Clocks go back and as if by magic....

Yes, you can tell who has all the 'spirited children' on here ...

It's ludicrous to be calling people 'miserable' for not wanting to listen to a thud thud thud of a football against a fence, (or a garage door,) and not wanting to listen to shrill, high-pitched screams from children. That is not just children playing, no-one minds that.

A poster asked 'why do some parents let their children just scream and scream outside?' Answer: because they don't care. They don't care about the neighbours, and the effect their feral brats are having on people, and they don't care about their children.

Far easier to shove their children outside onto the trampoline, or cheap plastic swing and slide set, let them kick balls at fences and garage doors, or whizz up and down the footpaths on little scooters running into elderly and disabled people, (whilst screaming blue murder for no reason whatsover,) than to actually spend time with them. The parents of these young children are far too busy on their phone/tikrok/instagram/talking to their mates/watching Netflix, and basically doing ANYthing but parenting their own children.

Thankfully there is only one such family in my road of 16 properties like this, and they don't live next door to me, but the kids do charge up and down the road some days, just screaming blue fecking murder, so you can't hear yourself think.

And NO I am not buying noise cancelling headphones! I shouldn't have to!

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Our garden borders a park with a skateboard ramp and a basketball court. We have bikes, skateboards, balls all summer. It really is good to hear the kids having proper fun.

What does go through me the kids who seem to think it is fun to shriek like they are being murdered. But they soon stop.

What is more annoying is next to the park are allotments, and people burn garden waste a billion times a year which then puts soot on my washing and makes it smell like I’ve been camping. Plus makes my house smell.

Lol...

You: "oh just put on headphones and ignore it!"

Also you: reports my repeated whump whump whump reply😂

I was making a serious point, although it apparently went over your (or whoever reported it)'s head.

The serious point is that just as having someone post whump whump whump whump repeatedly on a thread is annoying, having someone kick a ball against the wall of your house on and on and on is bloody annoying.

Whump whump whump!

My kids play out, even on the mn hated trampoline. However, they don’t shriek and don’t hit balls against a neighbour’s fence. Surely you can see that there’s a difference and understand how upsetting anti social behaviour is. Or are you the kind of selfish cow whose precious dc can do no wrong and allows these behaviours? 🤔

Nobody said they can't play out

These poor kids can’t win they ‘shouldn’t be inside all the time on tablets/phones/games etc’ they ‘can’t play in their own back garden incase they annoy their neighbour’ ‘shouldn’t have a tablet in a restaurant but god forbid if they move or cause a noise’ ‘shouldn’t be in a pub’, tbh I do agree with that one. What do people want them to do? Hide inside in silence until they turn 18?

My dd dances in a different part of town and last summer I walked the dog there while she was dancing. The noise and shrieking dc was way beyond being acceptable. I’ve never heard anything like it. Suddenly I understood the mn threads about this.

I caveat this with the fact I have 3 dc who I always felt were loud but it was happy giggles and calling to each other, not shrieking. I can see how those who’ve not experienced it don’t grasp how bad living by unparented dc can be.

It’s good kids are out playing, too many stuck indoors on games these days!

All this. To add that my evening dog walks are now spoiled by adults and children appearing out of nowhere. Kids running towards dogs, scooters charging at them and/or kids wanting to pet them. Where were you all in the freezing cold, wet dark evenings? Peace gone for a few months😤

Those moaning about kids actually playing outside are probably the same snobby cows who moan about kids being glued to screens.

It's unfair to say "oh would you prefer them to be indoors stuck to their phones ?"when they are genuinely causing stress

Absolutely. It’s unfair but also ridiculous to say that because I was a 90s kid and played out for hours, but there was loads of things we did that didn’t involve kicking a ball at someone’s fence or wall.

Yes, a ball may have occasionally hit a fence or a wall but it wasn’t like we were deliberately or frequently bouncing a ball off someone’s property.

It's unfair to say "oh would you prefer them to be indoors stuck to their phones ?"when they are genuinely causing stress.

