Neighbourhood Kid Noise

[NoisePolice5]

Ok, so I’m preparing to be flamed but don’t think I’m being unreasonable. However, I’m open to opinion hence posting this.

i live in a densely populated area and the neighbourhood kids are out playing from the time they get home from school until it gets dark. I have no issue with this except they shout and scream that whole time. I’m not exaggerating- their new thing is making monkey/ape noises for fucking hours and given the hot weather all of our windows are open wide and we have no choice but to listen to the screaming/noise.

The parents say/do nothing. In fact they make it worse by screaming at their kids from INSIDE their houses when they want to get their attention or call them in. Is it me? Am I the grouch? I just feel that not everyone who doesn’t have kids should be forced - and it is forced - to hear them shrieking from dawn until dusk.

YANBU.

You have to expect and tolerate some kid noise. That’s just life and part of living around people.

However constant shrieking and shouting is not normal or good. The parents should be ideally telling them to stop that.

A little bit is normal as kids get excited and play games with each other. But if it’s constant, no. You can’t expect your neighbours to put up with constant shrieking but you’re going to get a lot of parents on here who will say you’re being unreasonable and kids will be kids. This is because they’re the type of parents who allow their kids to do the same. Everyone else be damned.

We used to play with other kids in the neighbourhood outside a lot when I was a kid. If we were being too noisy and it was bothering someone they themselves would come out and ask us to keep the noise down. And they would ask us nicely.

They didn’t become resentful, angry or critical of parents because they dealt with their issue and communicated like a mature adult should be able to.

I live somewhere like this, loads of kids out playing until very late in the summer and I can honestly say it doesn’t bother me at all. My kids tend not to be too noisy in comparison and I will tell them to stop if they were making too much after say 8pm when other people might be putting kids to bed.
Its just background noise to me but I guess if you feel that children shouldn’t be allowed to behave like that then it would annoy more and you would hear it more if you see what I mean.