Kids screaming in garden next door!

I dunno. Screaming is unnecessary. Screeching is unnecessary. The garden isn’t massive so no need to shout particularly loudly. They play football and move the goal away from the fence so it doesn’t bang continuously, or they make up games together. None of that requires screeching. Kids should be kids but not to the detriment of everyone around them; same as I’m allowed to do what I want within the parameters of being a decent, considerate citizen!

The kids are playing in their garden and having fun. Kids are also loud, it’s just the way it is. As long as it’s not early morning or late at night I have no issue with it. I bet their not constantly screaming and screeching either.

I’d approach this by not being so ridiculous and letting the kids play and have their fun.

oh I know how you feel - we have neighbours whose children wake me up on sunny weekend mornings from about 7.30am - pisses me off - but they re kids and they are playing so I have never said anything...

until...

they mentioned hearing our dog barking in the evening sometimes when I let him out for a wee (never very long, he just needs to say hello to the foxes/squirrels/cats that have dared to stray into our garden) in a slightly passive aggressive way.

it was only then I mentioned their kids (as well as pointing out that it isn't always my dog, there are others who bark too)

it is urban living, we hear each other we all should be considerate but also accepting that others are at different stages of life, live different ways and have different priorities. I hear their kids, they hear my dog - they both annoy the other at times - but what is the option? kids don't play? I put a muzzle on the dog every tome he pops out for a wee?

Every year it's the same 🙄

Exactly. Mine are adult and mid teen and survived undamaged being made to come in if they started screaming. There is no excuse for screaming or screeching.

That is what wise parents would say.

If they were overly loud then yes I would tell them to be quiet. I parent my kids very well thank you. They’re polite and not a nightmare like many kids I see. I never said they could scream, but laughing loudly is fine. It’s their safe environment. My neighbours are very young and have no kids. They also enjoy doing their extension work at 7:30 on a Sunday which I’ve never moaned about. I also have neighbours directly at the back and on the other side and they’re quite elderly and they love hear my kids laugh. So keep your judgy opinions to yourself.

Exactly or my mum used to say exactly what I say to mine- scream again and you are in.

@aperolspritzbasicbitch I assume you live near me.

The DC in the garden behind me are out anytime in the morning from 6:30 onwards. I get the impression the parents open the back door and just let them out.

They argue, scream, cry and shout constantly.
It is not the happy sound of children playing at all. (and they are not ND)
One child's name being constantly shouted by parents.

I would def rather have DC out playing than inside in the nice weather but we all have to rumble along together and some consideration goes a long way.

Why do the kids needs trump everyone else's though? It's been a long winter for everyone.

" if they were excessively screaming I would tell them to tone it down a bit." You obviously take responsibility for your kids and have respect for your neighbours. It's the ones who don't give a shit that's the problem.

I guess it depends a little - an occasional water fight with some screaming and giggling - fine, screaming non stop not fine. You can't expect silence from children playing but I guess if they are screaming non stop for no reason that is different and I'd possibly politely ask if the screaming could be kept to a minimum.

If it is however just giggling, using a paddling pool, laughing and playing then I think they should just be left to carry on

I don't mind kids being a bit shouty and giggly. It's the continuous high pitched screaming that gets on my tits.

You sound like a bloody nightmare to live next door to quite frankly. You already know you're making your neighbours lives a misery, and you don't give a fuck.
I have no idea why you keep your children quiet in a park and let them scream at home.
You know, you could actually try parenting them properly and tell them to respect people around them who may not want to hear their racket. There's playing, and there's being little bloody nuisances.

All i hear is the sound of birds I'm lucky to be in a peaceful part .
But i do agree with others i dont like the screaming theres playing and theres just screaming at the top of the lungs i dont have children myself as i like peace .

Oh yes. Barky dogs and shouty noisy workmen up there with nuisance kids . Thing is with workmen you know it's a temporary disturbance.

"Every right to be out in the garden making as much noise as they please". There we have it folks. What an attitude. You must be a nightmare as a neighbour.

Dear god they sound dreadful 🫠

However, I think barky dogs and noise tradesmen are generally a lot worse.

Not quiet no, just reasonable noise. Kids talking laughing etc all obvs fine. Kids screaming for hours, not reasonable.

i agree with the other posters do not confront them at all regarding this as most people take offence and likely to do it all the more if they know it annoys you. I would probably go out for a walk for some peace and quiet if you got a local nature place or field you can go to. Enjoy the peaceful times while the kids are in school they will soon grow up and be inside playing on their computers.
My personal opinion is some people have been brought up right others really haven’t.

I think there's a difference between playing out and screaming and screeching isn't there? Kids are noisy but there is definitely a threshold at which they are just being a nuisance and their parents should tell them to play more quietly.

My son used to play football against the garden fence, which no doubt was annoying. But not all day and not late in the evening.

I used to play with a ping pong ball against the chimney. Again, not all day and not late in the evening.

There's a level of noise you have to suck up.

But screaming and screeching isn't it.

However, given the responses on here, most parents think their kids should be allowed to be as noisy as they like. Because it's sunny. Sigh.

Obviously your kids are screechers too. I can tolerate a lot of noise, love hearing all the kids in my estate, including my own, out playing. There seems to be a new phenomenon of kids being allowed to literally screech and scream as loud as they can and their parents say nothing. I can tolerate roaring and shouting but the screeching of some of them is absurd. Mine have been warned that if I ever heard them do that, I'll bring them straight indoors.

It is so bad that a few times my next door neighbour and I have went out looking to see if someone had hurt themselves but they were fine. Back in the day if me or my friends had dared do that outside someone's house, we'd have been told to told to move.

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'Crikey, why all the support for the noisey kids, My three would be told to keep it down, I wouldn't tolerate screeching, you can have fun without disturbing the whole neighbourhood'

Exactly! Our dc managed to play quite happily without disturbing people. Just tell your kids to shut up occasionally. It'll be the same folk who have them screeching on buses or restaurants while they're on tik tok.

I live rurally…in a set of farm cottages!

My kids play happily with next doors

New people moved in kids all roughly the same age - turned a nice peaceful place to like living on a new build estate where everyone is on top of each other.

Kids (not mine or the nice neighbour’s) screaming and screeching since 9am this morning, fucking annoying, I work from home and can’t concentrate properly in my garden office I’m now moving back in the house.

And let’s not forget them calling my children names and the parent doing fuck all about it…

and don’t get me started on their barking fucking dogs

My children can play quietly I have no idea why people think this is acceptable