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.

It's antisocial - sure laughing, talking maybe the occasional shout but prolonged screaming is awful, I used to have neighbours like that years ago.

You can have kids outdoors without screaming - that is part of teaching them good manners and consideration.

Ours are teens now, but we have a massive garden and were lucky enough to put the trampoline 150 ft from the house, but we still knocked on the head any screaming or excessive noise. It's perfectly easy for kids to enjoy being outside without making as much noise as possible.

No neighbours should be subjected to irritating noise, be it music, loud adults or noisy kids. The same goes for restaurants and other public places where there are adults.

I can't be doing with those feckless parents that think, 'kids make loads of noise, so fuck the rest of you'.

My story is a little different. It involves children in a pool screaming for a good solid 20-30 minutes until I couldn't take it anymore. You may ask why were they screaming? Well it was the middle of winter and the water was freezing. After I couldn't take the screeching any longer, I yelled in my best paddock covering voice "can you please shut up!" In true Disney style, there was total silence in the entire neighbourhood. Not even a bird called, dog barked or cricket chirped LOL The screaming did stop

The real problem is parents not teaching their children appropriate behaviour and to be considerate around other people. But then some parents won't have a clue what I mean, and the ones that do, already teach their children appropriate behaviour and consideration . . .

Not kid related but this has reminded me of ndn at previous house that used to sweep the back garden path EVERY night at around 11pm (you could hear it through closed window) One night I just lost it and yelled "shut the fuck up" through an open window.Funnily enough her garden never needed sweeping Late at night again

Not just you OP, ours next door but one. I wouldn't mind if they weren't shrieking like fucking banshees then at the weekends when the kids have gone to, I'm assuming GPs house? It's then the parents in their hot tub, pissed, laughing like hyenas until stupid o'clock.

Wonder how you could pimp the trampoline so it’s like a giant fart balloon?

Every time pressure is applied, by jumping up & down, a loud fruity fart sound is made.

Of course, this could monstrosly backfire (!) so you end up with shrieking AND fart noises.

Poor kids have been stuck inside for four months and you want to begrudge them a mad couple of hours after school. I am childless and live in a street with mad kids and it's great, they fill it with energy and everything good about spring and summer.

They knock on my door and ask for ice pops and sweets. All of them can scream and play as much as they want those days don't last nearly long enough anymore.

Not joking, we have neighbours two down from us and the younger of the girls would scream literally all day. I honestly don’t know how she had a voice left. It ruined my fil’s last visit to us, we couldn’t take him in the garden because of it. At one point, we went round and had words, the father rolled his eyes at us but it stopped. For a week. Someone at the time said she’ll grow up and stop. Thank fuck, she has, but it was torture, the kids were dumped in the garden and ignored.

I can’t help, OP, but I am very sympathetic. Kids playing is lovely, we have two gorgeous young lads next door, they sing, run round, play on the trampoline, it’s lovely to hear, but mindless screaming should be outlawed. 🤬

parents in their hot tub, pissed, laughing like hyenas until stupid o'clock.

This^

(Glad we moved. Oh the heart sink when I saw the hot tub in the new neighbours back garden.) Then re-enacting the bombing of Dresden on our shared garden fence with fireworks at 00:01 on New Years Day was a new low.

Wonder what their dog made of it ?

go back to the fifties dos its calling you

Mumsnet really is full of insufferable arseholes sometimes. All god forbid children play outside blah, blah, blah.

This isn’t about children playing outside and having fun. It’s about children screaming bloody murder like someone is skinning them alive.

Children playing is good, children having fun is good, children screaming for no bloody reason for hours on end is not good.

OP obviously isn't talking about kids playing at a normal level, she means kids that are knobs just screaming for no reason with no parent to tell them NO!

People justifying it probably have gobby kids themselves!

The issue is the time of day / length of noise.

Do you live on my road? For me it's early mornings, either before school or from 7am at weekends. The family three doors down kick their kids out and all hell breaks loose. I feel your pain.
(P.s - nerf gun or BB gun would probably shut them up! 🤣)

Laughing children really are a pain. In the arse. Who would want to hear them shrieking with excitement 🙄🙄

I always said that the noise of happy kids was a happy noise. I loved school group walking by chattering to each other, the white noise of them playing in the playground, etc.

Then the dastardly noisy children moved into the neighbourhood . They are a proper nightmare and I’m already dreading the summer, they screech until late at night. Kids will be kids but discobsiderate antisocial behaviour is present at all ages (or perhaps it is just the parents who do not give a shit about how unpleasant their bloody kids are.

I have this same issue with the kids three doors down too. Incessant screaming (and music) for hours and hours on the stupid fucking trampoline their mum carried down the road and leaned against my hedge causing damage.

Throughout last years ridiculous heat I couldn't have my windows open due to the constant noise - and my even more feral next door neighbours getting pissed right under my bedroom window every single night.

So many people on here complaining of the same things makes me wonder what's going on in the world.

I have a bigger problem with my neighbour's love of the perfect lawn 😀 we sit down on our deckchairs with beer or a bottle of cava and the radio and it starts up... I prefer the sound of his grandkids! Anyway the grandkids like to play with my dog otherwise he pesters me to play with him.

If my DDs wanted to go outside after 7pm they were told they could, as long as they were quiet. One argument or shriek and they'd be in for 3 days. As with everything the rule was tested and 4 days later they went out and stayed quiet.

But I don't allow screaming, too much shouting or out-of-control arguments even at reasonable hours.

There's such a difference in types of child noise. DDs go to soft play after swimming weekly and 3 weeks ago was great. It was loud, but cheerful, good-natured, playful. I realised that it hadn't been like that for a long while it's been shouty/argument, or alternatively dead quiet with just half a dozen kids. The atmosphere was so fun I let the DDs miss their swimming lesson for once and just play. If you have the wrong noise then wear&tear on nerves can be high.

Cliff richards on loop 👍

Really mean and nasty of you to call children ‘ferel’ .

We have the same issue but our s is because the children are rude and shout abusive terms over the fence whenever they see us in the garden from the trampoline - really vile abusive things that their mother doesn't stop them doing. We have reported them to the police and the council last year as they were throwing things over and threatening to stab us and all sorts (not at all frightened by them because they are literal children - they're no older than about 9) but it has taken all enjoyment from the garden completely as they're ALWAYS out on that damn thing and there's not a day without fail once they see us outside that they don't shout horrific things.

It may amaze some posters to know that children can have fun outdoors without screaming constantly!

As a kid there were 8 of us, we pretty much lived in the garden every summer (even camped out most nights) but mums rule was if she could hear us indoors we had better be indoors so we never ran around screaming out there.

Tbh I thought snivelling whingers and knobs was worse than feral.