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! 😬

Apart from anything else, if kids constantly scream when they play out, how's anyone supposed to be able to tell if one day the screaming signifies that a child is in danger?

Absolutely this. My ex neighbours were screamers. Screamed and screamed all day long.

Actually they don't need to scream and screech to play. They can talk, laugh and giggle without screaming. I can't bear the awful screaming that children do in the playground. Not necessary.

Theyre school aged so theyre not constantly in their garden are they?
Shut the kitchen door stop focusing on them. Listen to music thru earphones or get noise cancelling headphones.

Failing that, move to a child-free street/rurally if social noise bothers you that much.

Why is it always the person being inconvenienced who's expected to make all the accommodations on this type of thread??

What person?

Everyone has to be considerate of each other. Who raises their children to scream regardless of other people in other gardens?

there's a difference between normal child play sounds of laughing, and calling out or the occasional scream if someone gets splashed with water and incessant screeching and shrieking for no apparent reason. It's like nails down a blackboard.

Move. Children can play in their garden however they want at 11am.

Quite a few people on this thread, from the looks of things.

Move up here to Yorkshire. It's fucking freezing and absolutely NOBODY is out in their garden, screaming or otherwise.

It's lovely and quiet. But freezing.

I guess it depends at what level the noise is. But we have 4 that play in the garden most days its fine and if they were screaming and screeching I would have something to say to them. Luckily they don't and play quite well.

I have adults next to me who shout and screech for most of the day and night, it starts at around 11am and goes on til past midnight. They have their back door and windows open in all weathers so the sound carries to my home, so you have my sympathies. With children I would expect noise, in fact the other side of me have two little ones and I enjoy hearing them laugh and play. They are little so they cry too at times, again this just wafts over my head. It is adults who get to me, they really should know different and be capable of having consideration for others. I use earplugs or have the radio on, when it is really bad I go into the front of my house to escape. I try very hard to be a considerate neighbour, keep my TV at a reasonable volume, use the hoover no earlier than 9am and no later than 8pm, I don't play my music loud. Sadly many people only think of themselves.

You must live near me.
My next door neighbours have their grandkids living with them and the kids, aged about 9 and 5, just holler and scream at each other in the garden. They are incapable of speaking in normal voices, even when just sitting next to each other. It is absolutely unbearable and another reason why I hate the warmer months.
When we were kids, if we were screaming or shouting, we would be told to come back in and to consider the neighbours but I never once hear my neighbours tell them to keep it down. Makes me so angry.

You can't. We ignored a child screaming at my last house as she screamed all the time
Turns out she had tried to climb up to her bedroom window and was dangling
Eventually I went out but she fell as I opened the door, landed on the patio and broke both her legs

People can't control their kids which speak the same language as them but people are expected to control dogs

But you do own the airspace above your house up to a certain point. Hence why you don't have to tolerate neighbours trees and structures etc hanging into your garden,

@DeeCeeCherry , the little boy I mentioned has a very loud voice that carries. Their house is about 4 doors away. He is too young for school.
As soon as his sister comes home from school he calls her name non-stop.
I can close the door, but I am a keen gardener and it's spoiling my enjoyment.

I ignore the NDN's daughter but she is loud, and she bosses her father around in a way that i would find unacceptable. I'm not her parent, but I don't like hearing her talking to her dolls or her dad like that.

Oh no, how awful. That's exactly the kind of thing that I worry about and partly why I think parents should discourage excessive screaming.

😂👏🏼

Exactly

You have my sympathy, OP. We live next to a park. Over the years we’ve been exposed to all sorts of unwanted noise, but it’s a public park so pretty much to be expected. It’s really nice hear the children playing, laughing and having fun, but over the last couple of years, the screaming has become unbearable. It’s not squealing or little ones being chased as in a game, it’s full on blood curdling screams. Often, the parent or adult with them is just sitting staring at their phone while the child lets rip. I even watched two teenage girls having a screaming competition the other day. You know, just for fun.

I dont think you can expect quiet in your garden if you have neighbours, thats why some people pay a high premium to not have neighbours within earshot

Given the opportunity my own children would win a playing in the garden shrieking competition. I have to regularly tell them to calm down and if I'm aware that other neighbours are out in their garden and my children aren't reining it in a bit, I'll either take them out or bring them in to do something else for a short while to change the dynamic. When they go back out they're then calmer. I do think children should be able to enjoy themselves but I think my neighbours should too and I think constant days of shrieking is a bit much (I know I'm glad when I can hear myself think come the evening).

I think the only really acceptable thing you can say is next time there's relevant conversation you say "sounds like the kids have been having fun in the garden - isn't it so nice the weather has turned isn't it".... if it were me I would hear that as kids are a bit too loud but without any animosity, however it could be interpreted as acceptance of the volume but there's nothing you can do about that.

I'd be annoyed but if it's after 8am and before 10pm I'd be deal with it begrudgingly

I wonder what you were doing at the time for an adult to feel the need to tell you that 🤔