Kids screeching

[Vintagejazzing]

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?

I have small children. They do not screech because it is not acceptable here. Their friends are not allowed to screech in my home or garden. I think it has increased because some parents just do not correct it.

I let mine scream at the park if the desire overtakes her.

I discourage screaming in the garden.

I would allow a degree of shrieking in a swimming pool.

Pleased to have worked that through.

You have to start young with them, so that by the time they're old enough to be wandering about on their own they have enough social boundaries and know what's acceptable behaviour.

Sadly, the ship has already sailed with many of the screamers that walk past my house on their way home from school.

But if you teach children to tone it down and consider other people when they're at home in their garden then they will know how to behave in the park etc. Same way as if you teach children to obey adults at home then they will know how to behave when they start school; if you teach children how to sit at the table and eat properly at home then they will know how to behave in restaurants etc.

It all starts with good parenting at home.

NC for this but this is what I get all summer
Their garden is inches from my window, no separation at all because they're effectively terraced houses

All day, over summer and all evening
I can't escape it inside or in my garden

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You can tell who the parents are who let their kids run riot in supermarkets and restaurants are. Heaven forbid that you teach your child some consideration for others.

Shrieking at a swimming pool is especially annoying because of the acoustics. I would be hating you both. Totally unnecessary.

summerisssues Sincere Sympathies. That's awful. I'd probably go insane and pull a King Herod on them.

I am a good parent at home thanks but I also teach them to be themselves and I’m sorry but if being out and about, playing with friends and enjoying themselves is noisy then so be it, as long as they’re not directly disrespecting anyone. If they can’t be noisy outside and they have to quiet little church mice inside then clearly something is wrong.

Yes but it's also normal for a parent to realise when the screaming has been going on too long and intervene. Also to train their children to understand that screaming is a way of alerting people that you're in danger, so if you do it all the time you will have no way of letting people know that you need help.

No one said they can't be noisy. We said that prolonged and regular ear piercing shrieking and screaming is annoying. And I'm sorry but if you're teaching your children that's ok in public places then you're not teaching them to be considerate people who respect others.

There seems to be a very deplorable tendency for young women to scream at the top of their voices to signify excitement, or when meeting someone (usually another young woman) that they are pleased to see. I saw and heard this in a café a little while ago. After three screams the manager went over and asked them to cut it out. They seemed not quite to understand why.

I simply wouldn't care.

There seems to be a very deplorable tendency for young women to scream at the top of their voices to signify excitement, or when meeting someone (usually another young woman) that they are pleased to see. I saw and heard this in a café a little while ago. After three screams the manager went over and asked them to cut it out. They seemed not quite to understand why.

Adults who do that ought to be drowned in the nearest available water source.

I live in an area were children play out. There was only one family that shrieked. Unfortunately the little girl came off her bike and badly injured herself. No-one took any notice because we were used to that volume and ongoing screaming. It took someone passing by to help her. She had a fracture. That's her normal level. They've since quietened down. I used to apologise because my girls were loud, my youngest set the volume, being autistic and having hearing loss, but they didn't come close to what you hear today. Screaming isn't a need like running around is. The bus drivers are starting to get tougher and tell the tween/teen groups to keep it down. As said the volume from the girls is ridiculous.

YANBU and I think it's gotten worse since lockdown. My actual street is quiet but a new estate has been built opposite and it's populated by people who let their kids run wild. They seemingly care neither for their children's safety or others' peace. The kids treat the road as their playground, they play football on top of garages and they screech for no apparent reason. The older kids are actually worse than the younger ones at times, there's a few girls of maybe around 9-10 and they stand in the road on their scooters screaming at the top of their lungs at nearly 9am at night. We're moving as soon as we have the funds. I don't let DD scream, it's really not hard to teach them not to do it.

That is why I hated Friends. It's not a new thing

Totally agree 😂

Dh shouted at a group of young women who were screaming in a restaurant, their friends arrived and the most unholy screaming and shrieking ensued!! Dh spilt his wine because it was so loud and so sudden- which is why he reacted so angrily. He shouted “no one is attacking you so bloody stop that stupid screaming!”

I’m not teaching them that no. DS has a couple of friends who are like that and it can be annoying but ultimately, especially if they’re outside playing football or whatever then to my mind it’s not the end of the world. In a town centre type area obviously that’s different. Then again, that level of disrespect is no worse than so many older people who expect kids to cow tow to them at every turn in a town centre so horses for courses.

@brunettemic

I'm with you.

They're supposed to make a racket while playing out

That is why children behave badly. Parents not parenting.

Parents to actually PARENT for a change?

Kids screeching is one of the most annoying sound in the world, it is so much worst when you have young ones too, because you end up in "kids friendly" places where it's relentless.

It's so easy to tell them to keep it reasonably quiet, but parents are unbelievably lazy.

@TheWalrusdidbeseech

Lots of things annoy me, doesn't mean I get to demand that they are stopped.

I hate bright lights, sudden noises, the feel of metal anything, crowds.

I accept that these are my problems and get on with it

being overly noisy IS disrespectful. What does screeching bring to them anyway? Nothing. There's no need to be ridiculously noisy outside or inside.

You could try to be "a good parent" outside too, when it actually impact others, not just you 😂

Kids have always screeched. We used to do it in the 60s we used to run around playing chase, hide and seek, water fights. All the things kid used to do. It was called having fun.
It stopped when we all came in at 7pm.
Nobody complained because they were kids once themselves