Holy hell the neighbours kids have discovered screaming / screeching.

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Now I'll admit when I've seen posts on here moaning about kids screaming I've thought to myself ' you misery arses. They're only kids playing. We were young once' blah, blah,blah.

Over the last few weeks the two girls next door have discovered the most ear shattering, high pitched screech that must be heard by every dog within a 50 mile radius. And it's constant. It sounds like one of those police whistles they had in the olden days.

Not only that but they seem to have screeching competitions. Which consists of screaming increasing in pitch and loudness for as long as they can manage. I've quite literally never heard anything like this in my life. And I had a very vocal DD (( her nickname was TRIO because of her habit of shouting across the house instead of speaking to them ))

And I don't feel as tho i can moan because that will mean I'm a grumpyarse, instead I've come inside and I'm now sat with my head under a fan trying to drown out the noise that I can hear indoors 3 bastard rooms away.

Aaaargh

One of my neighbours children does this. She goes into the garden and screams. She isn't playing, she's just standing there screaming at the top of her lungs, takes a breath then screams again. She can go on for hours. We double glazed and we can still hear it with all the windows shut.
We're putting the house on the market as soon as lockdown ended. Between her and my other neighbour's stereo I've got to the end of my tether.

I think you might live near me but closer to the screaming/screeching. There are a couple of households here, one has a horrendously loud screamer, and the other has a pair of them. The loud one is unfortunately quite close and not even in the same street as us, it makes my ears bleed and I have to go inside.

The others have a screaming competition in the garden. I wonder why they don't do it inside, assume the parents don't want to hear it so send them out to inflict it on everyone else while no-one can go anywhere to get a way.

@Saturns, I would love to move too, but after being on MN for some time and reading all the threads about moving to get away from neighbours I am afraid that I might end up next to the ones that someone else has sold up to get away from.

Could you have a word with the parents, OP? If all else fails, join in with the screaming competitions - if it doesn't get your point across, it might at least get rid of your frustrations.

Sympathies though.

Jeebus. RIP your peace and quiet. I hate children screaming and screeching for no reason. One of the main reasons too is that I don’t know what is a cry for help vs. a frivolous scream anymore. Boy who cried wolf, if you see what I mean.

Air horn is needed. Blast it each time they scream, stop when they stop.
Parents might get the message.

Sorry, I'll go and get them in now. (Are you in a quiet village in North Germany by any chance).

My two year old screams. Drives me nuts. No way would I be able to cope with it from other peoples kids. My kids come inside if they scream

Bloody awful isn't it. The kids next door do it and it's even worse when they're in the pool. They try to make as much noise as possible even when there's one of them out there alone. It's bizarre.
I wasn't allowed to scream as a kid and I certainly won't be letting mine do it.
We also have it from two doors down (all day long) and from the house behind.
House is going on the market ASAP and I'm hoping it's a bit quieter when we have viewings.

Think I'd take to bellowing "Be Quiet!" at thetop of my lungs, or getting a burly baritone to do it for me. Cant understand how the parents don't teach them whatis and isn't acceptable, there's general noise and then there's unacceptable noise.

Never stood for screaming with mine when they were younger. They are now stroppy teenagers in their rooms playing Fortnite in this weather. When they venture out to play footy on the garden my miserable neighbour delights in making a point of slamming their windows shut. I delight in laughing at the miserable twat

I wasn't allowed to scream as a kid and I certainly won't be letting mine do it.

Yeah, this is what I don’t get. I wasn’t allowed to unnecessarily scream either. Regular joy, fine, but not this ear piercing shit I’ve heard the last few years. Are people just not teaching their children not to scream anymore? WTH?

Record them and play it back? It's shitty parenting sadly, so even if you complain to the parents they aren't likely to do anything.

I thought children were being murdered earlier the screams were so high pitched and constant. They live 5 doors up on the other side of the road. Thankfully peace has now resumed.

Few things worse than a screaming child. Assuming the children are NT, the parents are feckless and reprehensible.

Oh and be careful about moving. My grouchy, childless boss and his wife moved to get away from neighbour noise. They choose a semi-detached cottage in a fairly rural area next door to an elderly couple. Peace at last. Except two months later, the couple died/went into care and a family with a bunch of screeching darlings moved in.

Nah I'd be speaking to the parents its inconsiderate.My dog has a penchant for barking at the neighbours everytime they go in their garden and he gets brought back inside every time.Everyone has the right to enjoy their garden in peace.

Wouldn’t it be a pity if you were watering the garden and the hosepipe slipped and soaked them every time they scream

And they never shush them either. Literally the only time I've heard their pathetic dad say keep the noise down is when their equally pathetic mother is having a lie in.

I mean how the hell can anyone be that dense ?? We don't have massive gardens by the way ? Oh no, we have small yards.......well I say small but big enough for a paddling pool and a couple of recliners. So ample space. And no excuse for whipping up that type of hysteria whenever they fecking go outside.

Trying to sleep off nights/before nights.

It is feckin impossible.

I’ll say one thing for the kids round here though. They have a range that would put ruddy Mariah Carey to shame.

I think their parents have become immune.

Id hate that. My daughter has a habit of yelling me from the garden rather than getting off the trampoline to ask whatever vitally important thing she needs. 🙄. I make her come in. Every single time. And screaming means in and not going back out.

If someone could sort the yappy Jack Russell out that never stops though, id be eternally grateful.

Sorry. Not my dog. One further down the street. Just to be clear.

My neighbours kids scream incessantly, or cry depending on what one of them has done to the other.
The parents seem immune to the misery their kids inflict on the neighbours .

These days I'm at the stage where I'd stand over the fence and loudly say something in me dead posh voice, like, "GIRLS! WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU SCREAMING FOR?! STOP THAT NOW! You're giving everyone around here headaches!"

Most of the time that kind of telling off works. Only once have I had a parent get shirty with me but I just told her plainly, if She wasn't going to stop her child being a violent little shit (he was hitting a friend's toddler) then someone needed to! And I just dismissed her and turned my back. (And after blowing out a huge breath, heart pounding, whispered to my mate, "She gone yet?"). She stormed off taking her little hellion with her.

My neighbours have small twin boys that they basically parent by crowd control: turf them outside and yell at one or the other intermittently whilst nose down in their phone (& shirtless).

Needless to say their kids shriek endlessly for hours on end, it’s unrelenting. We have double glazing and it still makes it’s way through that AND noise cancelling headphones whilst I’m working.

I’m desperate for the furloughed father to go back to work as they’re outside much less when with their mum.