Screaming kids

[BurgerQuean]

Is anyone else getting frustrated by the sheer volume of the children living around them? I think the poor things must be sick to death of being stuck inside so much because they get let out in the afternoon and it is non-stop screaming and shrieking from about 2pm til 6pm at the moment. The ones in the garden behind me have been given a few lengths of metal piping to play with for the last few days, so we’ve got that delightful auditory experience added into the mix.

I would suggest on our neighbourhood Facebook group that maybe some kind of collective break time could be introduced so that all the screaming takes places in the same pre-arranged hour, but I suspect I would be flayed alive for the suggestion maybe I could offset that by dropping gin miniatures round to the poor parents. I can’t imagine they’re enjoying it any more than I am.

I hope your situation has changed as we are now having to move. I’m sorry but it’s absolutely bloody ridiculous. Totally lazy parenting. Why on Earth is it so dam difficult to say ‘sweetheart play but don’t scream and shout’ and yes a few times till they get it. At one side we have 8 kids shouting and screaming and the other side on stop screaming like it’s a default sound. Not one adult can be heard saying a thing. Given that we live 30 seconds from the park it’s so lazy and unfair on them. Sorry but they sound feral what exactly are people putting into society?!

@GeorginaBell

I hope your situation has changed as we are now having to move. I’m sorry but it’s absolutely bloody ridiculous. Totally lazy parenting. Why on Earth is it so dam difficult to say ‘sweetheart play but don’t scream and shout’ and yes a few times till they get it. At one side we have 8 kids shouting and screaming and the other side on stop screaming like it’s a default sound. Not one adult can be heard saying a thing. Given that we live 30 seconds from the park it’s so lazy and unfair on them. Sorry but they sound feral what exactly are people putting into society?!

How many children do you have?

None, all the children in my life are all my family and friends and never ever do they behave like that. But then their parents would never let it carry on and on.

Exactly playing sounds are just that but this on top of everything we are personally going through is just awful. They really need to be in the park and I can’t believe how many families near us never take them it’s literally 30 seconds walk. You can see all the others going with theirs from much further away. I honestly don’t get it and it’s so unfair on the shift workers and elderly people around us.

Yeah, send the little buzzards back to their PlayStations!

Or just simply stop screaming on and on like millions of other kids are nurtured not to but that requires a little effort from their parents.

Hmm I’m on the fence here. It really has been a shit year and a bit for children and I think a lot of parents have forgotten how to go for days out etc. The noise doesn’t bother me and our house appears to be quite well sound proofed anyway, but on my street it’s the complete lack of boundaries of certain children. They literally run across front gardens even in front of the homeowners, jump over low fences, litter, leave toys in the street. A few weeks ago I nipped to the shop in the next village and came back to find a go kart perfectly reverse parked on my drive in the space I’d left behind! 🤷‍♀️ This is a nice area too but some of the children seem to not have any boundaries at all.

Oh no that’s unfair and yeah we have that too. Jumping over walls smashing the plants we bought and killing them with the ball. I totally agree it’s been hard but it’s really no effort at all to at least ask them to stop screaming and walk them 30 seconds it’s actually really unfair on the kids themselves. We feel like they can take advantage of the peace and decency we provide and we just have to take it. We have it at 3 sides of our home.

You have to pick where you live, there are hardly any children up our road, it's a 1930s cul de sac with about 70 houses on it, when DS was small there were 3 other DC up the road, we deliberately didn't want to live on a housing estate because of loads of young children which then invariably grow up and have mopeds and sit on walls

. But the demographic of a road can change!

A new housing estate built in the 1970s would have gone from “screaming kids” to teenagers to middle-aged people to elderly people and now back again to the screaming kids as the cycle starts all over again.

Buying a house in a road of quiet retired people is only going to give you peace and quiet for so many years…..

We have been here for 24 years and the amount of DC went down over that time, though we do live in a bad school catchment so that probably helps. There is no way I would live on a housing estate as there are always houses up for sale and a new lot move in with more kids

What has coronavirus got to do with this.

I presume they’ve stopped now it’s started raining in some places, oh and the fact this was posted in April 2020.

But if you’ve still got any gin miniatures left OP I’m in!

Totally agree about choosing where to live. When we first moved here everyone around were elderly and everyone who replaced them when they passed away were young families. We actually love the kids but one simple sentence and everyone could enjoy the space. We kindly mentioned it and were met with defensiveness and aggression when we were friendly before. It just goes to show. We are moving asap and looking at more countryside areas and not where we would essentially have 8 neighbours. Mind you it only takes one as one of these properties have 7 kids.

It’s the absolute worst when people sit on walls. What will they sit on next, the pavement?! Shocking.