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).

Did you tell them OP????

YABU, it’s a one off, let them have fun. This is my life permanently until October 😡😡

@Readysetcake are you my neighbour too? I hate the summer when next doors kids are out screaming at each other, the dad screaming at them and the constant fucking bang of their footballs hitting the fence.

Noise is fine until 11pm.

Noise is fine, but shrieking and screaming is never ok. My kids get told of if they start screaming of shrieking. No one wants to hear that. It's so annoying.

There's a block of flats behind my house where a group of clampit scrubbers hang around outside they're flats shouting and drinking tilll all hours everyday! Made even worse in the summer
I've asked them politely to be quiet and turn the music down they're we're waking my 1 year old and 4 year old.
They responded with wind my neck in and get back in the house.
No real point in my reply but I feel your pain
Side note- I can't wait to move :(

Sorry, also banging. Any kind of banging noise, gets told.

I'm prone to migraines though, so I'm quite intolerant of loud, annoying noises. You can have fun without them.

When my son was early teens, we allowed a group of friends to camp in the garden for one night during summer holidays. Our next door neighbour was away on holiday and we have open farmland on the other side, so it didn't seem like there would be a problem about noise.

About around 11PM they all came running inside, insisted there was a ghost who was throwing stones and water at the tent. We had to let them camp in our lounge and got very little sleep.

Afterwards we discovered that our neighbours GS was staying the house with his GF. It became obvious who the ghosts were. Never repeated this again.

Hi. LIVE AND LET LIVE.

LMAO. That's funny.

If they are shrieking I would speak to them immediately.

This afternoon I could hear a group of children literally shouting and screaming for about two hours in their pool. They are a couple of streets away, so it was more background noise for us, but their immediate neighbours must have been tearing their hair out. They sounded youngish (definitely not teenagers) so there must have been adults with them. I would never let my children behave like this. Really inconsiderate :(

Why are these teenagers screaming, camping out in the garden,and perhaps having a drink,and some music,does not require screaming ! They surely do not yet understand about neighbours and all things.

Zebraaa
That's the council noise rules. Between 11pm and 7am are deemed night time hours.
Outside those hours noise might be inconvenient, but it's not an issue.

I do think some on MN need to get a grip on reasonable vs unreasonable noise. In recent months I've seen the following classed as noise issues that need reporting:
Neighbours have a social gathering and are chatting in the garden early evening.
Someone uses electric gardening equipment on a weekend afternoon
Children playing in a quiet cul de sac
Children playing in their gardens at anything other than whisper volume
Neighbour plays a portable radio whilst gardening on low
Builders doing building work within permitted hours

The screaming in the OP sounds irritating and horrendous, but as a one off mid evening there's nothing that can be done beyond a friendly knock to the neighbour

At about 10.30 they calmed down. If it looks like they are camping out again tonight I'll go over a talk to their parents so we don't have a repeat performance.

lola
I've seen loads of posts that describe noise that is well beyond your descriptions - loud, persistent and unnecessary with no respect for the needs of neighbours to enjoy their right to live in peace - such as dogs barking endlessly, footballs kicked into their cars in the street, kicked persistently into their gardens, glasshouses getting smashed by errand balls, loud music and cackling, trampolines up against neighbours fences with grinding spring noises day and night and kids etc etc

All of these are avoidable - just requires parents/home owners to take their kids and dogs to the park for most excitable play and ball games, and for party music to entertain their guests - not the whole street, and to put 'play equipment' as far away from neighbours as possible.

I'm lucky - blessed so far with good neighbours - but we are all only one house move away from the nightmare neighbour.

StoneofDestiny
I've also seen posts about very real noise nuisances. I've lived near a nightmare neighbour. Their parties could be heard up the street (where we were).

It just amuses me that there's quite a bit of pearl clutching on here over what is a normal part of living near other people. Now we're in the summer holidays I'm looking forward to the 'AIBU to think neighbour shouldn't be using a hedge trimmer at 11am when I'm trying to have peaceful enjoyment of my garden' posts.

I'd call cheerily over the fence and say "I know you're having fun, but would you mind keeping it down a bit as the kids are going to bed now".

What are they screaming about? I've got a 15 year old dd so probably should know the answer. I hear her laughing with friends but not screaming.

Yes when did young girls start screaming so much and when and why did it become acceptable.

My nieces never screamed when young. The 5 year old next door seems to scream a lot and is unable to play in the garden without screaming non stop.

I have no problem with the sound of children playing, laughing etc but the screaming is just unnecessary and gives me a migraine

YANBU - it's selfish when people have no choice but to have the windows open.

Bit early @grincheux

Oh I dont know, pretend you're on a night shift then

Shrieking is the worst. Luckily most of my boys and their friends dont shriek (except for my 11 yr old who was swiftly sent.to.his room twice after being warned about shrieking). Goes right through me and cant stand it

mydogisthebest
Teen girls screaming has been increasing in the last couple of years. It seems to go hand in hand with an obsession of having oh so much drama going on. Like, you know, basically the first rule of some teen girls is that you must have lots of drama, whilst claiming you are totally like over the drama.

The grumpy side of me thinks this reality TV where people have vacant conversations with wildly exaggerated emotional responses isn't helping.

Girl 1 - So you know, like Charlie was texting Hannah the other night and like I asked him if he felt if was ok and he was like 'omg I can't believe you're so jealous you need your head checking woman'
Posse of girls - (shrieks) HE. DID. NOT??

I've recently overheard y7/8 students talking about romantic relationships and how they are 'literally so over the drama', said to a private group of a dozen other girls and all are loving the drama.

Vapid conversations. Baby brain there couldn't get the right word

this reality TV where people have vacant conversations with wildly exaggerated emotional responses isn't helping

This is so true, ridiculous behaviour guaranteed to make even the most intelligent sound dumb.