10 year olds screaming outside

[Mokel]

Sitting on my balcony which is at right angles to a green area in the middle of my road and there are kids at least 10 years old running about and SCREAMING! It's doing my head in.

What age do you think children should stop screaming?

Do you mean shouting? Screaming makes me think they are in distress or pain.

I don't know. Unfortunately they need somewhere to be kids. 10 is still young and playing, having fun. I appreciate how annoying it might be for you though.

Really? Kids play and are noisy but are having fun and not actually doing anything wrong. This reminds me of the grumpy old people who used to shout at us when we were kids playing out. "Get round your own end!" they'd say. It made us feel as if we weren't welcome in the estate we lived on.

People will be along to tell you that you are unreasonable and kids make noise.

Not sure what happened to respecting that other people live there too. Playing is one thing. Shouting and screaming is another.

lolll
Indeed

"Get to your own end of the street and annoy your own Mother" 😄

I remember a party for about 10 year olds, I don't really know what set them off screaming in the garden, I went out and told them someone would call the police, they settled down. Afterwards they said another boy from the school was in the garden, absolutely not (lived miles away), but still why scream?

Edit: We do have a quite big garden, safe but children can be out of sight sometimes, but no possibility of others getting in unnoticed.

I hear you, OP.
It's a thing nowadays mainly because no one tells them to stop. No one needs to scream unless they're in danger. Screaming is not the same as shouting and playing.

What age should they stop? They shouldn't start. I seem to have arrived at today without ever screaming.Weird eh?

My cousins lived in tenement flats in the 70's. All the kids would play out and the family sizes varied from 3-6 kids. The noise level wasn't what you hear today and we wouldn't be allowed to get to the volume that they do now. I agree that it us a matter of being allowed, like dropping litter.

I know what you mean by "screaming".
It's not "just kids playing" but a noise that should only be used when being eaten by wolves or kidnapped by aliens.
Do you know the kids well enough to shout down "OMG KIDS - STOP WITH YA SCREAMING YOU'RE DOING MY HEAD IN"?
I've done that before - but I knew the kids (and their parents).

Well there was another thread recently along similar lines about children and the noise when they are playing outside and destroying other people's leisure because of the noise they make, often at a latish hour.
I posted on that thread .I really don't understand why children of any age are literally screaming at when they are playing. The children where I moved to do it. And to tbh I thought at first when I heard them they were being attacked, had a really bad accident or something similar.
When did this become a norm - that it was acceptable for children to literally scream? As I understood you taught children from an early age don't scream when you are playing: other wise how will people know when to intervene if something untoward is happening to you?
So there is a real safety issue involved in children of any age routinely screaming when playing, apart from the fact it really negatively impacts on the life quality of any one having to listen to them.

I also hear you. Kids can shout and play noisily and that's tolerable. Screaming isn't necessary and is unpleasant. Neighbours kids one side do it when they are arguing...just open their mouths and shriek as loud as to drown each other out. One's usually sobbing loudly and the other screaming. They alternate ....presumably to load more oxygen for volume.

Occasionally mum shouts "will you fucking shut up" at full volume. 🙄

Dad is quiet, and kids are quiet around him. Hoping they divorce and he keeps the kids and house 😆

I hear you, next door had some screaming girls round yesterday, no need for it. If my own DD and friends have started any of that (and they have once or twice) they've been told firmly no screaming. It's not just normal kids playing noise it's literal screaming and not pleasant to hear. Wouldn't dream of letting them disturb other people like that.