Oh f***ing hell, it’s starting again...

[AllesAusLiebe]

By that I mean the curse of lighter evenings and the feral kids three (yes, THREE) doors away screaming on the fucking trampoline.

I can hear it in my living room, they’re so damn loud. If it’s still going on when I’m trying to put DS to bed, I won’t be responsible for my actions.

Anyone else suffering with this absolute menace already?

Last year this continued all damn summer, often until after 9:30pm. Trying to reason with them and asking politely that they tried to reduce the screaming achieved nothing. I have no problem with kids playing and enjoying the outdoors - that’s a good thing. It’s the fucking incessant screaming.

I'd go for the "shut the fuck up" approach loudly from an upstairs window.

Worked for me when our NDN decided to mow his lawn at 6,30am on a Sunday morning last summer in the heatwave.

Though I do blush every time I see him now

My neighbour's child has played on theirs every day through winter. It's really creaky and he looks over into our garden and kitchen window while he's jumping on it, it does get on my nerves a bit.

OP..... I have the same issues. Three of them screaming and shouting until the sun goes down. Every.Fucking.Night.
I want to invest in a water cannon and blast them off the thing. And if they are not on the trampoline they are kicking a ball against their fence. TBF the whole family are pretty feral and there is usually a police car parked up outside at least once a month.

Actually OP I'm with you - the kids next door are just so relentless. We live near a park but they never seem to go there, so it's constant screaming, shouting and throwing balls around (and into our house and garden). You can't get a moment's peace when they're not at school.

@radishingravish,

There's a difference between kids enjoying themselves and screaming.

they are children they are should be outside screaming and laughing.

Laughing yes, screaming no. Why do they have to scream and why is this supposed to be acceptable? It isn’t. There is no need.

There’s screaming and there’s screaming...

I LOVE hearing all the kids playing out, I don’t mind the arguing, the ‘singing’, the shouting, the screaming and squealing when they’re playing chase games...but I can’t stand the pointless ‘because I can’ screaming, screaming for the sake of it. Around here it pisses me off because it’s the 13/14 year olds who should know better!

No one who had to put up with the ‘screaming’ would be being sarcastic about ‘kids playing out - how dreadful’.

This will be your child one day

Yours maybe, but not mine thanks.

I think ALL the gardens with children have trampolines in my block. All the kids seem to spend a lot of time outside, invite each other and have fun generally. There's only ONE family with screaming kids that disturbs the whole neighbourhood.

Kids are not silent on trampolines, but screaming and screeching is optional. Lazy or inconsiderate parents who don't give a hoot about their neighbours. They should move in the middle of nowhere if they want to make as much noise as they want, not in a build up area.

I don’t get the constant screaming thing either. It’s just antisocial behaviour and kids are being brought up ill-mannered these days. Haven’t got a problem with them shouting to each other as part of normal play or a few squeals of excitement now and again if they’re playing imaginary stuff or having races. We were out all day as kids, we played hop scotch, hide and seek type games, ball games, badminton, rode our bikes, roller skating, pushed dolls up and down in prams, marbles, kerb games. None of which involve high pitched screaming at the top of your lungs every 20 seconds for 3 hours.

our NDN decided to mow his lawn at 6,30am on a Sunday morning last summer

WHY do people do that? It's amazing how inconsiderate some people can be. I bet they'll complain if you start a rave party at 3am.

I used to feel sad about having a flat with no garden

now I think it's better as I couldn't cope with this either OP.

we have balconies and the guy downstairs spends all mild evenings shouting on his mobile phone, that's bad enough!

I’ve never allowed my DC to do that brain piercing screaming. Pity other parents don’t do the same.

Laughing, shouting, the occasional exited shriek are all normal. Constant screaming isn’t.

I was very polite to the little screamers last summer but they took to throwning empty cans/rubbish at my living room window. The sounds of their screams were VERY handy at leading me to where they lived. They’ve stayed clear since and long may it continue! I could hear them over loud music played through headphones !

