Screeching kids

[Lace Neil Singer]

A couple of houses away from the block of flats where I live, is a house where two little girls live. They play in their garden a lot, and make the most horrendous noise. In other words, they make the eardrum piercing screeches of someone being murdered by an axeman. I've yelled "Shut the fuck up!" over the fence a few times, out of desperation, and they shut up straight away. I know their mother wouldn't bother to tell the kids herself to put a sock in it. Would this kind of racket count as unreasonable noise? The kids aren't much older than eight and are out til nine some nights.

I know a lot of people would say "kids will be kids" and "You were like that as a kid," but that's crap. The first is like saying "Rapists will be rapists"; and the second; well, my parents live next to neighbours, as everyone save those who live out in the sticks do, and to do that is to have respect. Making general kiddish playing noises, laughing, chattering etc is fine; however, any shrieking or bellowing, and my parents would say, "Either shut up, or come inside." If I went outside and started screaming my head off, I really doubt that I'd be automatically excused from causing a disturbance, the way a lot of people excuse children.

[DrFaroohk]

That's what's wrong with kids today I think. Everyone is like "kids will be kids" and "Well that's how X year olds act, deal with it!"


When I was a kid I had to do as I was told. No one gave a crap about my age, or that I was a kid. That's just how it was. You do what you're told and behave a certain way because you are told. There's a sense of "do what you have to" that's been bred out of kids with "understanding" and "patience".

[Lace Neil Singer]

The problem with that method is that it's breeding the selfish and rude adults that we keep encountering while at work. -.- After all, if little Susie learns that screaming and shouting will get her her own way as a toddler, she'll do exactly the same at the customer services desk in twenty years time.

[Flyndaran]

That's what's wrong with kids today I think. Everyone is like "kids will be kids" and "Well that's how X year olds act, deal with it!"
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Careful.. you just a year or two short of screaming at those whippersnappers to get off your lawn.
Everyone thinks they are living in a trying times and kids today are getting more unruly.

[protege]

Careful.. you just a year or two short of screaming at those whippersnappers to get off your lawn.

Ugh. One of my parents' former neighbors was like that. However, he wouldn't just bitch if people walked on his grass. Nope, he'd actually tell children in *other* yards to "quiet down."

I mean, there were several times I'd be playing in my own yard...either with toy trucks, or on the swing set. He'd actually come over and bitch because the swing chains were squeaking "too loud" Or, we'd be playing football or soccer, and he'd bitch when the ball hit the fence. In fact, my mother actually told him to "get bent," when he complained about the noise from my birthday party one year. Seems he didn't like to see children having a good time. Needless to say, nobody shed a tear when that old bastard died.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I will clarify that I don't give a damn about normal child playing noises; however, I draw the line at ear drum piercing screeching which is probably loud enough to shatter glass and serves no purpose at all save to annoy. If your kids are doing that in the garden, then you as a parent should tell them to shut up cuz it disturbs the neighbours and is antisocial. Just as it would be if I were playing Metallica at full blast outside at midnight.

[MystyGlyttyr]

First of all, Knuckles was always my favorite. He could kick Sonic's ass in a heartbeat if he ever really decided to.

Second, living down the road from my triplet nieces, those girls are SCREAMERS. They love to run and shriek and roll and flop and all kinds of noisy stuff. However...our houses are a mile apart from the nearest neighbors, in the middle of the woods. And the girls have been taught that what they do at home is one thing, what they do in public or at other houses is another. And once in a while they will forget and scream over something, a quick "We don't do that here" is all it takes to get them quiet again. And they're only three. Admittedly, very smart for three, but still only three. So barring autism, ADD, etc., or something of that nature, it's not impossible to let kids be kids, but at a slightly more controlled volume. I've got no patience with it either.

My absolute least favorite is being in Wal-Mart and you can measure where a person is at any given point because their child SHRIEKS at regular intervals the entire time. Not necessarily a baby, on the occasions where I forget myself and start thinking "Surely that child must be dying, I'd better go investigate" I always find out the culprit is some kid who looks old enough to be doing long division and their parents are ignoring them in favor of turning over a copy of World of Warcraft over and over. Thankfully I just bought new headphones that have a knob to crank the music even louder...

[Nyoibo]

Screaming or shreiking kinds I cannot stand, but lately I've been finding it adorable when I hear babies making those squeals and sqeaks, you know the ones they do when they're discovering that they can make noises and they're testing what they can do... I may have a problem here...

[Lace Neil Singer]

I read true crime and often when the police are investigating a murder, they ask people if they heard screams at certain times. Well, at certain times here, there'd be so many screams from the two kids down the road, that they'd drown out any others. -.-

Slight improvement; apparently one of my neighbours caught Mum From Hell outside the house and told her to shut her kids up or he'd call the police; his wife works nights and can't sleep all day cuz of it. Since then, they have been marginally better; I'm just hoping it lasts.

[protege]

Here's one for you... what about *parents* who are constantly screaming at each other?

I once lived next door to a family where both parents were alcoholics. There was literally constant noise from that place. They'd be up at all hours screaming at each other, beating the kids, throwing things (usually dishes), etc. After several years of that, eventually everyone just "tuned them out."

Last straw came not long before they moved. Seems that the husband was drunk and attempting to fix the garage door. I don't recall what he did, but the door somehow fell, and pinned him against the floor

What really pissed everyone off, is that his wife got upset...because we all ignored his calls for help! Actually, we didn't ignore them. We all thought "Jack and Diane are at it again, like they are every night" and went about our business.

Don't want similar reactions? Shut the fuck up then.