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?

Years ago when I worked in a nursery over the summer holidays, there were two kids, brother and sister, who did this. They would stand in the outside play area and scream at each other. Perfectly happy and smiling, but to express their excitement at being outside they would open their mouths and just scream and scream. Unbelievably loud and I’d never seen anything like it before. It lasted about a day before the manager came out and told them to stop. I remember thinking at the time that I pitied their parents’ neighbours.

Oh for goodness sakes!
Children having fun? Whatever next.
When I was young I never screamed with excitement, I never watched tv, I was always polite to adults, I was absolutely 100% perfect at all times.
The youth of today. Dear me....whatever shall we do? Bring back the cane I say! Tally ho

I've lived in my house for well over twenty years.

I've never heard such screaming and shrieking as we've had the last couple of years.

Neighbours seem to have some sort of plunge pool . Their kids scream, non stop, for what seems like hours at the weekends, evenings and throughout school holidays... even on school nights.

We no longer enjoy our garden , which was always fairly peaceful. We often hear other children , squealing and giggling , which is absolutely fine, but screaming?!

I wouldn't ordinarily mind but the children next door are teenagers and have no SEN ( in case anyone wants to comment.)

Why scream?

Oh for goodness sakes!
Children having fun? Whatever next.
When I was young I never screamed with excitement, I never watched tv, I was always polite to adults, I was absolutely 100% perfect at all times.
The youth of today. Dear me....whatever shall we do? Bring back the cane I say! Tally ho

What BS. No one claimed to be perfect. The difference was that our parents, the decent ones at least, stopped us if we did and it's perfectly possible for children to still make noise and have fun without bloody screaming. I appreciate that may be a difficult concept for your tiny mind but it's perfectly possible.

YANBU,

I've had two lots of neighbours with kids similar ages and sexes. One lot were the screeching kind and the other not. The lot that didn't screech were also 100 times ore polite while the others were rude.

Letting your kids screech is really lazy parenting. All kids ca be noisy but screeching is never ok.

Normal shouting, laughing and carry on doesn't bother me but high pitched squealing and screaming does. My daughter is older now but when she was younger I explained to her that high pitched scream was like an alarm/ cry for help and she was only to use it if she needed help ASAP. Even back then though I noticed other parents letting it go and not questioning or challenging it. I always thought they were missing out in a great teaching moment where communication with your child in an emergency situation could be established. I get there might be other screams eg excitement but scream =emergency is a good starting point.

You're being silly. Nobody in their right mind objects to kids having fun or being happy. But annoying piercing screaming is a thing, and it does happen, and many people dislike it, as they are entitled to.

Thank you. Well said.

If they are old enough to go to the park by themselves then they are old enough to know not to scream

Agree with you kids just in their gardens and shouting and just screaming for ages, their own parents just ignore them. If we did that when we were kids we would be sent to our room. My own son and his friends when small were always out playing football on the green minus the screeching. All to do with parenting as some just do not parent. Same as you is nice to hear kids playing but the endless high pitched screeching goes through my head. Or neighbours having their music and base so loud in their garden that nobody else can enjoy their own garden. A bit of respect and consideration for other's goes a long way but some just seem to not care or are brain dead and only think of themselves.

Lets face it that kind of noise is antisocial and would never have been tolerated in the old days. Its awful, like being punched in the face.

Yes! NDN child does it from 6am til bedtime. My own kids are older and won't even sit outside anymore because of it. The parents actively encourage it by roaring around after her all day long.

Not being unreasonable. Mine do it constantly & I am constantly telling them to shut up or taking them in! I don’t want to listen to it, no matter if they’re mine or not!

I have kids.... I have 4 nieces and nephew's and I swear it's watching fucking George out of Peppa Pig!!!! It's the shows they watch!! I don't let me kids watch cocomelon, paw patrol, Peppa Pig IRRITATES ME!!! That's where they get it. Honestly I can't stand it.... I do tell the kids off when they do it. All adults should! Your not being unreasonable at all xx

Said absolutely no one on this thread.

Stop being an arse.

This is so sad!

Yes kids scream and have fun.
It can be annoying but so can dogs barking, cars reving, loud music.
I’d rather have kids screaming and laughing all day than most other noises.

I guess some people just prefer them to be staring at a screen all day so they stay quiet.

I guess some people just prefer them to be staring at a screen all day so they stay quiet.

Have you actually read the bloody thread? For the 500th time, kids can play outside and make noise and have fun without constantly screaming! It's really not that difficult a concept. Other sounds are available.

Yanbu. I’ve never allowed my DC to do it. And any of their friends who do it don’t get invited back.

I have no idea why so many people seem to be insistent that children cannot play outside if they aren't screaming. Why they think it has to be playing outside with screaming or staying indoors.

Maybe read the thread properly before you start accusing people of saying things they never actually said.

We have a few kids in our road like this and their parents are the ones to blame. If they never tell their kids to pipe down and stop shouting/whining/arguing/being a loud pain in the arse, the kids will not know any different.

Are some people really saying they actually can’t stop their children doing annoying shit? By and large most children should be able to do as they’re told by their parents. Or have we given up on that now? YANBU op. It’s lazy inconsiderate parenting.

I'm guessing it's a combination of things - a general move away from the culture of children should be seen and not heard; children having less freedom and so spending more time in gardens close to homes than out in parks and in the woods; homes being built closer together etc. We are a family who are louder than I would like but part of that reason is we have a child with hearing difficulties and a hugely struggling NHS which is making kids wait for up to and often over a year to get help, so my children and us tend to talk louder otherwise he wouldn't hear anything. For those that say they have to go in and shut doors and windows on sunny days, surely it would be better to just get headphones and enjoy your garden with your choice of music or in silence if you prefer and get ear cancelling headphones - just a suggestion.

You can always tell who the screamers belong to on these threads.

The house two down from me is terrible for this - the two kids scream and shriek all day long, and their mum chucks them out into the back yard at 6am on weekends. She herself has the world’s loudest voice and apparently can’t talk at any kind of normal volume so I assume none of the household has a clue how loud they all are. It’s hideous and I spend the summer months praying they get laryngitis!

The estate is full of kids and there are a fair few screamers but this family just goes above and beyond.

I just don’t know why everyone has to be so bloody loud these days. It’s like nowhere is quiet anymore.

My kids do this - I’m constantly telling them and talking to them about why not to do it but they still do it! 🙈 I’m their mum and find it infuriating so I can only imagine how others feel! But please don’t think parents don’t care - we do, and try to stop it, but it’s seem impossible to get them to stop! Tips welcome 😂