Crying today as my next door neighbour (we moved in about 5 months ago) knocked on my door at 8 am to say that we had made their lives a living hell and to ask me to control my children's noise. My ds (5 next week) has a very high pitched penetrative voice and has real difficulty with volume. I try so hard to keep the noise down and really didn't feel it was that bad but he said that he and his wife can't take it any more and that I need to do something about it. I said that as it was the summer I understood that we were home a little more but he reapeated that it had been since we moved in and that they are considering moving and his wife can't stand it. They have 2 children who I never hear! Now I feel so ashamed and crappy and I don't know what to do as my ds has such a loud voice but he doesn't know how to control it. And on the whole the sounds are just play sounds.
Any ideas. All I've done since is moan at the kids and cry! I have signs around the house for my ds like, walk on the stairs, try and use your indoor voice etc but he finds it so hard to remember and really it's just instinctive for him to speak loudly.