probably watching sport on the TV, and for kids it's screaming on the trampoline.

If they get upset with a polite and courteous approach (conversation not phone call or note), then they are not the kind/nice neighbours you think they are.

Don't be a doormat.

Why should I have to wear headphones? So the children can scream and yell and shriek as much as they want until... is there a cut off age?
Part of living is being considerate of other people, not letting your children be so loud your neighbours is wearing noise cancelling headphones
If someone blasted music constantly or a dog barked all the time people would complain at that but provided they're under what, 10 years old, it's absolutely fine?

Complaints when kids are on screens, complaints when kids are outdoors.

If you don't like neighbours then shut your door/wear headphones/move somewhere with no neighbours.

It doesn't sound like they were out playing at 10pm last night so I don't understand what the issue is.

Absolutely this, my kids are grown up adults but when they were younger if they started screaming or arguing they got told to turn the volume right down, the neighbours don't want to hear it!

Buy some chalk for them, that shuts kids up.

show them how to draw a target and concentrate on getting a stone in the middle.
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Those saying the OP should suck it up, would you say the same if it was dogs barking? After all that'd be dogs just being dogs.

Characterising children screaming as a 'to hell with everyone else' attitude is absolute hyperbole. There's also no mention of 'long periods of time' in the OP, so you've exaggerated there again. Not to mention that children don't scream for long periods of time, unless your idea of a long period is half an hour of on and off noise.
Are you sure you have read my and OP's posts correctly?

Yes my last house was like that. 6 kids next door shrieking from dawn until dusk. I loathed the little shits.
Parents couldn't care less and they were constantly after their sodding ball.
I moved far far away and my new house is a row of four with elderly people only no kids.
Its absolute bliss. My previous house was supposed to be my happy ever after home but they basically shoved me out.

Read the full thread?
Yes, I played outside as a child. If I screamed, a parent would come out and say "scream once more and you'll be inside, you're annoying the neighbours and me"....

Well op kids are kids, the weather is beautiful, it's healthy to be outside.

Did you not play outside as a kid?

I just yelled over the fence at my neighbours screaming kids to shut it, used their names , and they did. They can laugh and carry on as much as they like, but standing on the trampoline screaming, no. It's fine, just yell. It's language they understand.

Indeed. We’ve got a weekend dad where we live. The mother drops them off on a Friday and basically we “have them” all weekend running round throwing stuff everywhere in the street whilst he’s indoors.

Why do people insist that children don't screech and scream?

Some really do - our previous set of small boy and slightly less small girl neighbours, the girl would scream, over and over. Proper ear bleeding, blood curdling, 'i am being murdered' top of her lungs screaming/screeching to see how loud she could do it (I assume).

Ten times worse when her girl cousins were round as they would then compete (yep, 'I know, lets see who can scream loudest'... 'ooh, I can scream for longer, lets see how long we can scream for'...)

More tantrums and dramatics if she was playing with her brother, either because he'd got what she wanted or from him, because she'd pushed him over/thumped him etc - slightly less irritating.

Possibly worse was the over loud performative parenting from Dad, who only had one game.. football, where he would shout GOAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLL over... and over... and over...and over...

And they were outside ALL the time, unless it was absolutely heaving down, they were outside (because as I finally found out, if kept in they broke stuff. Multiple TV's, mirrors, windows, household stuff..) Even when it was damp and freezing cold, they'd be out.

It can be horrible to live next to, particularly in my case where I work from my dining room next to the patio doors, need the doors open in summer or we'll all melt and I cannot work elsewhere or out of the house.

I understand tolerating normal day to day noise - right now I can hear the other next door telling her relatives a tale of what happened today - I now know this tale off by heart pretty much as shes told it to four other relatives over the phone already (not hyperbole at all!). I can hear someone revving a twat-car over the back in the new build estate, at least two people have music going, someone else is mowing their lawn...

And the former neighbours now live half a street away and I can STILL HEAR DAD AND THE KIDS right now (albeit, if the wind direction changes it'll be a lot fainter... fortunately!).

When my kids were little, I would always tell them if their noise levels went up. I didn’t want to listen to screeching any more than my neighbours.

Playing noise is fine, screeching is just awful.

Sadly, your neighbours might be oblivious or selfish or twats.

It is far more selfish to expect everyone surrounding you in life to occupy absolutely no space in the world so that you do not feel their presence. It's as much the children's neighbourhood, space and world as it is yours darling

Oh the irony.

What's ironic is that many parents of those' children are just children' and outraged that others might complain at the unpleasantness of the noise their kids make are often those who send their kids in the back garden for hours whilst they hide in the front room for a bit of peace and quiet!

I agree with this. Children out playing during the day and making normal level noise with the occasional shriek is fine. But children screaming constantly, kicking balls up against neighbours walls over and over, or still out making noise late at night is annoying and inconsiderate.

Ok so what would you do if you were this parent then, genuinely open to opinions on this…
boys of 3 and 6 years old, eldest has ASD both are loud kids, they talk loudly, cough loudly basically they are just loud voices. (Youngest is NT but has learnt how to talk this way because of big brother being with him 24/7 in lockdown as he was at the age of learning to talk basically!) Whenever they play they chatter to themselves and each other off an on and it’s quite loud, not shouting but loud speaking and if in the garden I tell them every 3/4 mins as the volume rises to keep it down and this pattern repeats the entire time they play out. I feel I have to but they get upset as they feel as though being told off continuously just for playing and using their normal voices which happen to be loud! Their dad and Nana are also on the spectrum and loud people so we try but I’m sure our neighbours hate us when they are in the garden but it it what it is. If I don’t intervene the volume just stays the same but they never stay quiet more than 2/3 mins before they rise up again so sometimes I feel like there’s no point and just to leave them be, they are never outside before 9am or after 7pm though as they go to bed at 7pm.

I am responding to your comment that children can do what they like at 11 am in their own garden. Children screeching for long periods of time may not be illegal but damn sure it's anti social and their parents need to intervene.
Not sure where the hyperbole comes in. Are you sure you have the correct word?

You're speaking completely hyperbolically about children playing. It's not anti social behaviour, it's not illegal, it's not anything out of the ordinary. It is far more selfish to expect everyone surrounding you in life to occupy absolutely no space in the world so that you do not feel their presence. It's as much the children's neighbourhood, space and world as it is yours darling.