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

“My grouchy, childless boss and his wife moved to get away from neighbour noise.”

That’s so rude! Why are they grouchy for not wanting to put up with neighbour noise? And what’s got being childfree have to do with that? There’s plenty of people with children who don’t want to put up with screaming! It’s not a privilege of the childfree

@Hamsterian I didn't say that. You've made your own assumptions.

Just shout that there is no need for that!! I have done so many times at people outside my window!!

I have no experience of screaming neighbourhood children. I can only reflect on my childhood and can’t remember it being acceptable to scream continually and cause a ruckus. Like how are the screaming? having fun occasionally screech kinda thing ? How old are they? I think if my own children were constantly being loud and screamy, especially if you have neighbours etc I’d tell them to keep it down. Who can be assed listening to that , even if they are your own kids.

@CourtneyLurve what did you mean then?

This is exactly what you said: “My grouchy, childless boss and his wife moved to get away from neighbour noise.”

@Hamsterian I took it as the boss being generally grouchy, not specifically about children.

Quackers literally a high pitched, whistley scream. Loudly and repeatedly with the odd screaming competition thrown in.

I've literally never heard the like of it before.......well I have. But not like this. And i didn't think parents ignoring or encouraging this behaviour existed.

And yet here we are.

Oh god are you my neighbour? If every other scream is followed by the sound of an adult yelling 'STOP SCREAMING YOU ARE DRIVING ME INSANE' then I apologise. They have been completely demented today. My 4 year old spent 10 mins screaming because she saw a spider and then both kids screamed at each other for not playing their made up game by the rules the other one wanted to play with, then the 4 year old screamed again because the 8 year old sat on the wrong cushion!
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