Kids screaming in the garden behind ours

[imtootiredforthis]

As we all know the heat has been unbearable this week.

Temperatures have dropped sharply over the last hour or so here, we have a huge storm rolling in but while it’s cool and breezy, I’ve opened the windows to let some air into the house.

The kids in the house behind us are screaming. Not the type of screaming laughter that’s bearable, but just screaming. It’s unbelievable. I wanted a nice calm evening after a few rubbish days and they’re making it impossible to relax. I don’t want to shut the windows because we need some air in the house.

AIBU to scream back at them?

It’s cooled down for the kids too you know, I’m out with my children after they’ve been stuck inside for 2 days! Stop being miserable

Omg I feel your pain. We have fairly small gardens and there are two girls in the house at the back. They scream and scream and fight and cry all day and shout and shriek at the top of their lungs. It makes our garden unbearable. They’re not just playing. It’s way beyond that. The parents are there too but never tell them to stop.

I’m not actually screaming though, they are.

Well of course. You're the grown up.

I really feel for you. My neighbour has had paddling pool parties for every kid in the neighborhood every day this week. They all scream and yell for hours on end. I work from home but had to shut my laptop down and go out because I didn't trust myself not to scream back at them.

For goodness sake cut them some slack this week of all weeks. Everyone’s normal routine is out the window . At least you can relax and tune out. I’m just delighted I don’t have very young children to look after this week it must be hell in earth. On a normal evening I’d absolutely shout into them to keep it down but this isn’t normal weather

I feel for you 1 side we have screaming kids (whenever they're outside not just in the heat), + dogs left out to bark and on the other just "the loud"'family.
I find it hard to blank out.

They shouldn’t be allowed to 🤷🏻‍♀️ they’ve finally gone to bed, after a screaming match regarding the fact it’s “not fair” they have to go to bed.

Get them away on holiday, ASAP

I'd normally be right there with you but right now I'd swap some screaming kids or a barking dog for the neighbour venting her tumble drier exhaust through my living room patio doors wiith improperly rinsed detergent (shit infused hot water smell) and dryer stink pearls to cover the shit smell. It's like being suffocated in the toilet of a sweet shop that's on fire.

Still, you have my sympathies.

What kind of psychopath uses a tumble dryer in 35 degree + heat?!

Maybe yours do.

My children were taught that the only acceptable reason was if they were in pain or danger - and if they did otherwise it was not only rude and annoying, but put them at risk because they’d end up being ignored in an emergency.

We were trying to enjoy dinner with friends on our patio and couldn’t even hear eachother speak due to piercing shrieks and continuous screams from the garden backing onto us. Not against kids having fun but why the fuck should we not be able to use our garden?

Ones with horrible hay-fever 😩 6yo DS is on 2 prescription meds twice a day just to control his hayfever well enough for him to function - and even on those he occasionally gets sent home because he's not coping. There's no way I'm hanging his clothes and bedding outside to get pollen all over them!

Re the OP - sounds like those kids were bickering / arguing, not screaming. I would think of "just acreaming" as an unrelenting, high-pitched "AAAAAHHHHHH". TBH I think many adults across the country have argued with their partners, raised their voices more than normal, picked fights about things that don't matter etc, just because they're sleep deprived, uncomfortable, and irritable. I've definitely heard more raised voices from my neighbours on both sides than I normally do, and I'm pretty sure they've heard more from us too. Kids are the same - they're arguing to get their tension and stress out.

Ah that makes sense! Sorry to hear of your suffering.

I truly feel your pain @imtootiredforthis

We have a family behind us; three primary age kids. They do nothing but SCREAM all day long.

They don't laugh.
They scream.
Their parents don't give a shit about their neighbours, and let them carry on screeching to their hearts content.

As long as they are alright that's all that matters I suppose 🙄

Learning to self regulate? What a load of old rollox.. words ruddy fail me..

Speak for your self . Many kids have had a crap day as well .

Would annoy me tbh! I have a private garden now and my two are a little older (13 & 10) so they know better, but before here I lived in a maisonette which attached to the block of flats (next to me) garden. My children played with the other kids in the block and we adults all sat out together. V ‘common’ as you can imagine 🤣 but I was very wary to parent my children and make it known they weren’t to be screaming etc outside! What the rest did was out of my control but I wouldn’t let my kids continuously scream outside for all to hear.

Enjoy your garden, play, laugh, run, but do not scream. Screaming is for danger. Always told my kids that. They grew up to naturally dislike screaming people. At my daughter’s 18 birthday my 75 year old father commented how none of her friends were screaming at her party. My friends and I can remember the silly screaming girls from school and Uni. I am a fun person who still thinks I am in my twenties but it is no to screaming

You need a very powerful long reach hose pipe

There's been a marked change, I think, since Covid,

Yes, Covid was awful. Lost a family member and a dear friend to it.

But life changes all the time, every day. The heat on now is unprecedented, no wonder people are flaking out, kids in the garden happy to be out after stuck inside all day in 30 plus degree heat.

Let them be kids. I bet mum is flaking out too keeping it all together. I know I am

You need a very powerful long reach hose pipe

Way to piss off the neighbours.

Thank fuck I don't live anywhere near you.

Yawn, yet another child bashing thread.

Bloody misery.