Girls screaming in the garden - stfu!!!!

[MagicKingdomDizzy]

I'm bloody melting in my house at the moment!

Next doors teenage girl has about 5 friends over (probably to celebrate the end of term), and they are camping in the garden.

They have been shrieking in the garden since about 4pm. Loud, ridiculous and getting worse.

Have been trying to put my children to bed since 7pm. No luck. They can't sleep if the windows are closed, and we can't open the windows as the screaming is fucking ridiculous!

AIBU to give them till 10pm, then go in the garden to tell them to fucking shut up?!

(Disclaimer - this heat may be making me temporarily unreasonable).

Apols - you didn't mention GCSEs, that is me projecting. Just end of term - tell them to be quiet then

What time do you children get up OP? It's so warm they'll need to run around in the garden noisily first thing won't they?

I never understand why some people think it's ok to leave your kids scream anywhere. Totally unnecessary.

Aargh the mention of people's noisy neighbourhood kids screeching in the garden is making me worry that you're my neighbours...I do try to tell my oiks (6 and 9) to keep it down when it gets too much or otherwise order them inside if they sound like they're actually murdering each other.
Anyway, yanbu op. Give them a knock and ask them to volume it down a bit.

I'm really sensitive to noise and screaming goes straight through me. Definitely be polite but asking them to be quiet is perfectly reasonable!

My 5yo amused me earlier by asking a stranger, who was loudly shouting at her dog just outside our open lounge window, 'excuse me but please will you be quiet?' Rude woman shouted 'no' and stormed off but I admired his assertiveness!

Noise is fine until 11pm.

If you shout over the fence, the parents will hear you, but you can then pretend you didn’t know they were there! Something along the lines of you thought they must not be there as the noise was so loud. If you get to speak to them you can elaborate on how many other small children in the road they are likely disturbing.

I wondered if this was one of mine on a sleepover yesterday!

It annoys me too and I am constantly telling them not to do it

I have just had a right go at my 16yo she seems to have literally no concept of noise levels. I am quietly sorting out the pets all the windows open street is quiet, she comes stomping down the stairs in a mood then shouting her mouth off about this that and the other then when told to be quiet goes upstairs and bursts into her sisters room with something else unimportant to talk at the top of her voice about

Wouldn't tell at the kids over the gate but go knock on the door and complain directly to the parents. They are the ones who've allowed them to camp outside so its they're responsibility to make sure they're behaving which bu the sounds of aren't doing very good job of it.

First day of the school holidays where I live and next door's 3 children and quite a few of their friends have been in their garden from 10am until 7pm screaming and shouting almost non stop.

The daughter next door who is 5 has screamed and screamed and driven me mad.

I don't have a problem with children playing but to let them make so much noise and for such a long period. Obviously I have had my windows open and their noise drowned out my tv.

I never heard the children being told to be a bit quieter but I did hear mum shouting "Oh for fucks sake" quite a few times.

I suffer from migraines and thought at one stage I was going to get one.

I am now dreading the next 6 weeks

Noise from the garden, whilst annoying, is probably ok until 10/11pm.
If it gets to 10:30 I'd knock and say you're struggling to get your DC to sleep and their noise isn't helping. The parent should be able to remind them.

One thing I've found taking teens camping is that those who don't camp regularly seem to forget that tents aren't soundproof membranes. I've found out more gossip than I wanted to this way.

Are we neighbours @MagicKingdomDizzy ?

Seriously there is a screamer where i live, all day every day she is out playing unsupervised with all the other kids, but she literally screams all the time. I am sick of hearing her. Its relentless and there is no need for it. No wonder her parents just leave her to it.😫

At the risk of going off topic, why do little girl's scream?

I'm probably just old, but I can't remember DD or her friends being screamers. Or perhaps they were but I was immune to it.

It's a one off. If it gets to 11 then I'd pop round and say do you mind if we quieten down now. Enough is enough.

My neighbours used to have weekly parties in the garden every summer, really annoying esp when their youngest (4) used to call my then 18 month old so she would stand up in cot and wave out the window.

Nothing bad happened, daughter laid down and conked out. They shut u about 11.

I think you make your own anger in these situations and wind yourself up.

I don’t get when it was deemed ok to let your kids out screaming. Noise is ok but screaming is another level.

Last summer I had kids (that I didn’t recognise) having a 'who can scream the loudest' competition outside my house.

I went out to tell them to scream outside their own front door and they told me their mum told them to move and do it somewhere else cos it was annoying her!!

It's the homeowner who need to supervise noise at their home, inside and out, speak to them.

Carelessly water your garden maybe?

Surprised some people are saying noise till 11pm is ok? What about people who have work and have to get up at 5/6am?!

Hopefully they listen to you

Jesus just stuck your head over the fence and ask them nicely to keep it down, and explain that the kids can't sleep, say you hope they have fun. Thank them foe understanding. If they are then rude or carry on a lot knock on and have word with parents. If that doesn't work don't be so polite.

Run as fast as you can to their front door and start hammering on it. Shout through the letterbox "ARE YOU OK? DO YOU NEED ME TO CALL THE POLICE? DO YOU NEED AN AMBULANCE?" then when someone answers the door wondering what all the banging is about, tell them that the amount of loud screaming you heard made you think someone was being murdered.

I don’t mind listening to kids laugh and play, I have two kids myself, but I’ve never allowed the high pitched screaming. The lady across the road allows her daughter to do it nearly every night till late. I find it annoying and rude to let her continue doing it! Mind you this young girl is a spoiled brat who gets away with everything,that’s another story!

Please tell me they're not still shrieking...

We have loads of screamers near us, too. I’ve told each of them to keep it down on so many occasions but the kids themselves don’t give a shit, and neither do the parents. Sometimes they’re out in their gardens until midnight with various other kids screaming, whining, and screeching. I don’t know why they make such a bloody racket, my kids don’t make such high-pitched dying animal noises whether indoors or out. I need to move to the countryside 😩

I never understand why parents let kids scream endlessly, l used to stop mine playing if they screamed( unless being chased by a tiger of course)... they soon stopped it’s really not hard.