What age should children stop screaming all the time - WFH

[Cgko]

WFH 6-7 times a fortnight. Never had a hybrid job before.

Yesterday afternoon after school there were 3 girls wearing academy uniform - year 7 onwards running around and screaming.

Plus a couple of families who have around 6 kids between them spend all the school holidays if it’s dry riding bikes outside my home screaming. I say the oldest child in that group is 9.

How do ask the children not to scream all the time?

I wear a headset for telephone calls and Teams. I don’t want to wear it all the time.

Travelling to the office is 18 miles away each way and on days I don’t have an allocated parking space. Let’s just say there are 100 more staff on the books, than parking bays. Obviously about half the staff walk, use PT or cycle and probably about at most 70% of staff are working in the office. it’s £7.50 to park. Travelling on public transport is £12 each day and need to leave home an hour earlier and get home an hour later compared to driving.

Population density obviously!! More people living on top of each other compared to my (blissful) rural village where we have acres of space. You can’t be that dim surely?!

Jeez, this thread is depressing.

We got new neighbours last autumn. They’ve got a 3 year old daughter who runs around and screams a lot. Unfortunately our shared walks are way thinner than I realised (lived here for over 20 years but had a retired couple there before). I had a difficult childhood and these sounds make me feel really anxious. I was hoping that it was just a phase and she would soon grow out of it, but it seems that might be a bit optimistic

I don’t understand the relevance of the last paragraph? WFH can be super convenient. If the cons outweigh the pros for you you know what to do. Almost every group of early teens are loud at times. You were too probably? That’s the way it is.

Get some loop earplugs. But ultimately, if you're in a residential area, you'll have to accept noise from other residents. If you want office environment, go and rent a desk in a quiet space in a commercial area

It doesn’t matter what age they stop screaming because these won’t be the last ones, obviously, new (younger) children will arrive!

It was ok until the 2 families moved in around 18 months - 2 years ago. I know the house number of one of the families. Unsure about the other.

It just requires a couple of families to turn a nice street into hell

Maybe they have control of their kids but are not attempting to quieten them? Maybe they just don’t agree with you that their kids noise is unreasonable in the day time. (I’m not saying I agree or not btw but to assume these kids are ‘out of control’ is a not necessarily true)

Actually if they are screaming then they are in fact out of control and if the parents think that screaming is okay, then they are dickheads

My kids never screamed. Sure they made noise but not screaming. I know one child in my old neighbourhood who had a particular high pitched scream but they were the only one, the rest (I lived near a primary school) were just normal loud excited voices, which is part and parcel of living in a family neighbourhood.

I mentioned needing to take a pill for the racket my adult daughters make when they are here with a crowd and it automatically puts it under review🙄. You have my sympathy OP, the decibel level girls can reach is shocking.

I don't think it's automatic.

Most likely one of the night watch volunteers has hidden it.

Disclaimer: I didn't see it.

This is depressing. Kids playing can be noisy. Its normal and we all have different boundaries of personal acceptability but at the end of the day you have to suck it up. Just like we have to put up with traffic noise, sirens, tractors, and lawnmowers and other normal day to day sounds that are part of living in a community. If you require silence throughout the day then you need to move somewhere more remote.

I don't think that anyone is asking for silence. As I said, I have no problem with the normal noises of my current neighbours children playing, loud voices etc., but the screams from the previous set were a world apart.

Parents don’t tell their little brats off anymore unfortunately and seem to think the rest of us want to hear them screaming 🤷‍♀️

Are people being deliberately obtuse? Screaming is not something that should be heard unless the child is in danger. It’s a different sound from children playing.

surprised people are struggling with this idea

I wonder if people have different ideas of what screaming is. I work in a school and I wouldn't say that the children scream then even.
They are definitely noisy - shrieking, shouting, laughing, being monsters/animals/whatever imaginary thing they can think of and making weird noises but I wouldn't say screaming happens often.
On MN it seems like there are a lot of screamers out there, but I wonder whether it is an actual scream or just other noise mislabelled.

I agree. Nothing wrong at all with the sound of children laughing and shouting whilst playing. That's lovely to hear. It's the ear piercing screams that are unacceptable and as a child I would have been told off for doing that.
We have children playing in the street where I live who obviouslly make a noise, but currently we don't have any screamers thank goodness. When we've suffered from it in the past it's always been girls and it appears to be infectious.

Nice to hear of children playing out and screaming. I'm on a new estate with a park and never see a one,they'll all probably have social issues and anxiety next.

You think screaming is a good thing? Wow

Have you ever heard foxes screaming at night?
The sound that makes you wonder "is that actually a fox or is someone being murdered out there?" and you're too worried to look out the window to check.
That's what the OP means about children screaming.
It's not play noise.
It's literally a horrible sound that should only be made if someone is actually in danger.

High pitch screaming which if another octave higher, only dogs and other animals that can hear high pitch noises will hear

Our neighbours kids scream all the time. Outside, screaming. Inside, screaming. Their obnoxious parents put them outside when they scream so they can ignore them better whilst they scream the street down. Oldest is about 11, acts like they're 2.

I am convinced there was less screaming 10 years ago and it’s definitely been worse since COVID

@Cgko I’ surprised year 7s are running around screaming, thought they were now just on their phones creating TikTok content. By year 8, for sure, the screaming will stop.

Kids aged 9 have a few years to go yet though.

If you can work with music, radio or TV on in the background you could link a good set of noise cancelling earphones. Or can you move to the back of your house? I can’t hear anything (not even the traffic) from my sitting room.