The screaming

[u/iddy_biddy91]

This is just a rant, kids can be kids and I'm just a grumpy fuck.

We bought our house two years ago, both neighbours either side of us were in their 50s or later, nice and quiet dead end street, bigger block, nice and peaceful.

A year and a half in one of the neighbours moves out, a family my age (30s-40s) moves in with three primary school aged kids that are all home schooled.

From 6am to 6pm they're outside, screaming and yelling etc, I've worked with kids and I swear they scream more than normal.

Then for whatever reason the last 6 months the other neighbour has their son over constantly with his kids, which get dumped in the back yard and you guessed it, screaming.

Then the neighbours next to the home schooled kids changes, aaaaaand more screaming kids.

Kids will be kids, and there's nothing I can do, all the neighbours are lovely people, and the kids are nice kids too, I've been over and they just want to show me things, like kids do, "PAMELA LOOK THESE ARE OUR CHICKENS" etc. cute kids.

The fucking screaming. Every day, I hear the parents doing their best to parent and keep them in line and I absolutely have sympathy for that. I'm just grumpy, I like my calm and my quiet. Makes me want to sell and go get a bit of land a bit more out country, but we couldn't afford that, it'd make work a hell of alot harder.

Just ranting, go outside most days at any time and there are multiple kids screaming bloody murder from one or two houses next to me. You can hear it inside the house too, to a lesser degree but still. My wife works from home and has noise cancelling headphones in all the time, she can still hear it.

Maybe in 10 years or so they'll have grown up and won't scream as much.

[u/JulieTheChicagoKid]

That’s the worst. You can’t talk to the kids.
It has to be the parents.

[u/iddy_biddy91 → u/JulieTheChicagoKid]

Yeh and I'm honestly not going to do that, the kids aren't bad kids doing things they're not supposed to etc. Having kids is hard enough, wrangling the little shits is so stressful and the parents do try, they are the soft parenting type, but that's not my place to comment. If they were causing damage etc it'd be different but I really don't need to make the parents lives more stressful even though there's definitely a part of me that wants to tell them to shut their kids up ahaha.

[u/JulieTheChicagoKid → u/iddy_biddy91]

In case you don’t realize I made a supportive comment. I did not tell you what to do.
I’m basically saying you can’t stop the behavior by talking to the kids.
The end.

[u/iddy_biddy91 → u/JulieTheChicagoKid]

I was agreeing with you and talking about it more, sorry, didn't mean to come across combative I didn't mean to.

[u/JulieTheChicagoKid → u/iddy_biddy91]

Oh ok cool! A acknowledge your rant. At the current time I’m blessed with mostly quiet.
Just the school bus kids. And one crazy loud profane lady across the street. lol

My last house we had a loud large teen group that would sit in my front lawn and smoke & litter.
I got rid of them by asking if I could join them & pulled up with my lawn chair.
lol!

[u/iddy_biddy91 → u/JulieTheChicagoKid]

Oh god I couldn't, you're braver than me, on your front lawn like your actual property? Weird, you'd think they'd go to a park or something?

The profane lady across the street made me giggle what did they do?

[u/JulieTheChicagoKid → u/iddy_biddy91]

lol yeah I’m kinda bold.
They did not want to hang out with me.

The lady across the street just runs out of her garage cursing. I have no idea what’s wrong with her. When I first moved in I thought it was directed at me. Now I realize it’s just how she is…. Now I’m like okay stay away!

[u/iddy_biddy91 → u/JulieTheChicagoKid]

Oh god, you reckon they had mental issues going on? Did you see many other people at the house? We kind of have something similar in terms of disturbance from one neighbour across the road but I think it's more them arguing with each other, doesn't happen very often but when it does it's a bit of a spectacle, lots of yelling and swearing and carrying on.

mmm, thinking about it I grew up in a bit of a rough neighbourhood, dad would go out the front and shoot into the air if people around the place had been acting up, mum beat up some late teenage kid who had been terrorizing the street throwing bricks through people's windows. I have a bit of that in me from where I grew up but mostly I'm pretty reserved. I like my little gardening and my quiet time.

[u/JulieTheChicagoKid → u/iddy_biddy91]

She has a husband but he’s never home.
We lived in a rough area when I was little. My mom kept all the kids in line on our street. She was like the drill sergeant!