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What age should children stop screaming all the time - WFH

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Cgko · 21/03/2026 18:22

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.

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ERthree · 23/03/2026 22:33

superchick · 23/03/2026 08:24

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.

It has nothing to do with children playing and making a noise and everything to do with them screaming, just opening their mouths and letting out ear splitting screams.

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