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

Oops. I forgot to reply to the first one who put the word "insane" in this thread. Sorry about that mistake. Hopefully, I'll learn from it.

I couldn't have typed that better myself.

Totally agree with you. My neighbours have a girl of about 3 or 4 and she just screams a the top of her voice all the time and it is seriously getting on my nerves now! She screams for random reasons and now I have just come to the conclusion that she is just a brat and when she can't get her own way she just has a massive temper tantrum despite being told off several times and asked not to do things she does them any way!!!! I am so tempted to call the police cos I am sick and tired of coming home from work and hearing the little brat screaming for no apparent reason. They have a stair gate and when she gets put behind that she goes nuts! Something needs to be done about her before someone does report them

There are anti loitering devices that omit a high frequency sound that only young people can hear.  They find the noise so uncomfortable that they exit the area very quickly.  These devices are costly & there is a download of the high pitched frequency available for your laptop that you can plug into a stereo & blast out the window.  In America these devices prevent crime by stopping young people hanging around.  They also use high frequency devices on power poles to stop dogs barking & making noise pollution. Just Saying....  

We're new to the neighborhood and homes are on half acre lots which should be a nice buffer between neighbors. Not so, when the neighbor has cats which roam freely and upset my dog in our yard. That was the first clue. Then the neighbor put up camping tents right next to our fence. One evening they were entertaining and their friends kids and their kids were camping out. My husband and I were only a few feet away on our deck trying to decompress with a glass of wine in front of the fire. Every few minutes one of the kids would get up with flashlight in hand waving them all over the place including in our eyes. We told them to stop and they did until the parents came out to spend time around their fire pit (also only a short distance from where we were). Once the parents came out the kids got loud and the flashlights appeared again and no adult said a word. We ended up spending money on a privacy fence for around the deck which we hope will help. We've also noticed that they have a screamer. I think he's about 3 and his brother is 5. The 3 year old screams constantly. At first I thought maybe his brother is doing something to provoke him. I think there is a little of that but mainly he just screams. I am self employed with a home based business. When I'm not working I like to garden but I can't enjoy that because of the constant screaming. The parents are both around and say nothing. I was just about at wits end and decided to pray about it. (Wish I had done this sooner) I prayed that the screaming would be just as irritating to the parents as it is to me so they'd correct the kid. Today was the first time that the child only screamed one time and stopped. I had a great day in the garden.

Nope, we're not retarded. We're beginning to think our neighbors' children might be ADHD, autistic, Aspbergers or something similar. The problem is the parents spend zero time with their children and don't supervise their activities. They have 3 and 5 year old boys who scream incessantly, play in the road with their toys despite the fact they have a beautiful, flat back yard they could safely play in. Their mother stays at home with them but never intervenes when they fight and scream. She is never outside with them. And both parents are guilty of playing with their little ones late into to the night, so they obviously don't have a regular bed time for children their age. (My curfew at age 18 was earlier than these two kids!) We believe they are attempting free range parenting, but that only works if there are rules that the kids understand and can abide by.

Honestly I am soo tired of hearing my neighbors kids scream. When my kids were little and they started screaming I brought them inside not the opposite. People these days have no consideration and think everyone else should love to hear their kids scream. News flash they don't.

You are so correct. I have two young children. When they start to scream I tell them to be quiet or bring them inside. Why do I want to hear your kids scream all day! ? It's rude and people these days are rude .

My neighbours children are absolutely pain in the ass. They stick their kids inside the fence on ground floor and leave them to shout randomly Mommy and hello to anyone who passes. Durring a summer time I leave my windows shout as I can stand constant crying and noise from these little brats.
I dont understand people who live in little flats and multiply like rabbits. Poor excuse that these are kids doesn't satisfy me My parents didnt stick me outside window to do nursery for them.

Please. I have children and my child does not scream outside - even in our own yard - because he knows that is not appropriate behavior. There is a difference between a two-year old and an 8 ear old.
Oblivious, selfish parents raise oblivious, selfish children. As my own mother notes, this kind of behavior used to be considered a sign that your children were out-of-control. Now it is just normal to take up as much fill-in-the blank as you want, including your neighbor's right to peace and quiet. We live in an ever-crowded world and it is in our collective best interest to understand that we live in community.

I have two children who are now 20 and 14, and we would play outside and have a great time. Once in a while, sure, they could get loud as kids do... but after a few minutes I would remind them we have neighbors and to lower their voice, and they would do so with no problem.

