Kids that shriek?

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Just that really, why?? My 2 don't, not because they're miraculously non shrieking... Because we've drummed it into them not to. I'm not talking toddlers, I'm talking 5+ when they feel the need to shriek, shout and scream all. The. Time

Can you tell my pandemic experience has been framed by the 9 year old twins next door screaming in their garden throughout?

I work in a school- there are plenty entirely neurotypical children who shriek. Even outside it's too much sometimes. Surely it hursts their throats?!

"I also hate the implication that all children who have SEN can't learn to behave. My neighbours son has ASD and he knows he isn't allowed to make that sort of noise in the garden."

SN covers an enormous spectrum of need. I do think that all but those profoundly disabled can over time learn/manage there own behaviour as regards to persistent screaming and shrieking but in young ND children this may not have happened yet. This sort of behaviour in school aged NT children is annoying even in playgrounds and soft play ( the persistent ear piercing shrieking for no reason often done by several children playing together). It drove my son out of these places when he was younger.

SN covers an enormous spectrum of need. I do think that all but those profoundly disabled can over time learn/manage there own behaviour as regards to persistent screaming and shrieking but in young ND children this may not have happened yet.

Also there's the age at which this is discovered. We've tried to teach DS for years not to shriek, and not to do various things. But we were parenting him as if he were NT and now it turns out he may not be and has been referred for assessment for autism, and having filled in the assessment form and had to think about and list all his behaviours it seems very likely he is.

Then you tell them off properly and sternly for it, every single time.

It's really bloody rude, irritating and honestly puts people off wanting to be near them - and you.

One of the Mums outside school used to let her twin daughters do the same every morning, bombing around screeching, knocking in to people with scooters, and genuinely stressing out the younger children.

Until we all, one by one, told them off over a period of weeks. Think she finally got the hint when one Mum practically shouted something along the lines of "WILL THE OWNER OF THE FERAL SCREAMING BANSHEES PLEASE GET THEM AWAY FROM MY CHILD", after they'd bowled her son over on the path for 20th time that month.

THIS!!!

Although it does seem that >80% of mumsnetters have children with ADHD/ASD. Seems very high.

Doesn’t really seem that high when you consider that no one will talk to us in real life because of our shrieking kids that couldn’t be forced in to being silent model citizens by age 5.

To be fair, a child who bites is a problem. Even if they have some additional needs, it isn’t possible to let one child go around biting others. Nursery will get complaints and other parents will start avoiding them.

I can imagine that many parents of children do hang out a lot on MN because it’s hard, lonely work a lot of the time.

Very obvious from this thread which posters let their kids shriek and do fuck all about it. Unless your child has additional needs and can't control themselves, you are a shitty person if you let your kids do this with no regard for others and your kids will grow up to be dicks who don't give a shit either.

It's a spectrum ,just because your neighbours child can do so some children with SEN will never be able to understand, my son has severe autism and learning disabilities, he's a shreiker ,he has no concept he has autism but I guess he like, s the sound and the feeling he gets, my neighbour screamed at me to shut him a few weeks ,he was screaming in his own garden before 7pm and was making far less noise than all the other kids playing out were .