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?

Weird, I was having the exact same conversation with another teacher the other day. Kids are screeching now. No reason for it. It’s just this high pitched noise for the sake of noise and it is grating.

Agree with you OP. Screaming and screeching is annoying and unnecessary.

Like another poster said, sometimes it's adults too. I find adults bellowing in the street to each other or having very loud conversations in the garden to be irritating too.

Some people seem to live very noisy lives. If the adults in the home shout through the house and model unreasonably noisy garden behaviour, and don't challenge the screaming, then it's no wonder the children will shout to be heard, learn noisy behaviour and scream

I work in a primary and I have noticed an increase in this post COVID.
One of the culprits lives across the road from another member of staff and apparently they scream and screech constantly without any objection from the parents.

We have to tell them all the time they're hurting ours and the other children's ears, they are really piercing screeches.

I think, as children and adults become more sociable again, it will get better. Another thing I noticed is that certain age groups, who would normally play with each other, now play next to one another or don't know how to role play. Maybe this has something to do with it too...

Glad it’s not just me then. I note the usual special needs child mother excusing it. For the record my son is autistic and has always done this sort of thing or makes weird noises. They still have to be part of society and if they are being annoying, you bring them in. They can learn, it just takes longer. He’s 18 and is far less annoying now than he used to be.

My next door neighbours kid screams at the top of her voice as she scoots around the street, parents just ignore it and it drives me mad. They’re school teachers who basically let their DC do what they want as long as they don’t have to parent, incl being out up to 9pm screaming in the street at 7/8 YO. Their living room is at the back of the house, so they can’t hear it as bad as the rest of the street, I regularly go out and ask their DC to stop screaming as mine is in bed at a reasonable time for school the next day. If I ask them to have a word they will, but each time they pretend they can’t hear it 🤦🏻‍♀️ I think it’s different parenting styles, but the sound drives me mad! Don’t understand how anyone can’t hear it

What a load of grinches! Can't you simply enjoy the joy of childhood laughter? The innocence and playfulness of the young?

Nah, I'm with you, does my bloody head in

It’s not the sound of them having fun is it. In my road it’s kids with no volume control whining “muuuuuuuuuuuum” at the top of their voices because they either can’t be arsed or haven’t been told to go and find their parent and speak in a normal voice rather than shouting from the end of the garden. Then add in the sibling in-fighting and inevitable crying, for the whole street to hear because their parents don’t give a toss that other people also live there. These parents always tend to be the ones that love that over the top loud parenting style where everyone around them simply must know how enthuastic they are and hear what their child is saying /doing all the time. It’s very boring

Not really. It is possible to play without screeching, plus I think OP literally said not normal playing and screaming occasionally noise, which happens, it’s the persistent screeching that seems to be a trend. There are some here that deliberately do jt outside peoples houses (older kids) for no reason when they’re not playing so it is definitely to annoy people!

Sorry but there definitely is an increase. Speak to any teacher, most will say that behaviour has drastically declined since covid and children and old children seem to do mental attention-seeking things like just scream. Children were plunged into staying at home for 18 months, it is going to have an affect and the parents just aren’t handling it. Not talking about babies screaming or normal baby or kids playing-squealing, it’s just the persistent and deliberate annoying screeching. And it has increased.

I haven’t noticed this at all, what an odd phenomenon! Do you think we all got sensitised to noise in lockdown or is it really that kids are screaming more? I used to be super sensitive to noise so maybe I have just gone deaf!

Not for those unfortunate people who have to hear it!

So many people saying ‘ mine screech; I tell them not to but they don’t listen.’
seek advice on dealing with your children so that they listen to you, would be my advice.

Stop criticising other people’s parenting is my advice!

it's people lack of parenting we are criticising

Sorry but there definitely is an increase. Speak to any teacher, most will say that behaviour has drastically declined since covid and children and old children seem to do mental attention-seeking things like just scream. Children were plunged into staying at home for 18 months, it is going to have an affect and the parents just aren’t handling it. Not talking about babies screaming or normal baby or kids playing-squealing, it’s just the persistent and deliberate annoying screeching. And it has increased
I have friends in EYFS and KS1 and they've been saying this for months.

I hadn't noticed because my DC aren't screamers, but I watched DC on a playdate recently and was shocked to see how many other children were screaming, (including mine which surprised me) and I was the only parent who spoke to my child about the fact it's not acceptable.

I'm sure mine aren't angels when they're away of us, most children will push boundaries a bit, but it's my job as their parent to teach them what's acceptable behaviour.

Just a lack of discipline these days - more parents don't give a shit.

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Spot on. And they can’t upset their DC, who are just expressing their feelings

Give them a break, I'm guessing none of us have lived through a pandemic as a child

There seems to be plenty of adults screaming and screeching in the street by me too

And they don’t want to appease whinging moaning unreasonable neighbours

screeching kids are unpleasant for other children too.

The lack of consideration for anyone and the lazy parenting is a bad combination.

They were screeching long before the pandemic ime.

I was working in my front garden one day last week and could hear this dreadful screaming. It was school pick up time at our village primary and I genuinely thought something terrible had happened. It got louder and a Mum and her two kids came passed screaming at the tops of their voices. Mum looked at me and said oh they do love their screaming competitions, and just laughed. Yesterday I walked passed their house and the screaming could be heard from their back garden into the road. I don't know how she stood it day after day and God help their neighbours. They are twins apparently and about 6. Hopefully they will grow out of it soon

Just been to the park, full of screaming kids.

As it should be