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[quote=Anonymous]OP, for the time being, you need to live next door to this person. You do not want this to escalate. Since your neighbor is aggrieved, you need to bend over backwards to make it appear, at least, that you are trying your very best to accommodate her.

You have chosen to live in a town house, and you have to accept that your neighbors might be upset by normal household noise. Children are noisy, but if the normal noise your children makes bothers your neighbor, you need to do everything you can to lessen the noise, including having playdates at friends who have houses with big yards and no shared walls, going to parks to run around, making your kids use indoor voices, as well as their friends. I would not invite the screaming child over to your house again. That sounds intolerable, and if I were your neighbor, I would complain about it. If you lived in a SFH and you had the screamer over, then fine, but you don't and you have to adapt your life to that reality.

I would not have been as confrontational as you were. I know you've tried to be accommodating, but unreasonable people can make your life hell, so just be very solicitous to her face and make jokes about her behind her back.

Of course you can't be silent, but you can make an effort to keep the noise down, even if it feels excessive to you. Do you really want her to call the police/landlord/authorities? If she has no kids, she has lots of time to swear out complaints against you -- why put up with that? Life is too short. Keep your kids as quiet as you can. [/quote]

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