Do kids scream more now?

[TigerVols]

My home overlooks a park and a children's playground is about 200 yards away from my home office desk, where I've sat to work off-and-on for a dozen years. Recently, though, during the day it's gotten to sound like a Chuck E. Cheese greatest hits album: kids screaming at the top of their lungs. I mean, there's not a day goes by that I don't look up to make sure some child is not laying in a crumbled heap at the bottom of the slide, holding a compound fracture (in 12 years, I've called the ambulance but once). Sure, children have always yelled the occasional "mommy, mommy, mommy" in order to show off some fancy flip on the jungle gym. But nowadays it's just non-stop guttural wailing, and it looks from afar as for no reason, punctuated every now and again by the bloody-murder screams.

Am I just becoming a grumpy old man? Is this an indication of the increase in autism in the past decade? Or is something else going on?

 

[LongTimeListener]

My vote:

 

[Buck]

Have the demographics around the park changed?
If there are more young families in the neighborhood, there could be more children and younger children using the park regularly.

 

[Dyno]

I've noticed it and so has my mom, a retired elementary school teacher, who spent many a day supervising recess, field days, class trips, etc.

 

[Riptide]

Kids scream a lot everywhere now. Check out Walmart.

 

[93Devil]

My home overlooks a park and a children's playground is about 200 yards away from my home office desk, where I've sat to work off-and-on for a dozen years. Recently, though, during the day it's gotten to sound like a Chuck E. Cheese greatest hits album: kids screaming at the top of their lungs. I mean, there's not a day goes by that I don't look up to make sure some child is not laying in a crumbled heap at the bottom of the slide, holding a compound fracture (in 12 years, I've called the ambulance but once). Sure, children have always yelled the occasional "mommy, mommy, mommy" in order to show off some fancy flip on the jungle gym. But nowadays it's just non-stop guttural wailing, and it looks from afar as for no reason, punctuated every now and again by the bloody-murder screams.

Am I just becoming a grumpy old man? Is this an indication of the increase in autism in the past decade? Or is something else going on?

It's either soccer or steriods. Take your pick.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

My home overlooks a park and a children's playground is about 200 yards away from my home office desk, where I've sat to work off-and-on for a dozen years. Recently, though, during the day it's gotten to sound like a Chuck E. Cheese greatest hits album: kids screaming at the top of their lungs. I mean, there's not a day goes by that I don't look up to make sure some child is not laying in a crumbled heap at the bottom of the slide, holding a compound fracture (in 12 years, I've called the ambulance but once). Sure, children have always yelled the occasional "mommy, mommy, mommy" in order to show off some fancy flip on the jungle gym. But nowadays it's just non-stop guttural wailing, and it looks from afar as for no reason, punctuated every now and again by the bloody-murder screams.

Am I just becoming a grumpy old man? Is this an indication of the increase in autism in the past decade? Or is something else going on?

I think it's from the influx of ****ty parenting that we've seen in the last decade ore so. You see a lot of parents who are incapable of, or unwilling to, tell their kids to keep quiet.

I was in the grocery store a couple weeks ago and a kid who was old enough to know better, screamed at the top of his lungs. I dropped the can I was holding and people actually sprinted over to the kid to see if everything was OK. His mom just kind of laughed nervously and walked off... To be fair, I understand not disciplining your kids in public places, but I seriously doubt this mother said anything to her kid.

 

[LongTimeListener]

She probably let him suck on her boob in the car.

 

[Bradley Guire]

The older I get, the more everything on this planet irritates me. I'm embracing becoming a grumpy old man.

 

[Brian]

I think they should be quiet and stay glued to a television or IPad screen.

****ing kids using their outside voices....er...uh...outside.

 

[Bradley Guire]

If mothers breastfed their children longer into childhood, we wouldn't hear them scream as much.

 

[93Devil]

Honestly, it is a playground. Brian touched on it, but they are playing outside. Let them yell.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I'll bet children of Republicans scream more, and louder. [/starman]

They're not as loud as the voices in his head or the people he keeps in that pit in his basement.

 

[LongTimeListener]

I'll bet children of Republicans scream more, and louder. [/starman]

They still do not use The Word, however.