A little background… Once upon a time… We moved into our home just over three years ago, we noticed very quickly that the neighbours children were loud.
Their trampoline was a few feet from our fence and they would, all three, bounce and scream until their hearts were content.
One afternoon their mother was shouting for their attention, asking why they weren’t listening, and I half jested to my partner that the children probably couldn’t hear her having deafened each other from the constant piercing squeals. I didn’t realise my own volume, and heard her say to the children, “think of the neighbours!”.
Cut to the next day, and mother ushered the children onto the trampoline, encouraging them to play a game that involved a lot of screaming, which in itself didn’t bother me, but the day before there seemed to be a brief concern about the level of noise, and now there was none at all, which made me wonder if this was now being done to be an annoyance.
The children steadily grow more obnoxious by the day, probably not helped by what seems to be a lack of attention from the parents, but there we are.
They are now friends with our direct neighbours children and so last year, kept appearing in the corner of their boundary and ours. We raised our fence a little this spring so they couldn’t see directly into our home but now they scale the tree just behind that raised fence and can see across pretty much our entire garden. I don’t care that they’re there, and to a degree can block out their incessant racket, I just don’t appreciate our privacy being encroached upon.
I’m not sure there is any talking to the parents as I think they hate us for daring speak about their little darlings screaming habits, (so much so one of them has now been given a whistle) but it does feel better to type this out.