No trespassing signs: find out what is required by your locality and post them as specified. Then follow through. Reminds me of the rainy day when I found about a dozen high-schoolers smoking and drinking under our carport . . . I let the school and the police know that wasn't going to become a habit.

My biggest problem with screaming kids is that when they need those screams to alert someone to an emergency situation, no one is going to come. Just like car alarms going off all the time, after a while you just tune them out. When my daughter was growing up we would not have tolerated such noise, and if we did hear screaming we would go outside to make sure no one was being abducted or murdered. Not so much these days . . .

I actually called the local police when one neighbor handed out whistles, the kind traffic cops use, for their kids to pay with. Those things are used by lost hikers, kayakers, and others for emergencies . . . . and I object to "playful children" keeping all the neighborhood on high alert with their noise-makers. And would you believe it took more than one call before we no longer heard whistles being blasted as late at 10:30pm or as early as first sun?