How do you feel about kids screaming?

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My neighbours 4 kids were screaming for about an hour straight, no lie. At one point the one kid kept screaming the same thing over and over and over again, actually doing my head in. Not even the tv, washing machine or kettle could muffle it.
Thankfully at one point the other neighbours screamed for them to shut up and it’s gone dead quiet now…
Are parents really just letting their kids scream like so for hours on end? As this isn’t the first time. These 4 kids are around 8-14 years old.

HawkPerception · Accepted Answer

Man parents do not discipline their kids nowadays. It's such a sad state of society. Bunch of entitled, spoiled, obnoxious kids running around owning the place putting their phones on record and thinking they're invincible.

And everyone's argument is that spanking your kids is traumatic. Give me a damn break. We're not talking about abuse. We're talking about spanking when they act like like in your example. No one's getting traumatized from being disciplined. I'm sick of how soft society is getting. Kids need to learn social tact.

LiamS95 · Accepted Answer

Time to pour yourself a relaxing drink and put the noise cancelling headphones on and watch a good movie.

Cutegirl06 · Answer

I'd be more concerned with why they were screaming. Were they being beat?

Billlewis · Answer

It doesn't exactly make my day... lol

FunkyMonkee · Answer

Kids will be kids and they should be allowed to BE kids while they have the chance BUT, some parents think that all they had to do was spit them out and feed & clothe them! The rest of the time, they have no kids!! When they visit someone else, those people automatically become their baby sitters! They could wring each others' necks and their parents couldn't give a flying fuck about it and it usually ends up being the host/ess of the gathering that gets to deal with the other peoples' ankle biters!!
Just be glad they're not in a pool playing, "Marco Polo"!! The MOST ANNOYING game ANYONE has EVER come up with!! This is one of the reasons I MUCH prefer to play secret underwater I T. If you're it, you can only tag someone underwater so, only the person that's it knows they're it. When you tag them, you tell them quietly! And, if you actually say, "it" instead of spelling it, I T, you're automatically it. Even more fun to play at night when you could be right next to someone underwater and they'd never know it, unless lights were on.

RebelinSteel · Answer

I’m lucky in that I don’t have any close neighbours, however I’ve stayed at a friends house and experienced this, they would let their kids run riot and if told off would let the kid sit and scream or make some awful racket, nightmare and it was last time I stopped there. One of the worst was a 12 hour flight, where a woman’s baby screamed / cried for about 6 hours constantly, they even had a nurse on the flight check her out. I had left my Noise cancelling headphones at home so i was 😵‍💫 by time we landed.

TommyMountainFigure · Answer

Let's just say I have the equipment from my old DJ days in one of the upstairs rooms. When neighbours make loads of nose (or kids screaming etc) On goes my DJ set. So loud you can see the windows move from the bass!

Viola' no more outside noise!

midnightmoon05 · Answer

That doesn’t sound normal in my world. Some others … probably.
it’s sad…I love kids and have been teaching primary age group till 10yr olds…children are so amazing and I hate how some are being treated!! It really upsets me.
that just tells me the parents are not well to treat kids that way.
what can you do? I am not sure. 😞

AviatorTom · Answer

My then-wife and I raised 3 kids. Sometimes, kids scream, especially when they are young and don't have the vocabulary yet to make their point known. But screaming should not last more than a few minutes.

Maybe we were fortunate, or maybe we got parenting right, but our kids rarely screamed, partly because they knew there was punishment (time out, go to your room, no TV or video games, etc.). The key to punishment is never physical, and make it different each time, so they don't know in advance how severe it will be.

Kids who scream for hours on end... it's the parents' fault... for not realizing why the kids are screaming and take care of that.

ClaircognizantEmpath · Answer

hey do you have a version of a childs services? to me this sounds like child neglect at the very least these children are exposing their upset vocally loudly, now they are telling you and anyone that can hear where we live isn't right... report it wherever you can for their sake please do it, pass this on... that child repeating for an hour imagine his mental distress, he could have adhd who knows, but the parents are not dealing with it, this will give you some peace of mind.. those children imagine them later as adults recalling their childhood in the conditions you are aware of.. and also by reporting it, an investigation could lead to assistance they need xx

Crimsyjo · Answer

HATE IT!!! WANNA SLAP THE ANNOYING BRATS

And I'm a mother lol

Sorry. You know we all thinking it!

My kids are quiet. They even hate other kids being too noisy. My neighbour was extremely lucky living next to us! And I'd always check in asking her if there was anything bothering her. Cos kids can be loud in other ways too. Banging things on walls etc.

You gotta respect other people living around you!

NathanDavis · Answer

not really a problem... I am used to it

I lived at a crowded street, went to crowded schools... been a tutor, a coach, had a million cousins, babysit a few babies, toddlers, kiddos...

not saying it's not annoying, I just don't let it get to me... also, something a good great pair of headphones would help substantially

DontAskMePeople · Answer

Haha, its hard... We currently have a 18month old and a 3 week old so there's not much quiet time at all here.

