As the title says, AIBU to ask the kids outside to stop screaming. We live in dead end street and the houses at each end of the street have kids aged I say 5-11 (I also have similar aged kids and so do every other house on the street plus a couple of babies). Our house is half way between the 2 and they end up playing outside of our house every night which is absolutely fine in itself, it’s nice hearing kids play.
But the little kid just SCREAMS constantly. Screams at his brother, screams and his friends, just continuous. Our living room is at the front of the house, we have the telly on and we can hear the screeching above the tv as I type this. It’s every single night And it’s beginning to wind me up. They’ve also hit our window, front door and cars before with their football (the car is on the drive but they just boot it, I’ve always gone out and spoken to them when I have heard this happen). Ironically we live 10 steps from a park which has ample room to play football.
I have tried to speak to his mum before about him playing right on the corner (it’s a blind bend, she lets him out to play alone even though he’s about 5 years old and I’m worried he’s going to get hit by a car) but she doesn’t speak very good English so I’m not sure if to approach her again
but I also don’t want to be a Scrooge when it is just kids playing. And to make it clear again, kids having a good time playing is a lovely sound, kids screeching and screaming at the top of their lungs from 4-8.30 every evening is not a nice sound