When you have it somewhere other people can hear it, you train it to be quiet!
I am so sick of people in my block keeping their barking dogs outside all day, and letting their kids run around in the yard we all share, screaming, for 8 hours.
I tell you, that behaviour would NOT fly in the household I grew up in. My mother even went and grabbed a few neighbourhood kids a few times to tell them to quit the fekkin screaming because other people live in the area too.
That’s why I live with my family.
Kids make noise. They just do. It is good for them. As long as they respect quiet hours, they really are allowed to scream all day long. I did as a kid, and so does my kid now. It helps their growth and development. If they break quiet hours, talk to their parents, but during the day if you want quiet you just have to wear ear plugs.
I don’t mind that kids make some noise, and I know they can’t always help being loud.
What I do mind is the parents standing in the yard, watching them while they SCREAM, and not telling them to mind their surroundings.
It’s the screaming I hate
Kids scream. Literally all day long. If a parent yelled at a kid for screaming, there would just be twice the number of people yelling. Kids do not stay quiet for longer than 2 minutes even after being told to be quiet. They don’t have the attention span for it. We just let Starlet scream his head off between the hours of 10 AM and 9 PM because no power in the verse can make him shut up. And during quiet hours, if he still needs to scream we just send him to the basement.
No. Kids don’t scream from the moment they get up until they go to bed. That behaviour is not acceptable. And as someone who is going to have a child of my own, I would not let them get away with that.
Not 100% of the time, no. But when they are playing outdoors they tend to use their outdoor voices.
My neighbors across the street have young kids and I’m constantly annoyed when they’re playing outside.
It’s obnoxious, but I realize they’re kids and need to have fun.
When they were real loud, I thought about talking to the parents,
But I don’t want to start drama with people that live so close to me.
Gods know,
We’re not perfect either.
I think your best solution is noise canceling headphones or something like that.
My next door neighbors have 8 kids. Mostly little kids and they have a pool and a trampoline. They are still outside playing when I go to bed. They have a basketball goal in the driveway. The girls are always playing basketball and the little boys are always on the trampoline. Kind of backwards.
The worst is when I’m going to sleep and I hear a baby crying or waking up hearing a baby crying cos those noises trigger my anxiety about hallucinations, those were the peak times for noises to be turned into voices.
It’s so good to hear playgrounds full of noisy kids again. The playgrounds were taped off with yellow and black tape for months and looked like someone had committed homicides in them. Kids screaming their heads off is how it should be in the summer.
I think it is also important to keep in mind that many kids have disabilities that make it very difficult for them to regulate their volume. Autism and adhd both make it harder for a kid to keep quiet. Sensory processing issues can be quite painful for children, and producing sensory output helps cancel out the sensory input. Screaming is one of the least destructive ways for a kid to do that. Other, less healthy ways include punching themselves directly in the face, biting themselves, slapping people, pinching themselves, and other forms of aggression/self harm. A kid with sensory issues who screams is really doing a fantastic job of regulating themselves in a healthy, nondestructive manner.
I had a dream the other day that I was severely autistic and in the dream, not necessarily in real life for autistics idk, the noises I was making was actually me trying to communicate verbally but being unable to and it coming out as distressing noises instead 
it was quite a sad dream.
I’m sorry, but I don’t believe for a second that a group of 7 9-year olds are mentally incapable of regulating their outside voices.
When I was that age, my mother had long ago, by reminding me several times, taught me not to scream outside.
She’d tell me people would get annoyed and/or scared I was being hurt, and after a while, it sunk in.
Normal kids are not incapable of learning to regulate themselves if you remind them enough times of what needs regulating.
It’s a parent’s job to teach the kids to mind their surroundings, or do what my mother did.
"Your scremaing is bothering everyone, if you can’t be mindful when you’re outside, you’re coming back in the house’
I didn’t scream as a child. I was pretty shy though.
Dogs are more annoying to me, especially when the owners just put them out and let them sit out there barking 24/7. It’s the most annoying thing in the world, especially as someone who goes out to smoke cigarettes. The moment a neighbor dog notices me, it’s BARK BARK GROWL BARK, which I assume means “get away from my yard get away from my yard get away from my yard!” What the dogs fail to realize is that I’m not actually on their property.
We had neighbors once who left their dogs out on their deck for 8 hours a day. There was always feces on the deck because of it and constant barking. They make devices you can buy that respond to barks by emitting high-frequency dog whistle sounds to stop them. I haven’t ever tried one because I’m afraid it might hurt the dog’s ears.
Barking dogs are so annoying.
if people don’t want to take the time to properly train and/or stimulate them so they don’t bark, they shouldn’t have them.
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