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.

The sound of children having fun is awful. Have you tried baking them in an oven and eating them?

@thigh 🤣😳😱

OP could you oil the trampoline? Problem solved.

Oh god I was thinking fuck me OPs talking about my kids but I've never been asked to keep the quiet before and no way I'd let them scream til 9:30... eek

However mine don't scream... they do argue a lot though

Get a mosquito alarm if its particularly bad - you can turn them off and on at will. I know a person who used it a handful of times and then the kids nd got the gist. Only problem is it can only be heard by people under 25 so unless you are a youngun or have a willing test subject you just have to hope it works

Walkingdeadfangirl yes, I’m a total monster for daring to think that I may watch TV in my living room without hearing ear-piercing shrieking. I’m also completely unreasonable to think that my DS should have his sleep disturbed by screaming permeating his bedroom at night in the interest of the kids down the road being able to ‘express themselves’.

You’re one of THOSE parents, aren’t you?

Ilnome awesome idea! Do you know the range of them? Would it work at a distance?

Started here too..

The start of spring is heralded by my effing neighbour taking all her phone calls outside .. shes of the opinion phones work best if you shout so shes doing that, 3ft from my patio doors where my home office is... this is so she can smoke.. and all her fag smoke comes into my house.

A few weeks on its likely to be back to 'small children play the game of scream like you are being violated', if last year was anything to go by. (Obviously I'll be told by 4billion MNetters that this doesn't happen and I've made it up).

I don't mind dogs barking and kids giggling and talking, I live in a terrace, that's going to happen. But screaming for the sake of it and shouting because you are a pig ignorant twat... not so keen.

I don't but my parents have a fairly long garden and the equally long garden that touches ours has one for some noisy trampoline loving kids - when you buy one you should be able to choose the range I guess

Basically it will work at a distance

AllesAusLiebe Yes, you have become one of 'those' parents.

It's not just under 25s who can hear it, I'm older than than that and I can. And stuff like lightbulbs, those quiet whistles for dogs etc.

Putting this out here...

'Speak roughly to your little boy,
And beat him when he sneezes;
He only does it to annoy,
Because he knows it teases.'

Yes, this is why I prefer the winter. Just seems quieter all round. Loved it when it was windy, drowns out most other noises.

So your were 8 months pregnant last summer and have a 6-12 month old infant.
I'm sorry, you have no idea, none of how your ds will be age 5,6,7,8 or indeed 12. By the time he is that age as long as no one is injured and no property is being damaged you let them get on with it. Homestly micromanagement of school age Dcs is not good for them.
Have a and and calm down.

Also we are about to crash out of the EU, if kids making noise at 18:45 is your greatest worry you are incredibley lucky.

I will take kids playing over my neighbours. I live in a block of maisonette (about 10) 3 families sit round all summer getting drunk and stoned in the garden then every evening they start arguing/fighting. Sometimes into the early hours. The police arrive which drives them indoors where they decide to carry on arguing with the music full blast.

When did shouting become screaming?

what about one of those super water guns! Hide behind the curtains so they don't know where it's coming from!

It's lovely hearing and seeing the kids playing out but there's ALWAYS one who screeches constantly and can't seem to play without doing so at the top of his lungs.

It's wind chimes that really get to me, the sound makes me irrationally irritated!

Yup already started here. Trampoline and screeching. Luckily I can't hear it in the house as the walls are very thick.
I always go and do my gardening with headphones on now. It's much better.
Luckily it's seagull breeding season early because of the warm weather so the little loves get dive bombed regularly and run inside screaming.

I brought up 2 children and they were never out in the garden screaming and we had a trampoline. It seems to me these days children cannot do anything quietly. Had mine have been screaming I would have been out there to tell them to think about the neighbours. Where I live now the neighbours have their huge trampoline right up by my patio and I can see it. Their grandchildren use it most days when the weather starts warming up and whenever they are out in the garden they make a racket with their shouting and screaming. I work as a supply teacher and the days I work I find it really bothersome to come home to after spending all day with noisy children and having been outside on break duty. I need to get away from that sound and have some peace.

I’m with you OP. It’s one of the reasons we live in the middle of nowhere. 1) so our kids could play noisily on a trampoline 2) so we didn’t have to put up with neighbours kids playing noisily on a trampoline

The sound of children having fun is awful.

Yes Walkingdeadfangirl, that's exactly what the thread is about.
Have you got a trampoline in your garden by any chance?