my neighbours kids never stop screaming!!! Driving me insane

I think the easiest way to deal with it would be to talk to the parents. I have 4 children ranging from 6 to newborn and if my neighbours had an issue, i sure hope they'd come talk to me first  before resorting to childish back and forth antics. I really enjoy my quiet time so I know the irritation that comes with having to listen to other peoples lives but sometimes moms don't even realize that people can hear whats going on in their households.

plus, some kids just have a bad attitude sometimes. My second youngest is 3 and has the worst melt downs i have ever seen in my life and all my kids were raised the same with the same people  but yet, hes the only one that does it. Hes got a solid bedtime and lots of mommy and daddy time so I do'nt think its really as black and white as some childless people would think. I was reading somewhere that parents should treat their kids like little cavemen because thats exactly how they think, they don't understand how to act like civilized people and when your expecting them to act like that, thats when you run into issues.

Exact! Thank you for this!

Children should not be allowed to behave like insane howler monkeys - its not healthy for them as well as being annoying to the neighbours.Imagine how unbalanced those children's minds are that they need to scream and stomp around for so long during their waking hours, every single day?

As a young child I was given creative things to do - I'd paint, read, write or play quietly with my dolls / animal toys. Of course there were times that I'd fight with my sister or brother and then there'd be screaming or shouting and probably thumping around - but this wasn't tolerated as "normal child behavior" by my parents and we were all smacked if we got into fights and sent to our rooms to cool off.

Admittedly I don't think smacking works, because its a short sharp pain and then you're fine and the punishment is over. I think longer lasting punishments like "no TV for 2 days" or "no computer consoles for a week" etc are much better punishments and hurt the child a lot more than a smack, but in any case it was never considered normal when I was young to shout and scream and certainly didn't happen every day.

Nowadays it seems to be the norm for children to screech at all hours - I think its due to the young parents barely out of school who didn't receive proper parenting from their own parents, who grew up in disfunctional households where screaming at each other is the norm. They hear their kids screaming and it doesn't register as abnormal because that's how they communicate with each other.

The people across the street from me all scream down the house at each other rather than talking. Even to ask each other if they've "seen the remote?" or "have you walked the dog?" its all done at the top of their voices and the children are constantly shrieking and crying. They have massive arguments everyday that involve screaming, shouting, crying and throwing things out the windows onto the street below (someone's radio/stero was a casualty a while ago... needless to say they left the pieces of it on the road until the road sweepers cleaned it up). One of the older girls (16) has had a baby of her own now... Everyone calls them the neighbours from hell. They live in a government house so they're basically unevictable (my side of the street is privately owned) so we're stuck with them until some of them move out and it will (hopefully) get quieter again. I cope by turning my TV / music up and trying to ignore the noise. With any luck they'll all kill each other in one of their family disputes and solve the problem for us that way.

Very well said. This it the crux of it. These are people who for various reasons didn't want to correct their little girls; now they wonder why their child is out of control.

married_chick...your kid sounds like a real as****e.

I think some people don't see thedifference, some kids are raised without manners because parents just don't care. Some children are MUCh harder to raise then other kids and have more temper tantrums. one of my daughters is quiet and listens, my other is a little devil, she screams and just doesn't listen. Doesn't matter what you do she screams and yells. So, when I'm at a mall- which I try to avoid at ALL costs because I know how people without kids react. Usually if you had kids, more then one, you'll know how hard it can be. But I try to be considerate, if she starts yelling I leave.  Unfortunately she doesn't tLk yet like she should, so she yells and gets frustrated. I guess I should applogize to my neighbours that my daughter is delayed and can't talk yet. 

I feel your pain. My neighbor's child is the same. I have 4 kids of my own and none have ever been even close to what this kid does. He just screeches and screams ever day, all day. Drives me nuts because my daughter is friends with him so he is around all the time. His parents never tell him to shut up so I blame them. Just another case of horrible parenting!

I don't care why they are screaming. Just stop them from doing so. A pillow over their face should suffice.

I wonder if we live near each other because my neighbors kids scream all the time. They are driving me crazy too!

Lazy parenting = badly behaved undiscplined kids. They have no idea about self control which is just going to make them nightmares as they grow.

