WTF: Why must little kids scream incessantly?

My kids, along with most of the kids in the neighborhood that they grew up with, are grown now and our neighborhood got pretty quiet. In the last year or so a few houses have turned over and now that it has finally warmed up a bit, there are sounds of children playing again. I kind of like it and didn't realize it was missing until it came back.

I am not condoning the incessant screaming thing though, that is pretty annoying and seems to be a thing girls do way more than boys. I had more than one talk with my daughter about that when she was a young'n.
 
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Save the anger for when it counts. Some day, the screaming will be replaced by a chest rumbling 3000 watt car audio system with multiple sub woofers.

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mystixboi1 said:
I was reading this thread while eating breakfast this morning. As I was reading, I felt the tug on my leg. It was my almost 16 month old son holding up a plastic flower trying to give it to me he had a smile on his face.

As I took the flower from him, he ran away with a high-pitched screech. It was one the best sounds are heard all morning. He was laughing and that's probably one of the best things I could ever ask to hear.

Little kids, especially the ones his age, can't communicate more than a few hand gestures that we've taught him and a few words. He screams in a high-pitched all the time. It's to show his excitement. That's all he can do at this point. And that's okay with me.

I actually agree with most of the coralong says... Except for calling people Nazis!!! Hearing little kids laugh, play and even scream is one of the best sounds ever.

We go to playgrounds, I hear little kids screaming the entire time. I love it. It shows that they are all excited and are having a great time. That being said, there's a time and place for everything. Whenever we go to a restaurant, if he starts acting up, we immediately apologize to those around us and have even left restaurants before we got our meals. I can't stand to see when the kid is running around the room and screaming while the parent does nothing. That is the worst kind of parenting. There's a saying "instead of saying kids will be kids, it's just that you're an asshole parent."
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^ This :thu:
 
You know what's like nails on a chalkboard for me? Jimmy fucking buffet. As a father to two well-behaved young girls, let me tell you that when more than one of them get together to play, they tend to get screechy. The implications of violence used as corrective action for girls, six-year-old girls, essentially doing what comes natural to them, it's frankly sickening.

Maybe if your father had taught you that politeness comes from a kindness to others rather than from the fear of getting smacked around, you wouldn't be such a bitter man. Those little girls will grow out of being screechy. You're just going to get older and bitterer, and probably never grow out of liking Jimmy Buffett. That's sad.
 
Some classic Bill Cosby...

My parents never smiled... because I had brain damage. My wife and I don't smile because our children are LOADED with it. Oh, my parents smile now, whenever they come over to the house and see how much trouble I'm having. Oh, they have a ball! "Havin' a li'l trouble, huh, son?"
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A person with no children says, "Well I just love children," and you say "Why?" and they say, "Because a child is so truthful, that's what I love about 'em - they tell the truth." That's a lie, I've got five of 'em. The only time they tell the truth is if they're having pain.
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Kerouac said:
Children are awful, but so are the majority of people. Assholes raise asshole kids.
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There is certainly some truth to what you say. The funny thing about kids and parents is that they aren't always directly associated in that way, however. Take a family that has 3 or 4 kids, all raised the same way. As they age you see vastly different directions in their personalities. Some become great, caring and productive people while some end up in prison. All from the exact same household and genetic pool.
 
Jbird said:
Normally I'd tend to agree, but a couple summers ago my hot next door neighbor (married, btw) had some young boy over for most of the summer. I think it was somebody's kid from the church that they attend.

Anyways….this kid would scream bloody murder at the top of his lungs while just playing around. I swear, the first time he did it, I seriously though one of the kids playing next door had done some grievous bodily harm, so I dropped what I was doing and rushed outside, dreading what I would find. Only to see that the kids were just merrily playing around.

Thing is, he screamed that way ALL SUMMER…. and I work 3rd shift. It took all my self control not to go over there and say something :embarrassed:

Last summer, he was over next door sometimes, yelled a bit, but nothing like the blood-curdling screams from the previous summer.
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Again, folks, I understand what the OP was getting at, and Jay's post above is what *I'm* referring to - NOT the occasional shriek of joy, or a squeal, or happy little kids playing and whooping and hollering. It's the BLOOD-CURDLING SCREAMING as if they are being repeatedly stabbed that when it goes unchecked gets on my effing nerves.

Yes, there is no real reason to threaten violence, but if the parents just intervene early enough without taking a hand to the child, things tend to not be allowed to get out of hand later.
 
Ugh. This thread is making me consider a hiatus. Way too personal, way too GJ.

As one who mistakenly engaged in forum drama in the past, I see how ugly it is. It's not what I come here for.

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Steverino said:
This is weird I know, but yesterday evening as my granddaughter was running around screaming in the highest pitch I've ever heard from human vocal cords, I grabbed my iphone which has a frequency counter app.

Her little voice box hit 2.5KHz.
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My niece can do a pretty decent Sebastian Bach impersonation.

My boy, on the other hand, is FOUR and has been doing a Nathan Explosion-esque death metal growl for two years.

Daddy is proud.

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Kids are going to scream. It's what they do. However, parents need to teach them to be respectful of others.

Sometimes my little man screams his head off. Other times he's quiet because he knows his limits. When he forgets we remind him, like when he's at my parents' place and their landlord, a shrink, is in his office below the living room.

When he's not bothering anybody he can scream his head off and we're fine with that.

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May I add one last thing;

We're all either musicians or musically inclined in some way, and as such can have rather exceptional or more acute hearing than the average person. That makes us just a bit more sensitive to things like this. It's not our fault, it's not the kids' fault. It's just life and posting the way we feel about it here, one way or the another is just that, posting. Nothing more.
 
Our son as baby would have night terrors and my wife and I would wake up trying to soothe him. We found that the opening to Lion King always calmed him down and the world was back in order.

Outside of that, never really had to deal with the screaming kid syndrome - maybe we were lucky. When lung displacement happened, it was always at a friends house or the park with friends where they could act like banshee's and go crazy. FWIW, kids will be kids and the love to yell and scream. We adults only do it at sporting events, rock concerts and heavy duty quarreling. In an outside kind of way, I welcome the screams as long as it is outside. The kids are having fun and playing rather than remaining isolated in a room and not having any social interaction.
 
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