How to stop kids from screaming

[jenzzi]

Hardly slept last night. Need to sleep now. But the problem is there are children playing near to my home and are screaming. They are 3-10 years old.

Do kids realise that screaming all the time means that they had crap parenting and it’s bloody annoying

Can’t sleep with headphones

Do people that can hear kids screaming realise that maybe those children have the best parents in the world however they could be screaming for a reason ?

It is not their fault you didn't sleep last night. I assume by screaming you mean playing outside having fun?

Put some white noise on in your room.

I never allowed actual screaming from my kids, but a lot of people seem to define most child related noise as “screaming” when it’s a bit of loud voices, laughing and the odd shriek. I think they’re allowed to make noise sometimes - it’s part of being a kid.

Given it’s lunchtime I think you’re completely unreasonable. Get some silicone earplugs.

It's 1pm on a Saturday - kids are allowed to play and make noise.

Get some of those over-ear headphone things or earplugs if you need to sleep.

Try wax earplugs.

There's playing and then there's unacceptable constant screaming. It's very telling when parents pretend the two are the same. They definitely aren't.

If you are the parent that lets your kid shriek and scream all day long then you are a dickhead. Mine make noise. If they start screaming at each other, they come in. It's not ok to be bone idle and just push them outside so their screaming becomes other people's problem.

You'll always get shite parents, trying to justify their lack of parenting stating "it's what children do". No no. It's what some children are ignorantly allowed to do when their parents have no consideration or respect for other people in the vicinity.

I think if they are multiple DC from different families, then it is probably normal noise from play rather than screaming.

Do you think your self entitlement is due to crap parenting?

Lol. Look at that.

Hey, @op it's not shit parenting because these shitly parented kids are screaming.

It's your self entitlement that's the problem.

I was in the soft play the other day and there was one girl just running around screaming at the top of her voice. It was constant and at such a high decimal 🙈. There were people visibly flinching as she ran past them. It was awful.

There's definitely normal play and and screaming. I'll never forget visiting someone who's home backed on to a pre-school, hearing an absolute cacophony of children's screams and rushing to the window because I genuinely thought some sort of emergency was unfolding on the playground. No apparently it's normal for them to all scream all the time during outdoor play.

It's not something I'm very tolerant of and mine always get told to quieten down if too noisy. I think some parents must start tuning it out.

We had this last week. A whole group playing together but just one individual amongst them seemed incapable of opening her mouth without screaming while the others just played normally. It really grated on the nerves. Some children just seem to scream and make no other sounds while playing.

The best parents don't allow their children to scream in the streets.

Screaming at 3 is very different to my neighbours kids who are still out there screaming at 11 and 12. I can imagine these 2 will still be screaming their heads off when they arrive at work 🤣

I wish I knew the answer. Similar here. Parents don’t ask the kids to stop, presumably it’s their favourite sound in the world but it isn’t mine.

We were taught only to scream if in trouble.

My old neighbours used to let their DC scream, forever hanging over the panel fencing, in a tree or on the trampoline in the back garden out of her sight, I used to tune out and stay in the house and busy myself if home.
She came round one day to have a moan that her little girl had injured herself and didn't I hear her screaming, why didn't I go get her...
Told her if I'd knocked her door everytime I heard her DC scream I may as well move in.

This is the problem when people don’t hear it for themselves. We have someone who backs onto us who has kids that scream. I don’t mean playing having fun. I mean they sound like they’re being chased by a man in a scream mask with a 10 inch knife. Constantly. For hours. And hours. And hours. Parents are indoors ignoring it.

Bloody cheek! Maybe if she supervised her own kid she’d have got there sooner.

and the odd shriek
How odd? My experience is that kids are shriekers or not. A shriek every 5 or 10 mins, that's not bad, but my experience is that those who are not told off for it do it every few seconds or so and between scream and it's unbearable. It gets my adrenaline flowing every time and it's very unpleasant.