Screaming children in the street

[NeverAgain123456]

I am the first to admit I’m a grumpy cow! Very intolerant and impatient.
I love living alone and being selfish, I don’t have to consider a man. I have lovely friends and am not sad and lonely.
I have 3 sets of neighbours with 2 or 3 children each. They turf the kids out after school and they play on the street outside until about 9pm every night and all weekend. They’re all aged about 4-10. They constantly scream. I don’t mind hearing children having fun but this is torturous. AIBU?

I feel your pain. Kids playing: fine. Kids screaming: not so much. It literally goes through you

I can't fucking STAND the sound of kids screaming. It's torture. I am also a grumpy intolerant cow.

It’s the screaming that is awful. I heard one of the mothers shouting out of her window at them earlier to not play in the road!!! WTAF? Why not mother them properly so they don’t have to play in the road.

9 is too late, play out til tea time and then inside is my rule. 9pm is inconsiderate.

Screaming and the constant thud of a football 😡

Yanbu

playing is one thing , screaming another , it would do my head in as well

Drives me mad cause most of the time they scream for no reason. Like why the hell do you need to scream bouncing on a trampoline or sitting in a swing? Stfu!! I won't be letting my daughter shriek in the street when she's older.

I have two kids who like to scream. Not on my fucking watch. There is absolutely no way it enhances the enjoyment of any game.

I tell them to stop the second it starts.

YANBU.

My kids play out in the street with next doors kids and next door but 1s kids. When they're playing together they arent that bad, but when next door are in their own garden, my god the screaming!

I’m not grumpy and intolerant on the whole and children screaming drives me insane. There is a huge difference between children playing and making noise and them screaming. I’d be telling them to stop.

I didn't let my kids stay in the garden if they were screaming. It's antisocial. They soon learnt - playing is fine and some noise is entailed. Screaming for fun is not on.

YANBU we have this every evening constant screaming until 10 every night and all weekend. Happy to hear children play and great they are outside but the screaming drives me mad. I wish the parents would tell them it is not on.

As long as the parents get rid of them outside and away, they don't care what noise their brats make!

On long summer days, the screaming goes on till 10pm.

We have this with one set of neighbours

They scream-all the bloody time

And throw their balls over the fence-screaming to get them back
Bounce on the trampoline-to look in our garden and scream
Bang scooters on the fence-and scream
Play with whatever they are playing with-and scream
One falls over her own feet-and screams so loudly you’d think she was being murdered

What makes it worse is the parents either join in or don’t tell them to shut up

We cannot enjoy our garden after school hours

Just to liven things up,they drag the kids in around 9 pm and stick them on the computer

3am and they are screaming on their headsets to their mates

I’ve reported them to the council but not holding my breath

Maybe I’m just old but I want to enjoy my home and garden when I’m not at work-not have to listen to non stop howling (if one had really hurt themselves then fair enough)

@NeverAgain123456

It’s the screaming that is awful. I heard one of the mothers shouting out of her window at them earlier to not play in the road!!! WTAF? Why not mother them properly so they don’t have to play in the road.

Ok, I comagree about the screaming. Mine are never allowed to scream. I'm also a childminder and the amount of children I get that are allowed and even encouraged to spontaneously scream random shit is shocking. Sometimes take a while to train that behaviour put of them, but what does mothering them properly mean, or have to do with them playing out together? Mine play out in the street with the neighbours kids because they all want to play together, what's wrong with that?

Completely agree, not comagree

I hate screaming children and the weird thing is I don't remember it being a thing when I was a kid or remember my son and his mates doing it when they were young, is it a recent thing that has become popular or am I looking back with rose-tinted memories?

Move. House. You'll exchange the on street screaming for loud music, cars coming and going at all hours and general racket and annoyance.

I loathe children screaming. I agree, it only recently seems to have become a thing. It's bad enough when some children on a side road off ours do it, but it now seems to happen in with younger children in every shop I go to.

@Fuckitsstillraining

I hate screaming children and the weird thing is I don't remember it being a thing when I was a kid or remember my son and his mates doing it when they were young, is it a recent thing that has become popular or am I looking back with rose-tinted memories?

Same here! I know I definitely didn’t scream because my mother was very strict about things like that and I don’t remember friends screaming either.

I'm not intolerant, impatient or grumpy but kids screaming is unnecessary and annoying and a sign of lazy and inconsiderate parenting.

I have kids in that age range and

1. They don't play outside after 8. Or in height of summer in the garden. With no screaming as a condition.
2. If they screamed more than is reasonable they would be brought in.

I remember when they were newborns and the older kids in the neighbourhood were out screaming at 10 at night and I was told, on here, to suck it up. I can't abide it and see no reason why it should happen.

There is a difference between kids having fun and unnecessary screaming and it shouldn't be too difficult for parents to figure out which is which. In my very humble opinion.

You'll get a lot of comments from people telling you YABU because children have suffered during COVID/parents are tired/children playing is better than them being on screens 24/7/children playing is a delightful sound/your life must be joyless/some children have SEN etc. etc. etc.

SEN-aside, YANBU. Children screaming is the bane of my summers where I live, to the point where I'm sometimes glad it's still raining in May.