To think "they're just kids" is a shit response to prolonged ear piercing screaming?

[BusWankers]

Daughter was in some enclosed playground, playing with a couple of kids. A parent turns up with two, who join in. Lots of happy noise.
Then the two girls start squealing, which turns into actual screaming.

I'm talking fully on screaming as though you're in mortal danger, going on for 5-10 seconds, repeatedly. It was awful, going right through me, adults around were flinching each time... my child was asking them to stop, they didn't.

So I ask the parent if they could ask them to stop the screaming, no worries having fun, being loud etc but the screaming is too much... I get a disgusted look and they reply "uhhhh, they're just kids..." Eye rolls and turns away

So I told the kids myself. (They stopped)

AIBU to think the parent could have asked them to be quiet?

I cannot understand why people think that allowing their children to scream like that is acceptable.

No screaming please. Its not play.

I totally agree. The screaming for no reason is utterly unbearable.

The pitch is what kills you. I took my son to a paddling pool and some little girls were literally walking aimlessly screaming for zero reason.

Squeals, shouts, loud laughs etc all fine.

A vast number if parents are terrible at parenting. Not telling your children to stop screaming is just one of many examples of this.

My DC are adults now, but were never allowed to scream for no reason like that. If they made too much noise in the garden on the trampoline etc then I went out once and asked them to keep it down and the next time they had to come in for a while. They learnt not to do it.

It’s totally selfish and showing no consideration for others to allow an appalling noise like that.

Of course they shouldn't be screaming

Yes I find it extremely irritating. But on a playground I would just quietly seethe rather than say anything because it’s a playground lol. (Most!) kids are expected to behave absolutely perfectly in pretty much every other situation. I can let them have this one space to be little dickheads in even if I literally want to stick pokers through my own eardrums by the end of it.
But yea… I’m very thankful to have two naturally very quiet and reserved kids who have never done this because I would lose my mind.

I live a stones throw from a pub garden, these days screaming like your legs are been cut off seems to be the norm. I absolutely hate it, roll on winter.