Shrieking child next door ALL DAY LONG! WWYD

Almost none of that is anywhere close to the truth/ reality.

Please tell my neighbours that. lol.

Some people don't want to hear a peep though, and that's not necessarily realistic or fair.

The good side of having neighbour's that make some noise is you can make your own without worrying if you're bothering them. It's been a really windy week here and normally I'd tie up my wind chimes. However, my neighbours are inconsiderate so they've been incessant for days. Too bad.

Quiet enjoyment of one's home is the default setting.

The noise MAKER does not get to determine what is reasonable; the person on the receiving end does.

People whose kids are noisy need to develop strategies to allow their neighbours peace in the home. If that means taking the kids on six walks per day or driving them around in the car at night so they can scream without disturbing others, so be it.

No but we all have a different threshold for what is tolerable when it comes to the noise of kids not our own. One person's unreasonable may actually be quite reasonable (both ways).

Kids shrieking all day long is not a normal level of noise by civilized standards.

You don't have to tone down normal levels of noise related to normal activities for either of those things.

Do not do this, the council don’t do anything about it because it’s child noise and I believe you have to then declare the complaint when you want to sell the property. I went through this a few years ago, the parents were relentlessly unreasonable bastards and the only way to get them to shut the kids up was to also make a load of noise, late at night, very early on the weekend

This. I'm surprised the kid doesn't go to nursery. You could ask if he might be going soon.

@buffyajp
The OP doesn't have an office to go, so is either working from home or visiting clients.
Parents should be parenting their child and not allowing screaming and shrieking. We didn't allow that sort of noise when our DC were small.
If the chill is ND they should still be making some sort of effort to control noise.
Maybe they should move somewhere remote because no doubt they will be annoying the neighbours on their other side.

I think I'd tell the parents you find it early fitting the way their kid shrieks all the time. Can they please keep him quiet until 9am in the morning and after 10pm at night. If they refuse you could report to the council as a noise hazard

Well I doubt you do? It's certainly not normal for neighbours to know that much about their neighbours routines that they actually would keep quiet to facilitate revision or a baby to go down. Outside of the council-set quiet hours, it's normally a free-for-all.

So if working from home needn't be respected, why would I tone down noise so that my neighbours' infant could sleep, or their teen revise, or any other reason?

It's everyone for themselves now, eh?

After all, the student could go to the library and the parents could take the infant out.

Homes are workplaces and that's why the worker needs to treat them as such. Set them up properly, create an appropriate space and take responsibility for managing their own capacity to work from home. It's not on their neighbours to facilitate an appropriate working environment.

No it hasn’t.
No they don’t.
Short of noise which approches legal nuisance type levels (child noise very unlikely to do this, but clearly the OP is the one to assess in this case) there is absolutely nothing stopping people using homes as homes with associated noise for leisure, cleaning, building work, DIY, watching TV, listening to music, mowing the lawn, hoovering, playing, playing the French horn, whatever.
If people find it difficult to work from home with reasonable levels of noise from neighbours then the onus is on them to find somewhere else to do it- either an office, or a communal work base, library, community space etc. Again the OP would no doubt say that the child next door’s noise is unreasonable but none of us have heard it.
(And very aware that the OP is not just asking about work but I wanted to answer this point specifically).

I don't have shrieking kids but I'm not changing normal courteous home behaviour to cater for working at home. It's my home, not my workplace. If it's a problem, the worker can make adjustments.

The world has changed. Homes ARE workplaces now and need to be respected as such.

Also the child's parents could take him to parks and other open spaces. To be courteous and give neighbours a break.

I need to ask the neighbour's to make more noise then. ha

Exactly.

And not everyone has an office to go back to. My employer gave up the space and made us all permanent wfh-ers.

What a ridiculous statement

If this were true. The Indian population wouldn’t be so big.

It’s been associated with all sorts of health problems:

noise pollution not only drives hearing loss, tinnitus, and hypersensitivity to sound, but can cause or exacerbate cardiovascular disease; type 2 diabetes; sleep disturbances; stress; mental health and cognition problems, including memory impairment and attention deficits; childhood learning delays; and low birth weight. Scientists are investigating other possible links, including to dementia.

https://magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/noise-and-health#:~:text=They've%20shown%20that%20noise,attention%20deficits%3B%20childhood%20learning%20delays%3B

A review has found that air and noise pollution affect fertility (which doubtless means they affect other health issues too).

So can people please be quiet(er).

Noise and air pollution could increase the risk of infertility (thetimes.com)

You'll have to talk to them OP but be very gentle until you know if there are issues.

She sounds like a great fit for school and the workplace 😬