I love the sound of kids playing normally. It takes me right back to when our mum took us to the local park every day in the early 80s during the summer holidays. Nothing will ever beat those days. And, yes even back then you got the little gits pulling wheelies on their bikes and throwing stuff at old people's windows, etc.

But. I had to leave London because we were subjected to a severe campaign of harassment by a huge group of kids. They pulled knives on us on our own doorstep, and tried to attack us with fireworks. Absolutely no reason for any of it.

So now if I see well behaved kids, I am absolutely loving it. When I see gangs of kids on bike, it's almost like a PTSD thing and I turn and go the other way. I get really nervous. I do think kids can be cocky though. Eg if we walk past the purpose built kids park in our development, they'll always heckle you. Buut I did similar as a kid, so..

My kids were never allowed outside before 9am or after 8pm in the summer at weekends, and if they started screaming/shouting, they came back in a bit pronto. It's called courtesy and respect for people living around you.

That’s great for you but some people don’t always want to listen to music, I love music but I want to listen to it when I feel like it - not to drown out balls thumping against a fence or wall!

Or maybe someone wants to rest or are talking on the phone or may even get bad migraines like I once did.

I actually love the sound of kids playing.
I used to have my garden backing out onto a school playground and a couple of times the kids on their break times tried to speak to me when I was putting out the bins - so sweet!

Generally I prefer to hear kids laugh and shout than to hear drunk adults at a bbq. Or my next door neighbours dog barking 🙄

That said ball thumping on your fence or wall in the evenings or early in the morning is unacceptable, why are people trying to justify that? Is this why so many kids are the way they are nowadays?

Aside from the annoying or disruptive noise it can also cause damage over time. Thankfully I’ve never lived anywhere where kids have behaved like that! If they did I would certainly do something about it be it have a word with the parents or the council/landlords etc.

I don’t think the answer is always just grin and bear it, when someone is touching your property in a way that is adversely impacting you!

I agree with this post, except in one regard. I am, apparently, a "grumpy pensioner" yet despite having no children (because I didn't want any) I couldn't care less about kids making a noise playing outside. I used to have a family living over my back fence who kicked balls, climbed onto my garage roof, shrieked and laughed - and in later years held noisy parties at night. I enjoyed listening to them, whatever hour of the day/night, because they were doing what kids/teens should be doing instead of being glued to screens.

Noise cancelling headphones. I also use
white noise when I’m going to sleep.

Ah here’s someone who lets their kids express themselves 🤣

I never mind listening to children playing except for next door's whinging 4 year old that was out on the trampoline at 7.30am last weekend. 10 minutes in, I was ready to go out and tell Mum to put him back to bloody bed and give us all a break. They're very intense older first time parents and fuck me, it's draining to listen to let alone live. 100% gentle parenting and already the boy is showing signs of being in absolute control. I'm dreading this weekend....

Had a few summers of kids playing football in the middle of the street, hitting cars, windows and breaking fences. Leaving trash on the green. Loud awful music etc. Parents have quad bikes they love to rev.

This summer is my revenge (yes immature), I have a toddler, who likes to get up at 5:30am, we will be playing in the garden alot…nice and early 😃

Footballs against fences are very anti social. Most gardens are not big enough for playing football games. That’s what parks are for.

But WHY don't parents tell their children to stop screaming and annoying neighbours? I really cannot understand it.

I like to hear the neighbours children. They are sometimes a bit loud, but they’re just having fun. I don’t have any who spend hours booting a ball at a fence though. I definitely wouldn’t like that.

It's Death Squad Screams here.

Apparently it only takes two children and a paddling pool and you'd swear murder was being committed. I don't mind children yelling, but the high pitched screaming gets a bit wearing.

There are some miserable fuckers on this thread. Complaining about children playing outside. Off you fuck to the pine forest if you don’t want to be disturbed by other people living in close proximity to you. Or get some earplugs/ headphones.