Oh dear, my kids were outside playing on the trampoline until 6.30pm this evening. Its the first time they have been able to play in the garden since last year and they were pretty boisterous. I really like being able to hear them (when they are quiet I worry!). The 'children' next door are now in the early twenties and I have no doubt that I will hear their friends hanging out in their garden drinking beer and laughing until the early hours of the morning later in the summer. Hasten to add that I don't mind hearing them outside either. With out weather it is nice to be able to sit outside!

I am dreading it this year.

Next doors kids are sooo annoying, just scream at the top of their lungs randomly throughout the day and evening because they feel like it and never once heard their parents tell them to be quiet Day time is fine and not unreasonable at all if they're playing nicely but what really pisses me off is when it gets to gone past normal bed time for kids their age and they're still out there playing and I'm trying to get DS (who is only 2) to sleep and they're screaming and whining. Like, why are they not in bed or at least inside chilling out. They've been know to play out in their PJs before now.

3 doors down also have a trampoline and they scream all evening aswell. Very inconsiderate and I wish their parents weren't so rough cos I would tell them to shut the fuck up otherwise.

l have three little boys living next door to me. l love hearing them playing in the garden. lf their ball comes over the fence, they knock and ask very politely if they can get it. Then invariably ask if they can come in and see my rabbits. They're lovely, nice children.
However. There's an older boy a few doors up who plays with a football. The constant bouncing and thudding drives me mad. l don't mind kids playing, but that noise seems to hit every nerve!

If that fails buy an air horn.

I’ve had some awesome advice on here over the years, but this is absolute genius!

DH was all in favour of plugging the speakers in and switching them on loud last year, but we’ve got nice (elderly) people next door and it wouldn’t be fair to them to have to endure noise twofold.

It just irritates me so much. It’s only one family out of a block of 8. Everyone else is very considerate with kids/dogs barking etc.

And no, I think that children should be encouraged to play outside and also, no, DS will not be disturbing my neighbours with mindless screaming when he’s bigger because I’ll bring him indoors and tell him to be considerate to others.

Only today at a play centre I witnessed a group of three mothers of toddlers stand idly by while their offspring ran around screaming needlessly and mindlessly. It's not the same thing as playing, or even playing noisily. To those people saying 'your kids will do this one day' etc etc, they didn't and they won't, because they'd be immediately corrected by me if for any reason they were screaming 'just because'. Whether or not you personally find it acceptable, itreflects extremely badly on you as a parent if you don't expect your child to show some concern for others.

Our next door neighbours constantly have sleepovers so go out in the garden on a Sunday morning 8am about 6 of them screaming...... but neighbours complain about little noises at 9/10 pm. Not to mention the little yapper they have who yaps all the time.

I have found that the higher they bounce the louder they scream.

I don't mind playing, laughing, mowing until 9.30. Screaming for screaming sake.

Also, wtf is 'peanut butter, jelly time' and why does it need to be screamed?

There’s another women at the school who lets her kids scream and shout, he rams into people, she then goes to the the local shop and they just run riot and scream and she lets them get away with it. I’m all for child freedom which my kids have but they don’t shout and scream and act feral.

same here thats why i love the winter its bloody quiet at least

my husband does shifts he cant sleep during the day when theyre screaming and when its ht he cant open the window

Actually did laugh out loud at the 'final countdown' comment. Excellent!

Blinkingblimey you read my mind! 😂

MilkTrayLimeBarrel I know that was probably meant as a joke, but last summer when 8 months pregnant and furious with life in general, I spent many an uncomfortable night pondering how I could get in and take a knife to the damn thing!

I hope your not my neighbour mine have been out since 6 tiring themselves out, being extra loud as my ndn has been using some sort of stil saw for the past 6 days starting a 8 in the morning!

Geez. Calm down and remember we have an obesity crisis in this country from kids staying indoors and playing on computers. Outside running around enjoying themselves is something to be encouraged. Surely?