We live in a townhouse apartment. Our apartment is the one on the very end of our building. All the kids around here always play outside right at the end of our building. Ok, I understand that.
Last night, they started playing outside, chasing each other and screaming at around 7 pm. At 10:30 last night, it was still going. Just constant screaming. Not regular playing noises. Screaming. I turned on the porch light, opened the door, and glared at them. They kept going. At 10:45, they were still screaming. The were in front of our building, beside it, and behind my apartment, too. My kids go to bed around 9 every night. Finally, I opened my door, and yelled, "Would you kids PLEASE stop screaming? I can hear it very clearly from inside my apartment. Please just stop." Then I slammed the door. I was pissed. There were no adults out there watching them, and these kids were anywhere from 5-14 years old, probably.
I am so frustrated with these kids. Yesterday, I looked out on my back patio, and there were kids on my patio picking up my stuff. I opened the door and told them not to get on there because it's part of our home, and that's our stuff.
When they play baseball outside, when they hit the ball it bounces off the outside of our wall on the end of the building. One time the ball hit the outside wall so hard it actually knocked a mirror off my bathroom wall on the inside.
Almost every time I get in the car to leave, or drive back into the parking lot, the kids are always in the middle of the road. There are never any adults. A few times the kids actually purposely pull their bikes in front of my car, like it's a game. I tell them not to ever do that again. But they always do.
I guess I'm just tired of feeling like I have to always fight just to have peace inside my own space, or like I have to babysit all these kids. And I love kids, I really do. 