I live next to three of them, they built that house on a double block previously and our peace went forever.  They are in competition as to how long they can high pitched squeal for. The parents are the laziest and entitled I have ever seen. Kids get turfed out all day every day, parents rarely interact. The kids are singing (when not screaming) modern songs complete with suggestive lyrics. Only one goes to school as yet. They built their kids play area jammed against our communal fence. Poisoned our climbers as they obviously didn't like them. Cut our tree branches off when we were away. Got a dog and let it bark for up to 6 hrs at a time right next to us. I actually dared to ask them to please (was very polite) keep the dog quiet as I was working and it was interfering with concentration. So what happens HE gets all aggro and storms over here, says the dog (yeah this is one smart guy) never barks, not even when they are not at home. EH? Mind you the id**t rides his dirt bike on our naturestrip with his 3yo son - the son wears earphones as protection. I am over them. Yet can't afford to move. I just hope that when we can afford to move, that we sell to a family with teenage boys. We are sooo quiet and we initially were giving to them - gave them heaps of things initially when they first moved in. Because I said one thing against the dog - after months of torture - he spread the word through to the other neighbours how I complain about every single thing. I have never said anything about the kids, I know how far that would get me. But this sense of entitlement, this lazy irresponsible parenting is rampant and I wish I just wish I could find respectful and quiet neighbours but as my husband says, we could just move to a similar situation. 

I feel your pain. The four kids next door (all too young for school as yet) are annoyingly loud. The youngest two cry a lot, but they're pretty much babies, so I can tolerate that, but the older two are complete brats who scream when they don't get what they want. One of them will have tantrums in which she screams rhythmically every minute or so for up to an hour. Know what the most annoying thing is? The noisy, ill mannered, undisciplined little sods don't even live here, but are brought to their grandmother's for several incredibly loud hours every single day. I don't want tension between my household and my neighbour, but really, take your damn brats home, this is not a crèche! Rant over, it's good to vent.

I agree, bad breeding...  People who should never have children because they are not intelligent enough to have children themself.  They are the ones who will disagree and in their mind are intelligent.  Go to the house, watch their behavior, look at their enviroment, they will probably be a slob in some sort of way, or vise versa, an ultimate clean freak, or just have too many kids.  My neighbors perfectly normal little girl screams for 5 years!  Another one up the street does the same.  Imagine these will grow up to be women and then...hate to be in that relationship.

 

I am so glad i found this thread just so i dont feel i am the only one making a complaint about screaming neighborhoods kids
I am now ill because of it..My students moved out- my best friend too because of it. These people next door have no manners - so of course the kids are feral and i do mean feral.

Having children does not give a license to disturb your neighbors. Breeding yes stop on.

Or lack of more like it.

I miss my students and i miss my best Friend . hey dont even call for a visit because the noise. I cant use my garden all all- it goes on 7 days a week non stop.

To all who are enduring this torture---my sympathy. 

House behind me has yard which abuts mine. 2 kids are out in it constantly...toddler boy and his older sister. Boy screams like a saw cutting metal and sister chases him around roaring like a lion...for hours at a time. The best part is that the girl wanders around singing at the top of her lungs---tunelessly and incredibly loud. I swear, if the police wanted a surefire technique for getting suspects to talk, all they need do is have this girl do her stuff for five minutes. 

I have no air conditioning so I look forward to a summer of 1. aural drill thru the brain, or 2. closing all my windows and slowly suffocating---while STILL hearing the endless LALALALALALALALALA----ROARRRRR---AAAHHHHHH!!!!!

Have informed police who have done nothing.

Neither does the mother, who is briefly visible when hauling groceries into house---she is invariably on the phone.

Yes, I do have children. Yes, my children played outside. But NO, they never produced noises like these.

And then there are the people whose Habitat for Humanity house is so close to my property line that I can stand in my back yard and touch their house. As they, like the screamers, speak a language I do not understand, I cannot tell if they are upset, happy, or ready to rumble. And they wash their large metal pots outside, usually around midnight. 

Sure they have rights. But SO DO I. 

this is all to true..all u think 3 kids is alot ...try living next to a nursing school where they got annoying ppl playin music with bass turned all the way up at 7 in the morning then at around 4 pm everyday right around the corner u got like 3 different baby moms and they all got like 5 kids..i think 1 might even has 10...i was kid once but i know for a fact i was never annoying like that...and its like u know these baby moms are just breeding to get another check from the goverment...