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HEY!! PARENTS WITH SCREAMING CHILDREN!!!

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you’re all dicks. stop that crap!! i’m home from a loooong day at work, trying to enjoy my porch with some soft tunes and a drink. but nnnnooooo! neighbors let there animals out screaming bloody murder at excruciating notes. rendering my back porch useless. don’t bullshit either. you’re tired of hearing that garbage in your house, and you’re a bad parent for not addressing the problem with discipline. screams are for emergencies only, otherwise, “boy/girl who cried wolf” comes into play. fix it. don’t intentionally expose your personal problems to neighbors just because you don’t “feel like it right now”.
 
This why I want to start an Adults Only subdivision. Or mini-city or whatever. No kids allowed.

I was enjoying some Mexican fare in the outdoor seating area of a favorite cantina of mine recently. Damn kids were screaming and carrying on to the point where I got splashed twice while they were playing in the nasty fountain. The adults involved just seemed to raise their voices to the point where they couldn’t hear their own children. Irritating.

Don’t like kids.
 
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I find some folks have no clue. One neighbor had a big party with over 100 people. No masks. They had a DJ who was awful with a very loud sound system. I could hear him inside my house over my tv. At midnight, with the party still going on i called and had the Sheriff to ask them to quiet it down. They did, no more issues
 
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My first used to raise hell in restaurants. He hated being tied down. After a while I just accepted it and let him explore around with me in tow. Once he knew he’d get is explorer time - he was cool. Kinda feel bad I didn’t figure that out sooner; who the hell wants to be tied down?
 
My first used to raise hell in restaurants. He hated being tied down. After a while I just accepted it and let him explore around with me in tow. Once he knew he’d get is explorer time - he was cool. Kinda feel bad I didn’t figure that out sooner; who the hell wants to be tied down?
it sounds like you did what you were supposed to do, fixed the issue. But is your firstborn still running around at 9 to 12 years old incessantly screaming as high-pitched as they can and as loud as they can to have fun?
 
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you’re all dicks. stop that crap!! i’m home from a loooong day at work, trying to enjoy my porch with some soft tunes and a drink. but nnnnooooo! neighbors let there animals out screaming bloody murder at excruciating notes. rendering my back porch useless. don’t bullshit either. you’re tired of hearing that garbage in your house, and you’re a bad parent for not addressing the problem with discipline. screams are for emergencies only, otherwise, “boy/girl who cried wolf” comes into play. fix it. don’t intentionally expose your personal problems to neighbors just because you don’t “feel like it right now”.
You are right, kids should just sit inside and be completely quiet and never make a peep. Be seen but not heard.
come on people they are kids!!! Now I agree there are many parents that allow kids to rule the roost and do nothing to keep them in check so to speak but kids have energy. How many times do we hear adults say they wish they could bottle it up and have some for themselves? Add in that with school some kids are expected to sit still and quiet for 7 hrs and only get a 15 min recess but yet are to stay calm the rest of the day? Then we complain of childhood obesity?
kids need to be kids. Yes respectful but still kids. My daughter goes out back to play and can be louder than when inside and a lot of times sings while outside. I look at it as a child that is happy. When she is super quiet something is wrong. As a parent I get irritated when there are nights my neighbors decide to have a cookout until midnight or later and do not respect people wanting their kids to be able to sleep, or the time my neighbors had a huge argument outside until 2AM. What about fireworks at midnight or later?
Lets quit saying kids are annoying and adults need to be able to do whatever. Let’s just all try to teach respect but encourage happiness in kids and adults. Gosh knows there needs to be some happiness somewhere right now.
 
I agree about kids maybe in there yard or whatever but public places like stores and restaurants come on...behave!! you never see them get taken out and disciplined.....and dont even get me started on pets! good lord i love pets but come on there is a time and place for them! people cannot go anywhere without them!!
 
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you’re all dicks. stop that crap!! i’m home from a loooong day at work, trying to enjoy my porch with some soft tunes and a drink. but nnnnooooo! neighbors let there animals out screaming bloody murder at excruciating notes. rendering my back porch useless. don’t bullshit either. you’re tired of hearing that garbage in your house, and you’re a bad parent for not addressing the problem with discipline. screams are for emergencies only, otherwise, “boy/girl who cried wolf” comes into play. fix it. don’t intentionally expose your personal problems to neighbors just because you don’t “feel like it right now”.
Did you never play in the yard with your friends when you were a kid? Geez. I kinda miss those days. My neighborhood is so quiet and the only time I really encounter kids is when I'm walking my dog.
 
Old neighbors used to leave their dog outside at night and it seemed to bark constantly. We couldn't ever sleep with our windows open. Glad they got evicted.
 
I have read so many posts on this board complaining how kids now just sit in front of the computers/phones/tablets/TV's and how times were so much better when kids played outside (back in the day).

Now there's complaints about kids playing outside ?

Kids rode bikes, played in the woods, explored together, built forts, treehouses, damned creeks, fished etc. We use to let our kids freely use their imagination, learn from their mistakes. Few still do and that’s why we have way to many useless kids that will unfortunately grow up into useless adults.
 
