Kids screaming in garden next door!

I do feel for you as I know next doors teenagers will be back from university any day now, which means they will spend all summer in the garden, with their mates round, shouting and playing shit tinny dance music all summer till 11pm. I work from home, with no option of an office to go to, and I know it's going to drive me barmy again. They have one of those above ground pools which has been filled up last weekend, and already the constant whine of the pump is driving me insane. Today they're having their lawn replaced by plastic grass. Yes, they're that sort. These same neighbours get all arsey about me hanging my knickers on the washing line though. The joys of city living!

It's not that they make noise, it's the level and repetitive nature of it, and that it's unnecessary.

Air rifle.

Unless it's really early or really late I dont think you can complain.

Well then, don't make stupid assumptions yourself then either.

Why do people think screeching equals playing. FFS it’s possible to play and be considerate of others - snowflake generation incoming.

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, I wouldn't allow kicking of balls against the fence either, they were taught that they can play and have fun without causing distrunbance to others also trying to enjoy their outside space, my three have grown up to be to be considerate well rounded individuals, and not at all damaged by showing consideration to others around them. It's shocking the number of parents who are raising entitled brats. Not sure of your solution OP, but you could have a friendly word with your neigbour, be interesting to see if they apologise or just give you an earful.

Just being an idiot and screeching and laughing too loudly . So they warned me and I realised I shouldn't do it

But then swap it round, part of having neighbours is being considerate that other people want to use their garden between 9-5 and not listen to constant shrieking every day the weather is nice, or be able to open a window

The worst culprit where I live is the dad a few doors down. A couple of times a week he’s out there playing with the kids after school. But he’s about 10x as loud as his kids. Constantly narrating everything he’s doing at the top of his voice….‘now Daddy’s on the floor’, ‘look at daddy in the climbing frame!’, ‘oooh, Daddy caught that with one hand!!!’, ‘everyone look at what an amazing father I am, playing with my kids really loudly, just in case you haven’t noticed how great I am….’
It feels so performative!

@BallandBoe yes, fostering leading to adoption. The kids told me they had been left alone when I confronted them about the stones incident. And yes I mentioned reporting to social services to the mother and children. Thats when she went ballistic and said it was untrue and told me to "get off her land" but in more lurid terms! I was not the only reporter.

Play the none censored version of “WAP” , very loudly, on repeat, every time they scream. Their parents will soon get the message.

You don’t raise it, they’re playing in their garden in the summer.

I would be really uncomfortable about telling children, who can realistically only spend much time in the garden for a couple of months a year, how much noise they can make when they’re outside. It’s just part of having neighbours.

I wonder what you were doing at the time for an adult to feel the need to tell you that 🤔

I'd be annoyed but if it's after 8am and before 10pm I'd be deal with it begrudgingly

Given the opportunity my own children would win a playing in the garden shrieking competition. I have to regularly tell them to calm down and if I'm aware that other neighbours are out in their garden and my children aren't reining it in a bit, I'll either take them out or bring them in to do something else for a short while to change the dynamic. When they go back out they're then calmer. I do think children should be able to enjoy themselves but I think my neighbours should too and I think constant days of shrieking is a bit much (I know I'm glad when I can hear myself think come the evening).

I think the only really acceptable thing you can say is next time there's relevant conversation you say "sounds like the kids have been having fun in the garden - isn't it so nice the weather has turned isn't it".... if it were me I would hear that as kids are a bit too loud but without any animosity, however it could be interpreted as acceptance of the volume but there's nothing you can do about that.

I dont think you can expect quiet in your garden if you have neighbours, thats why some people pay a high premium to not have neighbours within earshot

You have my sympathy, OP. We live next to a park. Over the years we’ve been exposed to all sorts of unwanted noise, but it’s a public park so pretty much to be expected. It’s really nice hear the children playing, laughing and having fun, but over the last couple of years, the screaming has become unbearable. It’s not squealing or little ones being chased as in a game, it’s full on blood curdling screams. Often, the parent or adult with them is just sitting staring at their phone while the child lets rip. I even watched two teenage girls having a screaming competition the other day. You know, just for fun.

Exactly

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Oh no, how awful. That's exactly the kind of thing that I worry about and partly why I think parents should discourage excessive screaming.

@DeeCeeCherry , the little boy I mentioned has a very loud voice that carries. Their house is about 4 doors away. He is too young for school.
As soon as his sister comes home from school he calls her name non-stop.
I can close the door, but I am a keen gardener and it's spoiling my enjoyment.

I ignore the NDN's daughter but she is loud, and she bosses her father around in a way that i would find unacceptable. I'm not her parent, but I don't like hearing her talking to her dolls or her dad like that.

But you do own the airspace above your house up to a certain point. Hence why you don't have to tolerate neighbours trees and structures etc hanging into your garden,

People can't control their kids which speak the same language as them but people are expected to control dogs

You can't. We ignored a child screaming at my last house as she screamed all the time
Turns out she had tried to climb up to her bedroom window and was dangling
Eventually I went out but she fell as I opened the door, landed on the patio and broke both her legs

You must live near me.
My next door neighbours have their grandkids living with them and the kids, aged about 9 and 5, just holler and scream at each other in the garden. They are incapable of speaking in normal voices, even when just sitting next to each other. It is absolutely unbearable and another reason why I hate the warmer months.
When we were kids, if we were screaming or shouting, we would be told to come back in and to consider the neighbours but I never once hear my neighbours tell them to keep it down. Makes me so angry.