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! 😬

I don't understand the fashion for kids screaming and screaming these days . As a child I was told that screaming when you're not in trouble is like the boy who cried wolf

It depends what the noise is, if they are screaming I'd ask them to be a bit quiter. That's rude and the parents shouldn't allow it. I woikdnt let my DC scream outside and annoy everyone

Shut the door. Put some music on. Remind yourself that you were a child once and you too enjoyed having fun at some point...

Ffs let kids play. All people do is moan. Shut your door. Same old crap every summer from MN and local groups moan moan . As others said go live where you have no neighbours. But then probably moan about cows mooing.

If someone approached me about my kids playing over excited in the garden . I would tell them to report me for the noise. 🫠

@BallandBoe OP literally said "can't bear the idea of a full Summer of screeching kids!"

Only the 5th time this year? As long as its not early morning or late at night I'd let them get on with it. It's a battle to get my son off his tablet so I see kids playing outside as a positive thing.

Move to a block of flats with communal gardens, seems everyone is using it when they want but noone bothers others how to use it or how much noise to make/not make

you see , you own the patch of land but not the air space? that sort of thinking will rearrange your expectations

My sympathies. The ones round me are at it on either side out the back and when they get bored they're right out the front for good measure. Balls in my garden the lot.
But the parents are all lovely, so I grit my teeth and remind myself that they're at least getting lots of exercise and being healthy. They are very screamy though.

YANBU.

When my DC were young, I would never have allowed them to be screeching in the garden. Tbh, it would have grated on ME, so I always had more consideration and empathy for my neighbours.

I actually don’t mind the noise of children playing happily in gardens, but screaming and constant shouting is not pleasant to hear.

We used to have old people either side of us who never made any noise. It was only after they went and we had families move in either side that I realised how far sound travels when doors are open!
If you are very quiet at home, perhaps the parents don't realise how loud they are if you see what I mean.

Playing in the garden is normal as is laughing, talking and even the occasional shout, but there's no need for screeching. I personally can't listen to it. If my dc do it they're given a warning then brought in.

Stand outside and scream yourself.

It's very effective.

Or get a powerful hosepipe and 'just miss' when you water your garden 20 times a day.

@theemmadilemma 😂 ohhh yes of course that's what I do! Me and DH also join them in the garden and we all just stand their screaming for hours it's our favourite past time.

Kids screaming and screeching at the top of their voices is simply not necessary. There is a different between that and what I would consider normal noise. And there is certainly no need for it to go on for hours

Exactly this.

If we are actually talking about constant screaming!!! then ask your neighbours for the kids to stop constantly screaming.
I suspect it’s just kids playing.
so
Shut the door.

I love the sound of children playing but the constant screaming is a different thing.
On a recent trip to a very large Sainsburys a child was screaming at the top of her lungs. Not crying.Not shouting. Literally screaming. When I got to the checkout there she was, still screaming. Aged about five or six, in school uniform, with a younger sibling who added in their own scream. It was ear piercing. I tried my best teacher stare and she made eye contact but carried on. I really wanted to say something but mother didn’t look like someone to be reasoned with. Checkout operative heaved a sigh of relief when they left. Child still screaming in car park ad I left..

Move?

Can´t get wound up about this. Sorry. If on the other hand it was at night, you would have my sympathies. During daytime it is one of the sounds to be expected.

I can sympathise @WorkHardPlayHard1 .
My neighbour has a daughter and she voices all her play - talks to her dolls and explains what each one is doing. Very loudly.

A little boy several doors away calls out his sister name repeatedly and it's a name with several similar-sounding syllables, so much that both the mother and his sister have told him to stop. I hate the sister's name now.

NDN's DCs used to kick a football against the wooden fence, and it was bang-bang-bang can I have my ball back please all day every sunny day.

There is playing and playing.

But at one time kids were perfectly capable of having fun playing outside and making some noise, bit of shouting/loud laughter etc, without the shrill prolonged screaming a lot of today's kids seem to indulge. I was never allowed to do that as a child, I don't think my friends were either as I don't seem to remember them screaming, and before anyone says it no I didn't have a repressed, draconian or Victorian upbringing, I simply wasn't allowed to scream. And, shock horror, I was able to have a lovely time playing outside with my friends without any of us screaming at all. Who knew?

I honestly don't understand people on here who defend that awful screaming as 'just kids having fun' as though screaming was a necessary part of playing. It's not.

We've just moved. It's become apparent the bit of grass opposite my house is where the very young kids in the village like to congregate and play. For some reason I just can't get worked up about the noise (I probably know deep down this is karma for my own behaviour as a youngster).

Just the thought of this makes me go all shaky. I moved house due to a family of screechers moving in next to me. They proceeded to install full size bouncy castle for all year use, a swimming pool, hot tub, trampolines etc and invited most of their school friends after school and every weekend for a screeching session. Mainly girls who screamed at the top of their lungs. It was not "normal" household noise. Despite having a detached house, in a rural location with a very large garden due to them being so loud I could hear them over the TV with windows shut. I didn't venture into the garden for about 3 years as even noise cancelling headphones didn't drown them out. Lockdown was hell on earth.

I ended up selling my forever home that I had spent £££'s renovating. When I did due diligence on the next house I ensured there would be no neighbours who could affect me in the same way.

Would love to know if you find the answer?!!

My neighbours have only been here a couple of years, ones before were great, and everyone else in our cul-de-sac very considerate. But 'new' neighbours have 2 girls aged around 8 and 10, and all they seem to do is shriek and scream outside. It can start at 5am when weather nice, and go on for hours each day.

My problem is I'm disabled and bed bound, and conditions quite unpredictable. My pain levels may mean I can't sleep for days, or only sleep at certain times, and I'm constantly being woken by screaming. Unfortunately when the children scream, the parents yell over the top of them to shut up and I rarely get any peace. I constantly overheat, and like to have my bedroom window open for the air even in winter, but can't even do that now.

It's seriously driving me nuts and bringing me down, which is having a knock on effect on my health.

Carer has tried a polite word, but seems no-one else matters. And if it's not screaming and shouting, it's his bloody motorbike. 😞