Volunteer as a youth softball coach where you have to encourage girls to be loud in the dugout... right over your shoulder. I promise you you'll learn how to tune them out and noises from the neighborhood will seem trivial.
 
you’re all dicks. stop that crap!! i’m home from a loooong day at work, trying to enjoy my porch with some soft tunes and a drink. but nnnnooooo! neighbors let there animals out screaming bloody murder at excruciating notes. rendering my back porch useless. don’t bullshit either. you’re tired of hearing that garbage in your house, and you’re a bad parent for not addressing the problem with discipline. screams are for emergencies only, otherwise, “boy/girl who cried wolf” comes into play. fix it. don’t intentionally expose your personal problems to neighbors just because you don’t “feel like it right now”.


Not telling Johnny or Sally "no" is why our now "adults" act they way they do.
 
Kids rode bikes, played in the woods, explored together, built forts, treehouses, damned creeks, fished etc. We use to let our kids freely use their imagination, learn from their mistakes. Few still do and that’s why we have way to many useless kids that will unfortunately grow up into useless adults.
Interesting hypothesis. I'm sure you have supporting documentation for this theory.
 
you’re all dicks. stop that crap!! i’m home from a loooong day at work, trying to enjoy my porch with some soft tunes and a drink. but nnnnooooo! neighbors let there animals out screaming bloody murder at excruciating notes. rendering my back porch useless. don’t bullshit either. you’re tired of hearing that garbage in your house, and you’re a bad parent for not addressing the problem with discipline. screams are for emergencies only, otherwise, “boy/girl who cried wolf” comes into play. fix it. don’t intentionally expose your personal problems to neighbors just because you don’t “feel like it right now”.
Wow! How old are you and do you have kids? I can agree that parents need to instill discipline, teach respect for authority, and be in charge. (My son is in boot camp to be a Marine). So, I know what I am saying and practice what I preach.
To me... kids are a reflection of their environment. Don’t get pissed at the kids for being kids. They should play, yell and carry on outside. Do you expect that it is appropriate for them to do so indoors? In raising our kids, my wife and I always distinguished an indoor voice from an outdoor one. We had 2 meals paid for by strangers in restaurants. One because our kids were so squirrelly that it was comical to a gentleman eating near us by himself. (they were not loud and boisterous). The second time a family near us picked up our check because of how well behaved our kids were. In turn, we
Also, I am guessing that you have gone to or watched enough sports to have yelled yourself. I base off of your rant that you may have done this a lot in your life. So, ease back on the kids.

Be a good neighbor and build a relationship with the parents or the kids to be able to compromise on some quiet time for your fragile ears.
 
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I've had the conversation a few times with my kids about the difference between yelling and screaming when they are out playing.

But they're kids. I expect them to play loudly. I just dont want neighbors thinking they're screaming in agony or something.
 
Just look forward to day when these kids grow up to demand forgiveness of their huge student debt, free health care, a government wage, and other socialist programs they are being indoctrinated to believe the are entitled too. And if they don't get what they want they will riot, destroy your property, and possibly assault you with no fear of judicial consequences. You can thank their parents for not teaching them common sense, not giving them enough positive attention, and not disciplining them.
 
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Just look forward to day when these kids grow up to demand forgiveness of their huge student debt, free health care, a government wage, and other socialist programs they are being indoctrinated to believe the are entitled too. And if they don't get what they want they will riot, destroy your property, and possibly assault you with no fear of judicial consequences. You can thank their parents for not teaching them common sense, not giving them enough positive attention, and not disciplining them.
When it comes to getting in one's wallet, the kids outside should be the least of our worries. It's the kids on the couch that will end up costing us all.
 
Also, what happened to hiring babysitters and leaving your kids at home? We have a Dinner Club that was set up for DINKs (Dual Income, No Kids) and SINKs (Single Income, No Kids). Well, over the years, some of the couples have bred and now they bring their newborns, toddlers, young kids to Dinner Club. So what used to be a pleasant evening of good food, fine wine and conversation is now "Let's gather around in the playroom and watch the kids bang on instruments and generally make as much noise as possible." Freakin' Romper Room. It's ruined Dinner Club for several of us and I don't see me going back after this COVID crap relents.

I never, ever accompanied my parents to a cocktail party or adult function as a child.
 
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No pools in your neighborhood? The kids near us are in the pool all day every day, shrieking their heads off.

There are a couple, but those families have older kids who are off to college. Rarely ever hear a racket from them.

Until about 1999, we didn't have any neighbors except cows and a couple 5-acre minifarms. Then our real farmer neighbor started selling off chunks of land around us for developers and now I'm surrounded. Luckily, most of us are older and try to be respectful of others.

To be honest, my worst neighbors are adults and 30-somethings kids who should know better. One is a covey of linebacker sized woman who run a yard care business and used to wake my wife at 3 a.m. playing cornhole to bro country turned up to 11, right next to her other is a red neck boat freak who spends most weekends testing out his pontoon boat's stereo in the driveway.
 
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