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AIBU?

to wish this child would stop effing screaming?

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NoisyBrain · 22/08/2013 21:29

There is a child somewhere nearby, who is incapable of playing outside without screaming like a banshee. I'm talking blood-curdling, top-of-voice screaming and it's extremely irritating.

Of course I expect to hear kids' laughter and some shouting during the summer holidays (and I'm noticing it more because I'm on maternity leave I suppose), but is high-pitched screaming during play necessary under ANY circumstances? I don't know how old the child in question is, but definitely sounds older than a toddler who might not know better. It sounds like proper horror film screaming too. The only reason I know the child is playing is because I can hear other children's voices at the same time as the screams.

My mum was really strict with me about things like this. If she'd heard me screaming I'd have been made to come inside and told off for annoying the neighbours. Aside from the annoyance factor, her argument was that if I was ever in real trouble and screaming out of fear or pain no-one would realise - like the boy who 'cried wolf'. I think she had a point, but being pregnant with my pfb I'm aware I know very little about the realities of policing such behaviour. So, aibu to think it shouldn't be encouraged?

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Mumsyblouse · 22/08/2013 21:41

You are right and I don't let mine scream for the same reason, it's very alerting when a child really screams that horror film scream and hopefully people will react if there's a real emergency. But what can you do, unless you can see the child and peer over the fence saying 'sorry, I thought there was really something wrong' in earshot of the parents.

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MrsLouisTheroux · 22/08/2013 21:42

I really dislike screaming, screeching or whining children.
YANBU

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LadyMaryQuiteContrary · 22/08/2013 21:43

You must live near me as said child was yelling at her mother at 08:20am this morning.

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spottygoat · 22/08/2013 21:43

YANBU

Although I often join in with a good screaming competition with my girls and their friends!!!!

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RandomMess · 22/08/2013 21:44

YANBU however the child may have special needs and therefore the parent not able to implement a reaasonable stop the screaming rule Sad

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LadyMaryQuiteContrary · 22/08/2013 21:45

Or maybe the child is a Diva who is incapable of being quiet, Random?

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vintageclock · 22/08/2013 21:46

YANBU. I live beside a green. The sound of children out there playing is lovely. But there's always a really annoying child who can't play without screeching their head off.

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kiwidreamer · 22/08/2013 21:47

I completely agree its annoying and disconcerting... DD is two and has started a god awful screaming habit, for attention or fun or when greatly aggrieved, it is mortifying but I would take her inside if she persisted.

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littlemisswise · 22/08/2013 21:49

YANBU. I bloody hate screaming and screeching.

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PelvicFloorClenchReminder · 22/08/2013 21:49

My son makes a dreadful noise out in the garden sometimes. He has various complex SEN and doesn't always understand that he might be upsetting other people. He finds life very stressful sometimes, and likes letting off steam in the garden.

Sorry, and all that.

Would you prefer it if I locked him inside?

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lougle · 22/08/2013 21:50

Oh dear, that could be my 4 year old. She's going through a very angry phase and when she's overwhelmed with injustice at my parenting she screams.

It's very high-pitched, very annoying.

Not much I can do - to stop the screeching I'd have to back down on enforcing whatever rule she disagrees with and there's no way I'm doing that.

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thisisyesterday · 22/08/2013 21:51

urgh i HATE this!

i have a couple of friends who have little girls who always seem to have to scream whatever game they play. it drives me insane!
it's just so unnecessary

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CrabbyBigBottom · 22/08/2013 21:54

YANBU at all - high pitched sounds physically hurt me. Next door neighbour's child and friends were doing this this morning and I just wanted to shout out of the window
stop fucking screaming! you can enjoy yourself without screaming like hysterical banshees!
Angry

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justanuthermanicmumsday · 22/08/2013 21:56

Children scream whine cry. Whining and kids go hand in hand. I've not met a kid who didn't whine at some point in their life.

I can understand your sentiments but my daughter is a banshee I don't live near you do I! Lol no amount of me talking to her helps. She apologies profusely promises she won't then as soon as her brother so much as touches her even by accident high pitched scream. It's like a Hitchcock movie moment lool. It's not funny it's annoying, angers me stresses me. To be fair her and my son are only a year apart and they've come to a phase where they seem to argue or fight every day, then five mins later they're best mates again. I have spoken to other mums and teachers they've told me its normal phase and will pass.

