Kids screaming in garden next door!

[WorkHardPlayHard1]

So for the 5th time this Spring/Summer, the kids next door are playing happily and very loudly in the garden next door directly into the open door of my kitchen.

I really like the adult neighbours (their parents) and really don't want to fall out with then.

Any suggestions of how to approach this as can't bear the idea of a full Summer of screeching kids! They are 10 and 7! 😬

Nonsense.

Some kids are 'screechers'. There have always been 'screechers'. Annoying as they are, they've always been there!

You're lucky it's only the 5th time this year.

Every day for me. They are actually 100yds away but I can hear them in my sitting room with all the door and windows closed.

We used to have such nice neighbours when we moved in. Sadly no more

You are counting? Only 5 times this year doesn't seem much to me

Not much you can do about it except close the door and use earplugs. I wouldn’t complain about children making a noise.

Not in my experience, parents used to say stop screaming and use your voice now parents never pull their kids up on it.

My neighbours are very considerate though and I hear the mum saying that we don't want to hear their constant bickering and she does send them in if they don't stop

The neighbour’s kids are playing in the garden, during school holidays and as kids do, make noises and I presume not screaming at the top of their lungs for hours for no reason… close your door and turn on some music, they’re doing nothing wrong

I have 2 children, my neighbour that backs on to me has children of the same age.

The noise level from their garden was horrific. It was constant, it was loud, and it wasn't just play noise, it was arguing, crying, fighting.

I knew their names and the names of several of their friends within the Spring half term because they were constantly being repeated, and at no stage did the mother try and get things to a lower level. In the end, I said something to them.

Absolutely everyone has a right to enjoy their own home and garden, but them enjoying theirs in the way that they were meant that we couldn't enjoy ours.

No one expects silence from their neighbours. My children make noise, my dog will bark, that's life with neighbours. But I am considerate. If the kids are screeching and arguing they get told to stop, or they'll have to come in. If the dog keeps barking and won't stop he gets sent in. I don't want to hear it and I chose to have them in my life, why would my neighbours want to?

Noise is normal. constant, excessive noise day in day out is selfish.

10 and 7 years old, a morning and it's during the holidays. I can't see what they're doing wrong. Just doing what we all did at their age.

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I don't object to laughing/talking/playing
Screeching and screaming at full volume where I can't use my own garden without earplugs because the paddling pool is a metre away from my window...
I keep the windows shut which is pleasant(!) in summer so I can work or customers complain, but I don't use my garden in summer unless it's very early morning
To add to that, they don't even live there but just use the garden all bloody summer

our next door neighbours house is currently up for sale. It's empty at the moment as they have moved into a care home. We have 2 sections to our garden - "upper" level is a patio/grass area, then there are 2 steps down to a slightly shaded area - this is our kids play area - it has climbing frame, play house and trampoline but it backs directly onto our neighbours garden.

I do wonder if sometimes people look around the house, see the play area and think christ no thanks 😮

My kids absolutely love it, but they're in bed by 7pm so no late night screaming here, but during the day they can play out as much as they want, but if they were excessively screaming I would tell them to tone it down a bit.

Kids are just being kids though, it's been a long winter for them too when they've not had much time to play out in their garden

Same. There is literally no need for constant (if any) screaming and screeching whilst playing. What an earth do they need to scream for?

You don’t approach it. They’re kids in their own garden happily playing.

Go stand in your garden and scream like a pterodactyl at the top of your lungs?

If you can't beat them, join them, and all that.

@ilovesooty

No. The poster said that screaming isn't allowed in their house at all and the kids talking loudly 'at times' is fine.

Each to their own and all that but I feel a bit sorry for the kids that seem to be on strict orders to play quietly in their own house/garden…

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Unfortunately, living in close proximity to others comes with upsides and downsides. The only way to avoid it is to buy a house with sufficient grounds around it to make any neighbour noise too far away to hear.

Not much you can do unless you know the parents well enough to ask them to calm them down a bit. You could put calming music on a speaker and try to focus on that, you never know it might even chill them out.

I don’t think there is anything you can or should do. They are children. They make noise. If you live in close proximity to others, you have to expect this kind of thing. As others have said, I think you either close the door or move house. Sorry.

I have 3 boys and my neighbour told me last year that “whenever we hear your kids enter the garden we go in because we can’t bare their voices”.
my rules are that if we’re in a busy park and my kids are being loud I ask them to tone it down. But in our own safe garden environment I allow a little loud laughing and fun because it’s their safe environment. I wouldn’t let them constantly scream obvs but I encourage them to have fun and laugh as loud as possible before they get older and not want to play in the garden. Plus, if they’re playing in the garden and being kids then they’re not holding a damn controller or iPad. I won’t stop my kids having fun due to neighbours complaining about kids being kids.

OP didn't say anything about screaming and screeching.

They said that the kids were playing loudly.

I think sometimes people don't realise how loud. Last time there was a thread like this, everyone piled on saying I was unreasonable
Then I posted a video from inside my own house and everyone went "oh god no, not like that"

Your poor neighbours if you think it's perfectly acceptable to allow your kids to scream all day.

@thelinkisdead is teaching her children consideration for others which is to be appulauded. I doubt she's stopping her kids being kids.

It massively depends on if they’re actually screaming or just being normal children?
I’m always happy to hear kids playing in the garden but it’s not fair to make excessive noise. I always told my kids to be mindful of the neighbours. That’s not to say they didn’t sometimes start screeching, but when they did, I’d remind them to keep it down.

My dds can screech like banshees. When they get on my nerves I reign them in to ‘pipe down’. The parents really should be telling them to keep the noise down.

Maybe play some loud music like opera, they’ll probably recoil and go back inside 😂

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