to think there is probably nothing I can do about this

[horribleneighbours]

So depressed and down though...
Basically our neighbours through the wall and the neighbours a few doors down are horrific. They are loud, dirty and horrible. The main issue is how loud their kids are.

Now I know kids are allowed to play but they are disturbing our family life to such an extent I don't know what to do. Our house faces on to the street and so do the bedrooms. These kids play outside in the street from about 7 till 10 and it is as if they are in the same room as us. SCREECHING at each other, kicking balls of walls and gates that make such a din, it is unbearable! It's taking me up to two hours to get ds down every night, I will lie there feeding him and have him nearly off to sleep then one of them will let out a blood curdling yell (there's about 8 of them) and he will start awake again.

Often we're both in tears, I know this might sound pathetic but it's night after night , bedtime should be a nice calm experience for him and it's just the opposite.It's a battle to get him to sleep against the din outside. The parents are just as bad, every so often one of them will yell at god knows how many decibels for one of the kids to come in.

I called the police helpline but they said that all I could do was call the police when the noise is going on and they will come along and decide if it is in fact anti social.

Can I repeat, I know kids are allowed to play but never once have I heard their parents asking them to keep it down or show any consideration for the fact there are other people living in the street, I have a bit of PND and this is making it worse, please don't flame me.

sweetheart, you have to move.
i'm so sorry about this. you won't be able to change them and you don't want a war. see the gp, enlist his help. i'm assuming this is rented accomm, so see the landlord about a possible transfer. if you're an owner occupier, let your house and you move elsewhere!

What i will say, though is that when i had PND, noise level was my thing to get upset about, to the point were i didn't sleep because of normal traffic etc noise.

At the time i thought that it was the neighbours at fault, now looking back it was my PND.

I really feel for you OP, and can't imagine how frustrating this must be for you. Could you approach the parents of the children and explain the situation to them? Maybe say that you don't begrudge them playing out, but that the noise level and the fact they are out until 10pm is unacceptable. If this isn't an option, then I would be phoning the police constantly as it is having such a detrimental impact on you and your son. I think it would be better for you to try and get this sorted before trying to move house, unless you feel that this would be quite an easy process to go through? IME moving house is just so stressful and would create a lot of upheaval that may be unnecessary. This should be a last resort.

You poor thing. I don't have advice on the neighbours, but have you tried white noise in the bedroom to mask it? We had noisy (young) neighbours who would have parties & stand outside smoking and screeching at 2am - right by the kids' bedroom window. We put a fan on in the kids' room and it really helped.

Really hope your situation improves.

We do plan to move house next year as they are just so awful, we came to view the house on a rainy day so didn't see them out in the street(otherwise we wouldn't have moved in!) but it's embarassing inviting people round, they use the street outside as a rubbish tip with broken furniture everywhere and if we go out in our garden their manky kids come and stand at the gate and stare in at us - it's so depressing. I heard the mum tell one of the quite young kids to SHUT THE FUCK UP the other night, it's just horrible to have that as the soundtrack to your life!

There is no way we could approach them unfortunately, they are rough as, I would get punched.

I will try to call the police, we are here till next year when we have saved enough to move, and I can't put up with it till then...