Some parents have told me to chill out.I can't reprimand them every five mins. so now I choose carefully when to reprimand and other times I leave them to resolve their disputes. If its gets too out of hand I get them indoors. I do try and respect the neighbours and in the summer if I know they are out for a barbecue which is really rare I get my kids indoors.If i can see theyre gardening and my boy is bothering them, hes so darn chatty and cross questions everything, that kid could give jeremy paxman a run for his money lol.Otherwise I'm afraid I will leave them out to enjoy the weather. They're kids I'm sure we shouted, screamed whined too.

If we go to a big park I let them talk loud shout kids need some outlet I don't like always hushing them up. I've yet to see a parent here bat an eyelid at their behaviour. Or maybe I'm just a bad parent with evil kids .

If you have solutions for the screaming or whining please do tell.

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WorraLiberty · 22/08/2013 21:57

I hate it too although I've never complained

I've just thanked fuck that they're not my kids Grin

But it physically hurts my brain

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lougle · 22/08/2013 22:01

Hurts mine too.

I was actually in a queue in a supermarket a couple of months ago and the chap serving us has ASD. DD3 normally saves her unreasonable behaviour for home, but on this occasion let rip in the store.

I was doing quite well until the chap serving us said 'That girl is really annoying me...' I looked at him and said 'She's annoying me too, but if you serve me I can get her out of your way...' and thought 'at least you don't have to take her home

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InTheRedCorner · 22/08/2013 22:01

It's horrible.

DD screams when angry and not getting what she wants and I hate it Sad it's an ongoing problem along with everything else she is going through.

The neighbours judge me because of her ways, I know this because they mainly ignore me throw dirty looks, slag me off these days.

I spend my days being a referee to DD and her siblings, we stay in a lot because of everything which in some ways makes it worse.

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Famzilla · 22/08/2013 22:25

Ugh I hate hate hate the Screechy screaming noise!

NDN's kid screams every day about everything from 8-6 without fail. We live in terraced houses with French doors going out to our gardens and I actually have to shut all windows & doors when it's DD's nap time as there is no way anyone could sleep through it.

No SN's, just an annoying kid with a stoner mum.

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NoisyBrain · 22/08/2013 22:26

My unborn ds is going to be a screamer just to pay me back for starting this thread isn't he? Blush

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emmelinelucas · 22/08/2013 22:35

The local primary school is very near our house. It is bliss in the holidays. Every year there is just ONE screamer, that can be heard above all the others.
I really do dread them going back every year.
Having said that, the neighbours at the back have something knocked down and built up every summer (when they - both teachers bugger off for 4 weeks)
So-there is always something to get on the nerves.
And I feel sorry for mothers of screamers.

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carabos · 22/08/2013 22:42

We live in a terrace house with a lane behind wide enough for two cars. Some neighbours park there, but essentially it's a safe traffic-free zone. As a result, all the kids in the street play there. They congregate round our back yard because NDN's DS1 is the ringleader popular.

The noise is horrific. I work from home and my office is on the first floor at the back. During the school hols, I can't take a phone call in there because of the screeching. I can't work with the windows open, and I find myself migrating around the house throughout the day in search of quiet.

I have never complained or asked them to keep the noise down - they're just kids, and they're off school. The thing that majorly pisses me off though is there is a huge school playing field at the end of our road and none of them ever plays there - even the ones whose homes are adjacent to it. No, they must come round to ours. Hmm

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MrsLouisTheroux · 23/08/2013 19:14

justanuther :Children scream whine cry. Whining and kids go hand in hand. I've not met a kid who didn't whine at some point in their life.
Not all children scream/ whine/ cry on a daily basis.
I've met plenty who don't make a habit of it.

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EndoplasmicReticulum · 23/08/2013 19:18

I hate screaming. If mine scream they only do it once and then they have to come in. I have told them they have to save it for emergencies.

I blame school, they seem to have screaming competitions in the playground, they didn't do it before they started.

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PeteCampbellsRecedingHairline · 23/08/2013 19:18

I think some of you are my neighbours.

I live on a green and my DS and his friends are so bloody loud when they play outside. Blush

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MummyPig24 · 23/08/2013 19:26

Yanbu. I hate screeching. Unfortunately dd is a screecher and ds is a shouter. I have to remind them frequently that no one wants to hear them shouting and screaming and if they continue they will come in. Our ndns have 3yr old twins who shout over the fence to my 2 and its annoying as it encourages ds shouting. They are great kids and we get on well but stop bloody shouting, all of you!!

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