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[quote=Anonymous]You need to work in your parenting, OP.  This is totally unfair to your neighbor.  As stressful as the screaming is to you, it is 1000 yikes more stressful to your neighbor because:

1) She didn’t choose it
2) She can’t in any way fix it
3) She can’t control it or predict when it will happen

You can at least usually see a tantrum coming and try to mitigate it.  And it’s your parenting that influences your chikd’s Behavior.  But your neighbor is the victim of it.

Noise pollution is incredibly deleterious to a person’s health; that’s why there are laws about noise.  I lived in a townhome for a three years and the last, we had neighbors who were terrible parents.  The kids were out of control and the parents would scream all the time.  The kids banged, kicked, slammers, and were all of the time defiant and oppositional.

In one year, my blood pressure went up by 30 points.  I spent hours just raging in my head about them because I couldn’t have one hour of peace and quiet in my own home.  They were the most inconsiderate, nasty people I have ever met. I am a teacher and now a mom and I love kids.  I’d have been a neighbor who would have happily babysat for free occasionally.  But these parents were SO horrible, so utterly inconsiderate of the people with whom they shared walls, that my initial kindness evaporated within months.  Loud noises out of nowhere ruined dinners, naps, reading, watching TV...any attempt at relaxation.  Even earplugs didn’t address the problem because they bang and crash and jump in beds and vibrate the whole house, regularly.  Just thinking about them raises my blood pressure.

If you can’t improbe your parenting, you need a different housing situation.  If you haven’t read AHA parenting or taken a PEP class, you could improve quickly, so there’s a chance things will get better.  But for the sake of your neighbor, I hope you realize you are not entitled to reuniting a person’s quiet enjoyment of their home.
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