Screaming kids and no parenting

[GeorginaBell]

Why do so many kids these days scream when playing (I don’t mean the odd excited scream I mean persistent like they’re wing attacked but not) and absolutely no parent can be bothered to even say sweetheart play but don’t scream like that? Where is the care or decency and respect for neighbours anymore? We have a park litt30 seconds away and not one parent near us can be bothered to take them yet plenty of others passing do. Then when we politely ask them to just not scream the parents get rough and act as if we are in the wrong?! Fair enough if it’s in their own house but outside ours for 5 hours straight shouting and screaming. Is this how trashy people ha bc e now become?!

No, screaming. Actual screaming. The kind of screaming which sometimes makes you stop and listen to double check that it is still sort of the play and hasn't tipped into some kind of sustained assault.

I know exactly what OP means. It's a phenomenon where I currently live, too. Not playing, laughing and exuberance, which are lovely noises to hear. Screaming.

I've relocated twice in my life so I'm not sure if it's regional, demographic or manners that make the difference but it is a sound that gets grating.

DD (23) was saying to me last weekend that if a child ever actually was attacked, nobody would react. You have to screen the sound out.

It doesn't bother me. Shrieking and laughing around a paddling pool seems normal to me. I'd hate to hush them. They are in school all week. They're just letting off steam.

Shrieking and laughing is normal. Don't even think about that. The screaming is something quite different. You're lucky if you haven't heard it.

You're wrong. I live next to a primary school and there are kids who will spend their whole outside play time screaming.

Not shrieking or yelling - full on blood curdling screaming from the throat like they're auditioning for a Hitchcock horror movie. As long as they can go until they run out of breath, and over and over again. It's usually girls playing hiding/chasing games.

I honestly don't know how they don't lose their voices. If a kid of mine ever behaved like that when they were young they would have been pulled out of play for a time out sitting with me, pronto. Every time until they learned.

Yes but how many kids are there at the primary s to share all that screaming between? Probably 100 x more than your next door neighbour

Or they could have hearing issues. That’s in response to the adults talking loud comment.

I genuinely don't know what you mean. I've never heard this sustained bloodcurdling screaming before. Not even sure how it could be sustained.

Thing is I have 4 kids and live near a school. Still have no idea what you're talking about.

My toddler twins scream at each other... mostly in the car, but they have done it in the garden once or twice. i hate it but they think its hilarious and we've not had much luck putting a stop to it. Our closest neighbours have children and dogs so hopefully don't mind too much, and I hope they stop soon!!!

The rule my grandma had my mum and her siblings was no screeching / screaming or you go inside. Ditto my mum with me and my siblings. It’s really not that difficult

I’m so envious! Free tip: don’t move to one of the roads, near the tube in South Ealing. A family there has 3 screamers. Totally infuriating. Glad l moved

Well yes this is the logical way to handle it. Set out the no screaming rule in advance, and make it clear they won’t be able to carry on playing if they scream.