Kids screeching

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Is it my imagination or is there an increase in children who cannot play without screeching and screaming their head off. I'm not talking about ordinary 'children playing out' noise but ear piercing shrieking over and over.
I live beside a green and this Summer have nearly been driven to distraction some days by children doing this. Sometimes it goes on until 9 o clock at night, so not just younger children. No parent ever comes out to put a stop to it, so presumably they think it's ok. Am I just getting over sensitive to noise, or is this genuinely something new?

Right but how do you propose to stop.it ?you can't there are lots of annoying
Sounds si.e of which are far more annoying then kids screeching

Kids screeching is about as annoying as it gets for me. I'm autistic and it triggers my sensory overload faster than many things.

Also. You know the people who are responsible for said kids? The parents. Here's a novel idea but hear me out. They could try parenting and tell them to stop and make them come in if they don't.

I work in a secondary school and I can can confirm that teenagers are screaming on the playground and even in the classroom! It's like they have completely forgotten how to act appropriately in any setting

It's ridiculous and no good reason for it. As a child I was told of for unnecessary screaming and my Dad used to say how would anyone know if something was genuinely wrong if we screamed for no good reason?

I always think of that when someone is attacked but people ignored the scream because they thought it was 'someone messing around'.

Better that than them all sitting inside on their backsides watching YouTube…

Why do people always come out with shit like this? It doesn't have to be one or the other. They can still play out and have fun without screaming.

I remember when DD1 was about 18 months old and I was pushing her in a baby swing, she was squealing and giggling in delight. A dad in the playground I was talking to said "OMG that's ear piercing- how do you stand it?" Whereas I barely noticed it or enjoyed the sound. I think what has changed is your perception, and tolerance for noise.

I don't use my garden because of it and have to keep my windows shut in summer
Next door scream all day, and were out at past 10pm this weekend screaming
Gardens are laid out so close that their trampoline is an inch from my fence, and I don't want to wear headphones every time I'm in the garden
They don't even live there which makes it more annoying

Also 40 years ago I remember adults telling us off for being too loud playing out or to stop screaming and I had no idea we were even being loud or screaming and were just enjoying ourselves as far as I was concerned. I think there have always been squealing children and grumpy old farts finding them too loud.

Although I can't say that I'd care if they were sitting inside watching Youtube. That suits me perfectly well but playing outside without constant screaming works too and still allows them to have fresh air and fun outside.

A few times I've genuinely not been able to tell if a child is in distress because of the screaming which is rather unsettling. Thankfully when I checked all has been ok but it's much easier to tell if they don't constantly screech.

The kids next door to me do this. I don’t mind noise, i have grown up children, grandchildren and i am sure we make plenty - its the constant ear piercing screaming that gets me. Its not normal play and so loud you can’t have a conversation in our garden.
Funnily enough they don’t do it when the parents are out with them. Im sure they just leave them to it if they are busy in the house.

I love the sound of children playing- a bit of low level shouting and laughing is fine but I also hate squealing and screaming.
When my two were small I told them that if they screamed and shouted loudly it meant an emergency (ie someone hurt), if they kept screaming and yelling for no reason then no one would come and help them in an emergency as they would presume they were just playing as normal.

My children are grown up now and the neighbours kids play outside my house. They know that they are very welcome to ride their bikes / scooters / skates up and down all day, chalk on the pavement (love seeing their creativity) and they often stop for a chat or to say hello when I am arriving home or leaving for work. Often see all the kids from our street having a football game in the road (it’s a dead end road so safe) and it’s lovely to see all the different age groups playing out together. They also know that I won’t tolerate screaming/ squealing outside my window or my front wall being used to kick a ball against (“go do that against your mum and dads wall, the noise is annoying”) so they know my limits!

Agreed

I've noticed it with teenagers as well. They always shout and roar as if they're conversing from opposite ends of a field instead of standing right beside each other.
I was in a petrol station yesterday and the young assistants has music playing so loudly I had to shout the number of the pump I'd used. Young people seem to have become desensitised to loud noise.

This!

It's so rare for kids to be able play out that we're not so used to it.

I'd rather have kids screaming that the constant traffic noise that blights our cities

@Catspyjamas17 Totally agree! My DD is 19 months and often makes high pitched squeals out of pure delight. She'll also sometimes do it just because she can, like she's experimenting with her voice but it's always when she's happy so I'm absolutely fine with it.
Surely older kids screaming and screeching are doing so when they're playing - maybe engaging in imaginative play, chasing each other - I'd rather hear that noise than them being told to keep quiet, plonked in front of the TV/computer/tablet/games console and having their brains warped by the modern world of technology!

That only works for a garden, many replies reference parks, footpaths etc. Unless you plan on following them round everywhere they go…?

It's so rare for kids to be able play out that we're not so used to it.

It's not rare here, not at all. There might have been some kids screaming 40 years ago but not as many and their parents generally had the decency to tell them to stop it.

Surely older kids screaming and screeching are doing so when they're playing - maybe engaging in imaginative play, chasing each other - I'd rather hear that noise than them being told to keep quiet, plonked in front of the TV/computer/tablet/games console and having their brains warped by the modern world of technology!

No they do it constantly. Not just when being changed, like casually walking slowly past my house as I mentioned happened the other week so no need to scream.

And again to state the bloody obvious they can play outside without constant screaming. They don't go mute and unable to bear sunlight when asked to atop screeching!

Stop.

You were just used to it

That only works for a garden, many replies reference parks, footpaths etc. Unless you plan on following them round everywhere they go…?

Well no but if you get them used to not screaming then they're less likely to do it and just because you can't constantly be with them does that mean that you give up on trying to manage their behaviour at all?

We screamed outside.

It's normal.

I can understand a bit of shrieking when they're playing chase or similar but when you see them just standing there letting out screams or strolling past screaming I do wonder WTF that's about?

We screamed outside.

You might have. I didn't and if I ever repeatedly did I'd have been told very quickly to stop it.