Did our parents shout at us more?

[chanel925]

I honestly hardly ever shout at my children they are adults and teens now and I never have. Only to alert danger. But I can remember being shouted at so much and my mum and dad shouting at each other. Some of my friends feel the same way- is it a coincidence or is it a thing?

My parents didn’t really shout at us, maybe my mum occasionally lost her rag and shouted as a last resort but looking back it was usually for understandable reasons!
I think they were good parents to be fair, none of us were particularly bad kids or teens and we have a good relationship with our parents now.
There was definitely a line we knew not to cross.
Born 1981 for context

My DF and DM never raised their voices. The first time I heard a woman shout was when I got married. :(

Yes. We were regularly shouted at (and hit) in the 60s/70s.

My parents shouted and sulked a lot. 1970s/80s.
Nc with my surviving parent (I can't abide sulking/manipulation)

Generally, no, not once older, maybe because it was more standard for us to behave? When visiting family abroad, they tend not to shout as much as parents here, as in you seldom see children rushing about/being noisy/damaging things in shops and then have parent effing at them, like you see on every shopping trip here. Places are generally just quieter, like they were in the past here.
But in the past, few parents would say it was wrong to shout, and you certainly didn't get busybodies interfering with parents like today-when my auntie told her son to stop banging on the window, some stranger said she was being mean!

Not in my experience. My parents were often angry but didn't shout and were usually angry only when we pushed boundaries and took the piss. If they threatened a punishment they followed through with it, so we only had to defy once to understand they meant business. My dh shouts all the time. Mostly stupid empty threats that we all ignore, it achieves absolutely nothing only makes him look like an idiot.