To hate kids screeching

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You know that high pitched screaming/screech some young kids do? I absolutely hate it. It hates my ears hurt. I can manage noisy kids, but I hate hate that.

My nephew makes those high pitched screaming sounds because he has tourettes syndrome and he is also autistic.

I'll tell him to stop for you will I?

I hate it too. Couldn't stick it even from my own three, though thankfully it didn't happen often. It goes right through you.

I do have sympathy with parents for whom it is a regular thing for whatever reason. It would be very trying indeed.

Do you seriously think someone is going to turn up and say, ohhh I love it. Especially the one that make your ear drums feel like a trampoline.

Hate it so much, hate it more when parents don't tell them to be quiet or laugh about it.

@BreakYourselfAgainstMyStones

Stop being so precious, you know fine well what the OP meant.

My 6 year old started it a few months ago .... he gets a sharp 'no' and it's stopping now!

One of my DC does this, not sure where they learnt it as they have never been around a screamer.
The more I say not to do it the more they do, equally the more strangers show their annoyance the more they seem to enjoy doing it.
They have just turned 2 and ignoring it seems to be working best and they appear to be growing out of it.
I absolutely hate it but stopping it is very difficult.

I am not saying it is easy to stop. Josie You have my sympathy. I was at a party where a child kept doing this. I asked what was the matter. She said nothing, she just did that a lot. I think she just liked doing that. My ears hurt.

It's awful. My DH (very likely undiagnosed Aspergers) can't bear it and it physically hurts his ears. There is a child who lives behind us who screams everytime she bounces on the trampoline. Drives me insane and ruins a lovely summers day. I always told my kids off for doing this sort of thing and they would have been in big trouble if they carried on after that!

I hate it!! I can never am understand the parents who just carry on regardless. Omg tell them to stop screaming ffs 😫😂

DD 2 has just started doing this. I hate it also,

My 15m twins love to screech at each other. It does my head it. They think it’s hilarious

I doubt anyone actually likes it what a strange thread!

I hate it aswell. My kids get told not to do it!

How strange, OP. The rest of us all adore high-pitched child shrieking. Can't get enough of it, in fact. If we can't have a screaming child in the vicinity, we play recordings.

YANBU. Awful sound. My nephew used to do it when he was excited, and it really would hurt your ears. Thankfully he grew out of it.

It's doubly annoying when parents make no attempt to quieten down a child doing this in a public space.

No idea why some posters are getting so snippy about this thread. Just don't read it if you think it's pointless.

how young? Under 20m are still discovering their voices, and you'll traumatise an over-excited 10m old rather than be able to teach him how to be quiet.

I stopped my two year old, well nearly 2, doing it by whispering at her back and if that didnt work time out in her room, ypu could still hear her so my poor head didnt get any relief

Nobody likes it. Unfortunately sometimes it can’t be helped. But it only becomes a problem when parents fail to address it and provide appropriate discipline to prevent it continuing. It’s a problem with the parent not the child.

My DC aged 3 does. The other 3 kids didn't, but for some reason this one loves to scream. I think he learned it at nursery. I do Janet Lansbury/Faber&Mazlisch type parenting so it's slowly receding.

It is horrendous.

I thought most people absolutely love screeching? How odd that you don't.

My son is profoundly Autistic (totally non verbal, still in nappies even though he's a man), he is scared still of kids because of their unpredictable noises, screaming kids have him fighting his carer, I mean biting, hair pulling etc. It's a nightmare to be in public, so stressful that we don't go out often.

I find myself resenting children and I hate feeling that way. If we're on a beach (rarely) children scream at the waves, I'm thinking "for gods sake, shut up" - a world without kids screaming/having fun, isn't one I'd want and I hate myself for thinking that way, but I know a meltdown is imminent. 😞

Presumably the parents who ignore it in public have found that that is the best way - as with a tantrum. Some children stop tantrums / screeching sooner if ignored because any attention feeds it, whether it's good or bad attention.

Obviously screeching in neurotypical children aged over about 3 should be addressed firmly, but in toddlers sometimes antisocial behaviour phases stop being interesting far faster if they receive no attention.

Buy yourself ear defenders. They will help 😊

Yanbu

Never raised a screecher or squealer it makes your ears bleed