Noisy children.

What I hate is parents continually telling their children off, saying the same thing over and over again and no one takes any notice. It's the same with shouting at barking dogs.

Try playing loud classical/operatic music for a while to drown out the cockerel noises, I think that may send the children inside for a while. It's been used before to deter teenagers from hanging about outside shops!!!

I have noisy children who live at the side of me, plus a rather large husky. Dad is a single parent and doing an ok job but the screaming and yelling is at times too much. Plus a destructive husky that was wrecking the dividing fence. Had to get really stroppy about the dog before he did anything but think I'll have to wait until school begins again before there is any peace from the children. It's going to be a noisy summer!

I have noisy children who live at the side of me, plus a rather large husky. Dad is a single parent and doing an ok job but the screaming and yelling is at times too much. Plus a destructive husky that was wrecking the dividing fence. Had to get really stroppy about the dog before he did anything but think I'll have to wait until school begins again before there is any peace from the children. It's going to be a noisy summer!

As a night shift worker I used to pray for rainy days when I was on nights. There was a lovely family in the house backing on to our house and they had three girls. All of them screeched, the pitch was so high it really went through you and would wake me with a jolt. It would sometimes continue for hours. I used to sleep in the spare room at the back until they moved in then I found that the traffic noise at the front was more constant and with ear plugs I could sleep through it. She was a great Mum and I didn't have the heart to tell them to pipe down but when they moved a family of 5 kids moved in and they played happily in the garden with loud noise but it never woke me up as they didn't screech.

About a year ago I was out with my daughter and the grandchildren and while we were walking through a park I commented that children seemed to scream all the time, I was told it was the way they expressed themselves like laughing. Give me a good belly laughing child over a screaming one anytime please.

Schools do not help as children are told to shout out the answer to every question and encouraged to shout instead of sing in concerts, assemblies etc. I think teachers must carry earplugs with them or they would be driven mad!

DGS is noisy, DD saw an older neighbour one day and apologised for the noise, he said it was one thing keeping them going. Listening to him being a normal happy little boy.
I have also spoken to the tenants upstairs as they were working and studying, and they wished they could be out playing football with him and splashing in the pool.
We try to keep it down but he has a very loud laugh.

I have a similar problem with neighbours children. The house is a private let, and there have been a number of families in the 8 years we have lived there, but the ones who are there now, are horrendous. Its not the noise they make outside its the noise inside, running up and down stairs, shouting, screaming all hours of the day and night, after 12 Friday night and 6 am on Saturday. One of them screams on the floor kinking the floor until you think he is coming through the floor, the months answer, that sheh puts on FB is to go in her bedroom with her bottle of Vodka and to let them do what they like - this is a direct quote lol Its been worse during the lockdown and no school, and we try to be patient, but some days its too much, and my DH finds it very hard.

I also have 4 grandchildren and while they can be noisy their parents will tell them if the volume gets above a certain level. However we also have 2 little girls age 6 and 4 next door and I have never known screaming like it. A trampoline has been erected right outside our kitchen window and the noise is almost unbearable at times. Now I always thought I had a high tolerance threshold for kids noise having had my own 2 and being heavily involved in watching my grandkids and love the kids playing but this is like something else. Their parents are lovely as are the girls and we are just grinning and bearing it but not easy as OH is working from home and the noise does make it hard for him if he’s on calls etc. We are selling up and moving hopefully after the summer and so looking forward to being able to sit in the garden and relax.

I think the children of this generation are noisy because they are subjugated to the american import of 'children tv' the american tv programmes aimed at children are very loud, children run round screaming a lot on them. I know it affected my own children

I think children in general are much noisier than they used to be but I do remember my own childhood being very strict I wasn't allowed to interrupt if a grown up was speaking wasnt allowed to scream and only speak when youre spoken to probably accounts for my introverted nature who knows ?

It is normal child behaviour and I'm glad the father is taking the time to play with children. I'm sorry you dont like the noise.

Earplugs are your friend, I don`t mind the noise of the kids its the grown-up in their gardens till all hours .

It could be as well as their being naturally noisy, that the children need to work off a lot of energy?

I think children have always been loud and noisy but they used to be told not to scream! I remember my dad telling me not to scream!

Reading this thread, I’m so pleased I live down a quiet road, neighbours on either side, one is an elderly gent who walks with a frame and doesn’t leave the house much, other side a single lady, 60’ish, only moved in earlier this year, she has ripped the house and garden apart, there seems no job she doesn’t tackle, so we often hear digging, drilling, shovelling, but she has no children or dogs, and doesn’t play loud music.

Much to be thankful for.

I love hearing children playing especially if parents are playing with them and that`s rare these days.
They are usually stuck infront of an i-pd/tv/mobile or laptop.
I have 4 grandchildren and when they play outside it`s the norm to get a little excited especially these days when they can`t do what was the norm.

I think everyone is noisier these days. Not just children.

Talk talk talk...

I like to talk - but try and keep the volume down. Not everyone needs to hear my conversation.

The family at the back of us has two small children. They are out in the garden every fine morning at 7 am. 7! But what else can they do? It must have been hard for them during the lockdown with no nursery etc I'm just grateful it's not shouting and swearing, as we used to have from another family nearby. But it's community living ...

My own children were always playing outside, the only noise was laughter, they were not allowed to scream and shout, they learnt to be mindful of others, it's down to having good manners. Think to be honest it's down to the parents to teach respect for others!
My sister has screaming kids over the back of her garden and the noise is awful, the parents obviously don't hear it, rather like owners don't hear their own barking dogs!!
Hopefully when they are allowed more freedom the noise might deminish!

If you look at some of the incredibly noisy, flashing and fast cartoon shown on children’s channels it helps explain why modern children are so noisy - the level of over-stimulation is incredible.

We have children next door but one and they are loud, especially when the paddling pool is out, but I have learned to tune them out and am glad when the noise reaches panic level that I don’t have to deal with whatever has caused it.

Children have been getting noisier for quite a while. When I was teaching we blamed the constatnt noise they are subjected to from a young age-music playing, TV blaring etc. I would think that has got worse. With a lot of parents wearing headphones now the child has to get their attention somehow. The parents of course have their headphones they don't hear them.

No, don’t have this on our road due to the fact no young children here, so lucky I suppose, I love to hear children’s laughter and playing , but wouldn’t want to hear screaming day in day out no, but then I think I wonder how much noise I made when I was younger out playing with friends

If anyone has seen a group of children that have just been "released" from a school, pre school etc, where thay have had to sit still and be quiet,the first thing many do is run around , usually shouting at the top of their voices.
They are just kids, for heavens sake! Maybe sticking your head over the fence and commenting "Oh, I thought we had a zoo/farm/someone was being murdered by the noise coming from here might work!

I’ve noticed that as I’ve got older some frequencies of noise really begin to irritate me more than my younger days shall we say. I’ve suddenly become aware of how much I dislike people eating crisps around me for example. My Dad seemed to be the same when I had my children. I was always trying to shush them in his company when it was just usual children’s noise. So could it be that Mother Nature is somehow telling us it’s time for a quieter life away from the hustle and bustle of family life? Like some sort of aging mechanism and nothing to do with the children themselves? Obviously there’s some exceptions as some children as some adults talk really loudly but overall I hate to conclude that we’re just getting old!