about children screaming

[shushscreamingkids]

Next door's two DDs and their DS are playing on the trampoline, and screaming. I don't mean playing and the odd loud shout but persistent yelps, screams and screeches and this has been going on the best part of an hour now.

AIBU in thinking this really isn't considerate at all? It's a row of terraced houses on a hill so loads of houses and gardens around us and certainly no one on our street or the one below us (so around 16 houses in total) will be able to hear much of anything else - I had to give up on Corrie!

Or am I being a spoilsport?

Hate screamers yanbu

I'm with you. Don't mind children playing, occasional shouting, being loud, etc in the slightest but that screeching sound is ridiculous, unnecessary and goes right through me.

YANBU, The two dds next door to me have been screeching since about 6 o/c, I've noticed that the parents are indoors with the windows and doors shut.

YANBU, those trampolines are the work of satan

No, you're not a spoilsport. Where's the fun in listening to screeching, screaming children?

YANBU, I wouldn't want to listen to it, but tbh they have probably been cooped up inside for months on end waiting for the dry weather to be able to play outside the parents are probably celebrating being able to kick them out and are just making the most of it.

Laughing, talking, playing etc fine
Screaming and shouting are not!
We have a trampoline but DCs don't use it in the evening and don't shout whilst on it.

Trampolines should be banned

As a mum of 3 DCs, now adults, I would have loved a trampoline for them.

Fresh air and exercise to work off all that childhood energy - I think I would have sent them out to play on it in all weathers!

But I wouldn't have tolerated them screaming while jumping.

Be glad they are in the garden and not rampaging through the house screaming and thudding like next doors kids have been doing ALL DAY LONG

Mine wouldn't be allowed to make that sort of noise in the evenings but they do when using the trampoline during the day.

Luckily my 85 year old neighbour tells me that the sound of our children playing fills her with joy!

I dont know what the score with all this screaming nowadays. One starts and then the rest join in. I dont know why they arn't told to calm it.

I've been at a school sports/family day and as soon as 6 kids got on the bouncy castle they all screamed and screamed....not your usual having a happy time, laughing type stuff but forced 'I can scream louder than you' screaming'.

My neighbours have a 1yr old daughter and they spend pretty much all day making high pitched screaming and 'whoop whoop' noises at / to her.

It's driving me slowly crazy so I feel your pain OP

Hate it, YANBU. It just takes the minimum of manners from the parents to get them to quiet down too. When I lived at my parents we had it from the kids in the house behind. It's fucking awful.

I have no problem with short bursts of over-exuberance from kids (I have an excitable pair of my own - both have SN and one of them screeches lots) but we used to have a girl live in our terrace who was constantly screeching orders at all the other kids and it was bloody annoying. DS2, screechy as he is, usually manages not to do it constantly, without a break and if he's going OTT, we glue him to a screen try to change the activity to something more calming.

So YANBU.

YANBU

YANBU - hope it doesn't happen too regularly! I get woken up every weekend morning by screaming kids. It's not even safe for them to be playing in the street outside my flat either.