Children on gardens

[Toolaidback4some]

Is it just me or do screaming children in gardens make you mad. Before you start i dont mean noise from children playing, shouting or being generally noisy. I actually enjoy listening to them play and have fun. But a scream..like aarrghhhh type piercing scream every 3 seconds is driving me mad. AIBU to expect the parents to say...stop screaming there are other people outside too...?

I would just love to go outside and scream into the wind. Shame I'm 42...

I did it the other day when my 10 year old was driving me insane. It was brilliant! Don't let age be a barrier (I'm older than you)

I am lucky that although most of my neighbours have young children none of them scream. I can hear them playing and laughing and I love that.

However it seems just about every time I am in a supermarket or a coffee shop/café there is at least 1 child screaming. The other day I was having a coffee in Starbucks when a young child started screaming. The screaming carried on non-stop for over 10 minutes. By this time I was starting to get a headache so decided to leave. As I got up I looked behind me to see that the mother of the child was drinking one of the cold drinks (so served in a plastic cup). She could have got up at any stage and gone outside with the screamer and carried on drinking.

My neighbour's children have been in the paddling pool for the past half hour . They're screamers - that's my one lie-in of the week gone.

There's a child a few gardens away from us who, when it is out in the garden, screams constantly - and it is constant, like a chatty conversation turned up to full volume. Thank god they are a way away from us - far enough away that it isn't irritating and I can marvel at the power of the child's lungs.

But who lets their child do that???

I really don't understand parents who don't ask children to stop. If my kids are out and screaming I'd A) run to see who was bleeding profusely and B)get really pissed that it was a false alarm. Screaming is not acceptable. I'm amazed how many of my friends can listen to it

I'm glad all the parents who have posted agree that unnecessary screaming outside (or anywhere) is not good. I think a minority of parents just don't give a crap about other people. Yes, screaming is a good release, and children like being able to make a loud noise with their voice, but they should also be taught to have consideration for others.

DD is 8 (years - not months) and has developed a scream this summer. It's a hideous noise. She now gets one warning each time we're in the garden and any screams after that is a 50p and five minutes indoors. It's the fine which is finally making her think and stop (well, reduce) doing it. It seems to have become a thing amongst the children at her school this summer (or at least the group she mainly plays with) but the dinner ladies are clamping down on it too which should help.

I have close neighbours like this - the children don't play, they scream and shout. But it's obvious where they get it from as both parents are shouty too (not in an angry way, just everything at full volume). So if any Mumsnetters are reading this who have a daughter called Phoebe (yes I do hear that shouted a lot) and at least one son (and no, last summer, I didn't need to know about which pyjamas he was wearing but thank you for sharing it with all of us), you're far too loud and we'd all appreciate you shutting up!