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! 😬

Characterising children screaming as a 'to hell with everyone else' attitude is absolute hyperbole. There's also no mention of 'long periods of time' in the OP, so you've exaggerated there again. Not to mention that children don't scream for long periods of time, unless your idea of a long period is half an hour of on and off noise.
Are you sure you have read my and OP's posts correctly?

Those saying the OP should suck it up, would you say the same if it was dogs barking? After all that'd be dogs just being dogs.

Buy some chalk for them, that shuts kids up.

show them how to draw a target and concentrate on getting a stone in the middle.
hopscotch.
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Absolutely this, my kids are grown up adults but when they were younger if they started screaming or arguing they got told to turn the volume right down, the neighbours don't want to hear it!

Complaints when kids are on screens, complaints when kids are outdoors.

If you don't like neighbours then shut your door/wear headphones/move somewhere with no neighbours.

It doesn't sound like they were out playing at 10pm last night so I don't understand what the issue is.

Why should I have to wear headphones? So the children can scream and yell and shriek as much as they want until... is there a cut off age?
Part of living is being considerate of other people, not letting your children be so loud your neighbours is wearing noise cancelling headphones
If someone blasted music constantly or a dog barked all the time people would complain at that but provided they're under what, 10 years old, it's absolutely fine?

If they get upset with a polite and courteous approach (conversation not phone call or note), then they are not the kind/nice neighbours you think they are.

Don't be a doormat.

If the dog was experiencing severe separation anxiety or being mistreated then it wouldn't be OK. But a dog that is going in and out the house, barking as a result of stimulation? Yes, suck it up.
Back to the children - I live just down the road from a primary school of 800 pupils. At break times I am consistently incredulous at just how loud they can be. But it is just what children do, isn't it? It's part of living next door to other people that you hear them behave normally. For adults that's probably watching sport on the TV, and for kids it's screaming on the trampoline.

Perfectly put, @aperolspritzbasicbitch.

I love it when I hear the local kids playing outside - I live in Scotland, so it’s a treat when the weather is good enough for them to play out - but all our neighbours are considerate, and there isn’t lots of constant screeching or screaming.

It’s about consideration all round - I don’t expect silence, but I do appreciate the neighbours’ being considerate about noise.

800 children will indeed make a lot of noise (that's a massive Primary school BTW!).
The playing noise of a bunch of kids is very different to just a few children screaming. If one of my children wanted to speak to me when they were out and I was in, I would expect them to come in and call me, not just scream MUMMY from the garden.

Another one who doesn't parent her kids.

Move house because you can't be bothered to tell your kids to stop screaming? You're having a fucking laugh.

I live just down the road from a primary school of 800 pupils. At break times I am consistently incredulous at just how loud they can be.

"Down the road" is not right next to your garden.

Why should kids have to stay in because you don't like their noise?

They don't have to stay in. They can play, chat, laugh, whatever without the shrieking and screaming
It's like the difference between a sober group of adults having a chat, and a drunk group. There's a noticeable difference in noise

I have two children right next door, aged 10 and 6. Both are lovely children and the parents spend as much time as possible actually playing with them. They rarely shout or scream and are a joy to hear, especially the little girl singing.

HOWEVER, when their cousin comes to visit it's a completely different story, he is ridiculously loud, rude, incapable of playing with anything, and destructive. We are always well aware that he is there. I feel pity for whoever lives next door to him because one hour of his noise gives you a severe headache.

We were told never to scream unless seriously hurt or being murdered.
I taught my dc the same.

what I hate is why do people decide to fling all their windows open with a huge speaker on the window sill and blast shit loud music out for all the street/estate to hear at the first sight of any sunshine. they seem to be able to listen to it at a reasonable level where just their household can hear it every other season of the year but summer they seem to think everyone wants to hear it! drives me mad.
I don't mind hearing children playing but I have a family a few doors down who's child constantly blasts a football at one of those metal sheds drives me crazy. parents never tell the child not to do it. it's been going on for about 4 years now I'm surprised the Shed is still standing.

I was actually addressing your post where you said 'children can do anything they like in their garden at 11am' so presumably you meant literally 'anything they like'. Or is that hyperbole as well?

My neighbours grandkids are so loud I literally heard them in the nearby park which my garden backs onto earlier today.
As I said before, they holler at each other, scream, cry and throw tantrums and yell at the top of their voices and christ are their voices grating. Whiny and irritating. If any mother is concerned about their teenage daughter getting pregnant they should come and stay at my house for a bit. Listening to those kids is the best form of birth control ever.
Absolute bloody nightmare. Makes me so angry.

But maybe they ARE screaming at the top of their lungs?

No-one minds laughing and some raised voices and shouting but screaming and screeching is unnecessary. It goes right through you...

You could consider playing deeply serious modern classical music loudly in your garden when they are out? Worked very well at the bus stops round us, got rid of the teenagers no bother!

You would really hate us. Our 4 kids play out most days and can be quite noisy. If the neighbours asked me to make them keep it down I would probably encourage music instruments in the garden for the next few days. Give them something to actual moan about.

So five times this whole year they've been loud and everyone is up in arms at the little shits/crap parents blimey.

I guess yes there is a balance of usual kids having fun noise and actual screeching but yes they are going to make a noise in their gardens during the summer months.