Luckily we live in a holiday area and both side neighbours are holiday houses and only here a few times a year.

It definitely gets frustrating at times when they won't settle but also you have to realise that it's not good to always give in to screaming fits or they develop temper tantrums

dustybiker2 · Answer

The defense people will put up for obnoxious behaviors is baffling. Back in my day if my friends screamed neighbors would come out and ask what was wrong.
Kid "Just felt like a yell."
Neighbor "Don't do that again. I thought you were dying."
And the kid would apologize.
These days the police defend obnoxious kids.

Valdemort · Answer

Depending on the situation. It usually makes me feel bad for the kid cause they often haven't found a way to communicate their needs in a manner that's understood or listened to.
There's some that'll do it to get attention, but I guess that mainly to do with how the behaviour is reenforced.
Do I like hearing it? No thank you.

coxoabean · Answer

It's really unpleasant. I knew a kid who would literally scream and fake cry so much. He would hurt other kids and if you nicely told him to stop he'd even start his little fake scream cry. It drove me crazy haha but I would just walk away.

andreasderjuengere · Answer

The neighbours' grandson is on like this.

I made him scared of me. So now his screaming is a little muffled - because he doesn't dare to do it close to my own home :D

Next step is to make the neighbour granddad scared of me as well. He is the same kind of idiot.

DryGermanGuy · Answer

The absolute pest, I had this with one extremely loud child, I can’t even imagine that times four! 😖😵🤬

Apple1996 · Answer

Doesn't bother me. I have 5 kids of mine own and live on a street with over 100 kids. The neighborhood kids are wild especially the older ones. I had to break up a fight with 12 years olds the other day lol

GeminiDiamond · Answer

My 5 year old daughter was well behaved growing up. Then she turned 4 and has been screaming ever since. Doesn't bother me. I will stop her if too much. Weird, but if other kids scream I cringe and get annoyed

Sonorous · Answer

I have a hearing condition called "hyperacusis" where I find major discomfort from hearing even a simple sink faucet turning on, so screaming definitely will cause me a lot of pain.

Emmytexrex · Answer

Lol they are just kids that's what they do don't tell me when you were about there age you didn't scream like that but one thing I love myself is I don't take that nonsense scream yell at them to stop and they stop

laly520 · Answer

used to it but sometimes it gets too much causing a headache

TheRealPepperPotts · Answer

My three-year-old would probably ask me what was wrong with those kids. :D

exitseven · Answer

My daughter used to scram so loud I was afraid she would shatter glass. We used to just let her scream and she would get tired.

HaleyWalker · Answer

I don't know yet I am going to be a junior counselor for the YMCA this summer. I shall find out how I feel about it pretty quick I imagine, lol.

purplepoppy · Answer

Bad parenting, they'll grow up to be screaming Karens.

lightbulb27 · Answer

Call police. But its good as trains you to think before playing w biy and making more screaming kids.

paledreams · Answer

Close proximity between neighbours? The old days there'd be backyards and space between wall 🧱 aka fences, properties sizes

Anonymous · Answer

i think the parent is an idiot and failed at parenting. nothing about the kid.

YourExLover69 · Answer

I find that disturbing, irritating and annoying. Whenever I travel in vans or buses the kids crying there makes me disturb 😔

impalabill77 · Answer

I hate it. I would call the police if they were screaming for that long.

Sasquach · Answer

Not a fan, it's a bad look as a parent and it's unpleasant to be around.

Anonymous · Answer

LMAO!!! That’s funny I guess yell shut up. But you would make a wonderful wife and mom some day…. I’ll say that

ICanSmellTheCosmos · Answer

I have sensitive ears, and kids screaming is like nails on a chalkboard to me.

dragoblack · Answer

Like hearing metal grind. Gets on my nerves heavily.

PBandJ_Nerd · Answer

I don't like it, same with kids crying.

SotiCoto · Answer

Unfortunately there isn't much you can legally do about it... besides report them to the police, I guess.

LostSouls_ · Answer

Hate it deeply. I just turn the music up louder

bonoaplimapp · Answer

Kids will scream but it’s not normal for it to be that much. Most likely a problem with the parents. Not enough attention, parents are yellers too, etc.

Alice18 · Answer

Oh shit, I hate it so much

Awesomesauce2005 · Answer

I like it when children are silent. Deathly silent.

CubaPirate · Answer

Nearly as annoying as the continual barking of next doors dogs

normalice · Answer

Depends on why they are screaming, I suppose.

slatyb · Answer

Sounds like an abusive home. Very sad.

Agape93 · Answer

Drop them until they stop

woahhh152 · Answer

It's annoying if it's a lot

Geo1970 · Answer

It drives me absolutely ballistic!

Jay0102 · Answer

It stems from bad parenting

Imsmurter1 · Answer

I might call the police no lie.

MrDaveAPSI · Answer

It's one of the reasons I don't want kids

jahaims · Answer

It's normal for kids to scream

MasterKS · Answer

its totally fuck me off! LOL

negrl4a69 · Answer

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