To preface this I am not a parent myself, I understand it must be an incredibly difficult job and thing to do. Now, I have neighbors that are constantly screaming at their children and at each other. At 9 in the morning, they are screaming. As soon as they come home from work at 5, they begin screaming at their children until they are screaming crying. If the children wake up at night and are crying, they scream at them. They slam doors, stomp, and there are a lot of banging noises. They also curse at them. These kids can’t be older than maybe 3 and 7 at the most. The oldest screams and begs them at night to tuck in the younger one, sing her a lullaby, or comfort her rather than screaming and they tell her to shut up. It’s very sad. We have relatively thin walls but I have never heard the other neighbors speaking.
It would be one thing to yell occasionally. Everyone gets frustrated and no one is perfect. I used to teach so I understand kids can be told to do something so many times and still won’t do it. However the problem is the constant screaming at the children. Any time they cry, the parents scream. Especially the dad.
We finally called the police a week ago to report a domestic disturbance/loud noise since it was past quiet hours in our city and the child was screaming .”daddy please no please no” in a concerning way. However, the noise has gotten worse since between the parents. Frankly, I’ve had to move my office to the other side of the apartment because they are so loud that when I’m on calls for work, others can hear it. I’m not sure what to do as I’m worried for the children. I guess I just want to hear that calling was the right thing to do/if I should call in the future, or if there is any way they could get resources? I would call our landlord just about noise but they’re old townhouses so even though we share a wall, their building is owned by someone else. They also have been saying they want to knock on doors to find who called and I’m frequently alone as my husband works until 11 pm, so I’m a bit afraid.
Thanks.