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 to put up with it until nearly 9pm some nights.

Kids screeching is not MY problem however, it's the parents laziness. It's unnecessary and rude.

It's the same with every noise: necessary building work, warming up your car in the winter is one thing. Loud builder music, idiots illegally keeping their engine idling because they can't be bothered to open a window in the summer, not on.

Kids screeching has no point, doesn't add to their enjoyment, it's just a pure annoyance for everybody. Parents have to be another lazy not to bother telling me not to scream or screech, how hard is it? The rest of us manage.

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

Those things are necessary or unavoidable. Most children(special needs asides) do not need to scream while playing. They can still make noise but screaming is not necessary.

I'm a fantastic parent and she's a sweet, thoughtful, polite delight.

I just think a periodic shriek in a swimming pool isn't beyond the pale.

You are confusing general noise and excited children, and screeching feral kids. Parents have always knows how to tell children to keep the noise down a bit.

did you just call your screeching child " a polite delight"? 😂😂😂

I hope you are on a wind up, because you win the thread

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!”

Entirely normal behaviour.

Yeah, she's a delight, lovely in restaurants, well-mannered in shops, she also occasional shouts whilst swimming. I'm fine with it. If someone can weep in the Sistine Chapel, she can have a quick little scream in a swimming pool.

Consideration for other people has really gone downhill and this is part of that. As per PP I don't mind the sound of kids playing, it's quite nice sometimes but the screeching so loud I can't have my windows open? That's completely unnecessary. But their parents are probably the people who listen to music / FaceTime without headphones on a train. I've asked a couple of those to keep it down and the reaction was fascinating. They actually weren't aggro, but genuinely really surprised at the idea that their behaviour in a public place had an impact on those around them. It's an incredible lack of self awareness and ability to navigate shared spaces. And it's the same issue with people who don't attempt to moderate the noise their kids make (SN aside).

Nah, it's fucking tedious to have to listen to screeching kids. If they can't play without screeching, keep them inside. Then only you have to put up with it.

'Because they are kids' is no excuse. They don't all do it. Parents seem to be deaf to their own children's shitty screaming. It's annoying.

YANBU OP.

I’m not sure following my 11 year old DS round with his mates is “good parenting” but there you go. DS isn’t really a screecher anyway but he does do a lot of shouting when he plays football, which is normal.

What worries me is that people will not notice if a child is screaming because something terrible is happening to them or they're hurt. The noise is now so ubiquitous that we all just collectively try to drown it out. There's a real danger to parents just allowing kids to scream incessantly.

MissyB1,

my grandaughter 9, screamed, I ran into the front room heart thumping thought something terrible had happened, to find she was responding to something on her tablet. I remonstrated but her mother, my daughter, didn’t seem to grasp why I was upset, although she had never screamed as a child and would have been told not to.
I thought my grandaughter was too young to understand the implications and not my place to tell her, although my daughter and I have yet to follow this up, just don’t scream please.

Hearing young women scream is an alarm call, they could be attacked, hurt, raped, worse,
There are accounts of young girls screaming and people going to assist being attacked themselves and indeed killed.

The one which sticks in my mind was of a small group of mid teens outside a house repeatedly screaming, man runs out, sees girl being hit, grabs her to drag her inside to safety, stabbed in neck by other friend, dies, teens run away.
I have tried to find this to no avail, does anyone remember. There have been more
but this one sticks in my mind.

As another poster said, adrenaline kicks in, too many false alarms, no help when it’s needed.
As in the case of young woman being stabbed in an evening, screaming, householders questioned said, ‘we thought it was kids coming home messing about playfighting and screaming’
although you could argue had anyone run out they too could have been stabbed

Why don’t parents explain this correlation, why don’t secondary schools

You start parenting BEFORE they are 11 for a start.

Mine plays football like most kids, they all still manage to keep it to a reasonable level and understand that the context matters.

Time and a place you know?

Actually no, in many cases they are definitely not.

Yes and playing football in a large open space is a more than reasonable time to be noisy…you know.

🤣🤣🤣 screeching children are not being sweet, thoughtful or polite. They are a public menace and failing to correct it does not a good parent make.

If someone can weep in the Sistine Chapel, she can have a quick little scream in a swimming pool.

Weeping is generally not noisy or intrusive to others. Even a "quick little" scream in swimming pool acoustics is incredibly annoying.

I hope they make a better fist of explaining the correlation than you because this is incomprehensible.

I believe she wailed and collapsed also.

exactly, you described this more succinctly than my post with examples,
sometimes its ear piercing, a nuisance noise.

Screaming as an auditory tool - when we lived miles from anywhere, my daughter would walk to the field gate, scream when her horse was about half a mile away,
the pitch would reach him, he would come trotting up ears forward, ‘whats up’ - even animals react, mum’s dog would growl at high pitched screamers outside.

Yep - the screaming meant she was escorted out by the Vatican guards. Because screaming is anti-social.

Love this and agree 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

What a thread that was.

God your world must be so easy
My children are screechers but no amount of bringing inside makes them learn. Soon as the door opens they are back at it. Even over at the park, all the kids are screeching. Dunno what it is but it really isn't that simple