Screaming Children...

[WiddlinDiddlin]

AIBU to ask that parents stop their children from incessant fucking screaming?

I do not mean:
Colicky screamy babies
Toddler meltdowns
Frightened of a wasp kid
Laughter
Normal chatter or the odd shout

I mean games where the sole purpose and objective is to scream as loud and as long as possible and ideally, have all their little friends do the same.

I am not bitching about a one off, or one SN kid, I am talking about my entire estate appears to be full of small children whose best game this summer is 'scream like you are being murdered'.

I don't even think this is me being a grumpy old bitch - others in the area have noticed and commented on it as well, as have visitors to my house.

I am wondering if theres some sort of current craze or game among the under 10s - but can they shut the fuck up now please? Some of us have to work from home and have no way of blocking out the godawful noise.

It also means I am the least likely person to go and see if anyones really being murdered or kidnapped when I hear a kid scream now!

I agree. It's ridiculous. I have to shut all my windows from 6pm (we have wind down time & dinner) because the screamers come out to play

YANBU. There were kids screaming outside my house the other day. I did check as to whether there was anything going on but they were just stood there screaming at each other whilst the parents chatted away.

I totally agree, OP. It’s all about the little darlings being able to have fun and ‘express themselves’. 😒 Of course you’ll be told you’re a grumpy so and so, they’re only playing, wear earplugs, tune it out, bla fucking bla. Apparently it takes a village, but only if the villagers are letting the children behave however they like. 🙄

Opened this thread worrying it was about me. My almost two year old has had three days (and nights!) of intermittent screaming tantrums. Nobody wants it to stop more than I do.

My 2 year old dgd does it, and takes great delight in it. I'm hoping she'll grow out of it.

I hate it when kids do it. Mine do it too but luckily we live in a fairly remote place. But working from home is not the primary purpose of residential areas, so I wouldn’t rely on that argument. And it is the summer holidays, and summer is short enough.

EyUp

I totally get the difference between kids screaming in fun, and kids or babies screaming because reasons - I know thats not fun for ANYONE and if its annoying or frustrating me I can remind myself it must be a billion times worse for both the child and their parents!

I also get that working from home isn't everyones thing and I don't expect the world to remain silent just so I can concentrate (I mentioned it because it explains WHY i am here all the time to hear this racket) - but it'd be nice to hear the parents of these children making an attempt at teaching them that screaming ISN'T an appropriate game.

YANBU. I was getting out of my car the other day and I really thought some child on the Green was being murdered from the screeching and screaming she was doing.

Google - Baby shark song
And blast it out your windows.
Before too long you will be begging for their original game of choice back.

Oh I agree! My newish neighbours, who have 2 civilised little boys I rarely hear, have friends with 2 little girls who scream constantly for hours when they come round. I just thank my lucky stars they don't actually live there although it fucking feels like it sometimes.

I used to be a TA and it was always girls who did this. Run across the yard screaming as loud as they could. I used to tell them not to as it wasn't very nice for our eardrums. I got told by the other TA's they were just having fun
I realised I wasn't cut out for working with children

I work in a school and when children do this I immediately tell them to stop, it's anti social and nobody should be expected to tolerate it.

Yanbu. There's always at least one at softplay. Don't scream like you're being clawed by a rabid raccoon unless you actually are fgs.

My neighbours are worse than their toddlers. They play ball games on their lawn and then shout and screech like it was the Cup Final if one of the DC manages to score a goal or catch the ball. Way worse than the actual children and definitely not teaching them to consider the neighbours.

DD1 can be a squealer at times - it is not encouraged and it's definitely not allowed outside. You squeal = you come inside.

Yadnbu we live opposite a recreation ground. One or two isolated shrieks every so often would be fine. But it's constant and for hours at a time, usually post 5pm.
Its fucking anti social and I fantastise about sniping them.
What's worse, it winds up all the dogs being walked, (this might be the point actually!), so we their crazy barking too.

YANBU. I live next door to 3 and 5 year old girls whose parents permit them to scream at the top of their lungs in the back garden until amongst 10pm each night over the summer.

Fine, let them play, laugh, run. But stop the bloody screaming and get them inside at a reasonable hour so the rest of us can actually enjoy our own gardens

• or even better go to sleep with our windows open without being woken by them!

I say this as a 9 months pregnant mum to a two year old, so perhaps I am a bit grumpy!

Nightmare. I have a 4 and a 1 yo and can't bear it when they get shrieky. Listening to loads of Other Peoples Children shrieking would tip me over the edge. I think it's a summer thing. I don't remember spending all day telling them to quiet the fuck down in the winter.

I know how you feel. It always seems to be the young girls on my street and always outside my house! I have young children myself and when they get giddy and start screaming I ask them to calm down. Hopefully come winter and the early dark nights things won't go on until late.

YANBU

It seems to be a girl thing. They have four opposite us and the screeching seems competitive😧 They are on holiday at the mo and it is bliss. Dreading them coming back.

I took my 5yo DS to soft play last week and nearly lost the plot.

It wasn’t a game - it was a bunch of boys around 6/7 just running and screaming. It put me in a really terrible mood.

OP - YADNBU

BTW, I don’t allow my child to do this. He’s 5 and has autism but that’s no excuse to give everyone migraines, especially when he’s perfectly able to play without doing it and does so 98% of the time.

I wonder if its just bad luck that this summer the stars have collided and conspired to provide this street with..

Neighbour 1 - meltdown toddler (every afternoon from 4pm, screams of utter rage, goes on until around 7ish but can go til around 9, in the garden)
Also Neighbour 1 - has a dryer in their garage that is knackered and so we have three or four hours, up til past 10pm, of 'screeeeEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeech screeeeEEEEEEEeeech' seemingly amplified by the empty garage, as the drum is obviously catching as it spins.

Me - Obviously am saint and make no noise (joke. I make normal amounts of noise. Dogs sometimes bark, are brought in.)

Neighbour 2 - holds all phonecalls and every conversation with family or visitors in her smoking shelter out back. Have visiting baby who is a screamy one, have visiting older baby who is routinely left in a high chair to scream in anger and frustration. Is the type to encourage repetitive shreiking and screaming and wind up babies. Is also the type to not quite understand how telephones work therefore SHOUTS all conversation.

Neighbour 3 - owner of small girl of competitive screaming who has screamy friends - they also have a screamy baby and a shouty dog.

Rest of the street (so not my actual terrace), we have more screamy girls, slightly older boys who like to run about shouting the swear words they aren't allowed to shout in their own gardens and theres either a child or some small MONSTER that I can hear shredding trees and smashing and bashing fences.

I haven't actually seen this one, may be an angry badger/bear hybrid rather than human.

Maybe I should just be a noisy fucker too? If you can't beat em, and all that!

Yabu. It’s only ever on here that I’ve heard of kids doing this. The children who play out on my street let out the odd shriek when playing but no child is going to indulge in the summer long ‘who can scream the loudest’ competition that all children apparently do outside mners houses without getting a very sore throat and soon losing their voice.

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