We have new neighbors who have 2 boys (I'm guessing around 9 or 10 yo each) and a girl (maybe about 7), and these kids, from the second they hot the outside are constantly yelling, shouting... one boy even shouts "whoo hoo!!!!" no less than about 1,000,001 times per day..., constantly.

One of the boys seems to be only quiet one, the other "Mr. Whoo Hoo!" is non-stop shouting, as is the girl. They both have voices that rip right through your head.
I have not yet heard their parent's let them know to lower their voices. And it is literally, constant, every second they are outdoors.
It has become extremely annoying.., more so irritating. But to approach the parents to talk to them about it, I would be just a jerk in their minds.

They also had a dog (I think it passed away recently) they never leashed and roamed where it liked, especially into my yard to poop, etc... regardless of my speaking with the father on three occasions (nicely) about it, and informing him of the leash law in town.

I have also found their children playing in my property on several occasions as well. They are just the sort of parents who #1 have zero intentions of ever teaching their children about having some respect.consideration for neighbors, because they seem to think that everyone in the neighborhood loves their kids and (their dog when it was loose) as much as they do.

It really is quite inconsiderate to allow your kids to constantly yell, scream, and shout like this on a constant basis. Most people understand kids get rowdy at times but..., non-stop?! That is when the parents are the problem, and not the kids.

I forgot to add, it seems as though these kids are in constant competition to be heard over one another. And the little girl is also a whiner, and the one boy "Mr. Whoo hoo" seems to me, to be quite the little prickly pear and sneak who like to do things to her to make her cry and or whine then he acts like he doesn't know why she's crying. I have witnessed this several times.

I just wish they would suddenly move away, as we cannot even enjoy a nice day with the windows open or even just to sit outside... and we live in a quite area... houses each have no less than 1acre each and often some woods between etc., I have named the family... the Loudlys. (Maybe I will write a book called "The Loudlys" a series the first will be The Loudlys Disturb the Neighbors. ha

To anyone complaining about noisy kids, I sympathize with your POV. I have three young ones and I can only imagine what it must sound like to the uninitiated, to the unenlightened, to the ignorant, or to the uber-idealists.

I grew up a sensitive child in a fairly quiet house with one older sibling. As an adult, I married someone with high energy who had lots of cousins around from a young age. Wouldn't it be my luck that all three of my kids have that same high energy in addition to passionate emotions and headache-inducing volume.

My younger two are of the strong-willed variety, and when they are not playing well together with their wild imaginations, they are trying to sabotage each other screaming bloody murder. I would give anything to reign it all in, have sought help from professionals, read plenty of books, have tried everything I can think of. My wife has always felt the craziness was normal. I don't think I could possibly disagree with her more when my youngest uses his shrilling scream 20 times a day for things as simple as spilling water on his shorts.

At the end of the day though, I've had to accept that we were not meant to have a quiet household. I've discovered that the noise and nonstop action are signs of healthy interactions and learning for my kids, that if they were constantly quiet, that would be a larger cause for concern (especially since I learned how the quietness in my house growing up was actually a sign of neglect.)

I can't expect people who don't have kids to understand any of this. For all their talk, they have not walked the walk - it's just something that has to be experienced.

Parenting is easy...until it's not.

If you are doing it right, and you care enough to engage on the levels that kids today need, it forces you to self reflect and reevaluate what kind of person you are...in order to shape the person they will become.

It's a process...not pretty, not efficient, even f'n ugly at times. It involves a ton of trial and error. And I guarantee you'd be surprised what kind of people end up doing well vs. rolling over when it comes to parenting.

Just moved from a house where the neighbors kid was brainless and noisy,I used to return the noise with interest in the form of a subwoofer. Every day for 2 years so they got the message. Some people don't know how to raise children,and some prefer the money they get using the autistic excuse

You could be writing for me. The intolerable and intrusive noise for hours and hours each day right outside my house is driving me crazy. I can't have my windows open on a summer evening and enjoy the house I PAID FOR because of these kids drowning out the TV - and that is not an exaggeration. The parents are not inclined to do anything about the nuisance are they? After all, their vile offspring aren't playing in their own gardens and peeing off their own parents. In fact - they are probably sent out so they don't cause the same nuisance that blights many of our lives in their own houses. I'm trying to sell my house - I've had a gut full of it. It's inconsiderate, selfish, anti-social. What on earth is this country going to be like when these delightful little mites become adults? BTW - the age range is about 6 or 7 through to early teens. 10 or 12 congregate every evening, all evening. And this is OK? Well if I stood outside their houses screaming and shouting I'd be sectioned or arrested. It's effing outrageous.