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I have just recently discovered this forum and boy am I loving it...its like a confessional for CF's by choice. Since I have joined every hitherto emotion which I now realised I repressed is coming to the fore so I aplogise beforehand if all my initial postings are rant like...well here goes another one... Why do children have to be so noisy, I mean they are only little,I chose my current abode very carefully bearing in mind my CF issues and I deliberately chose an area populated by the older generation...thus lessening the chance of lots of screaming kids...well that was wrong, yeh it has worked for the last 15 years, but now these older people have either sadly died or moved into flats and have been replaced by young people who are now all having little people, now I know kids have to play, heck I was one myself...but cant they just lower the noise level. I now realise I should have done it the other way round as 15 years ago I would have been more tolerable,the kids would have flown the nest/college etc but now being 15 years older I am more cranky and also resentful that my once pleasant bird song garden is now forced into playing host for another very unpleasant and unrelaxing tune!!!

I always wondered the same thing, but I was myself an only child and I always played quietly. Even at age of three I remember not liking to hear the sound of children screaming and I felt like I couldn't relate. I still had fun and laughed and played pretend, just without all the noise. I think it's something that comes from kids in large packs. I feel your pain too, because my neighbors opened a day care in their home a few years ago. Just when I begin opening my door to hear the birds and enjoy the sunshine in the springtime they all pile out onto the back deck and commence screaming their heads off.

I agree. I don't think parents do much to lower their kids voices these days. My next door neighbors are an old, quiet couple who spend most of their time at home. I feel sorry for them because the people next door to them have a bunch of kids that are always screaming, jumping on their trampoline, throwing the ball into the older couples' yard, hitting their car and window with balls and toys. They've complained to the parents but they do nothing to control their kids. In fact, they complain to the rest of us that the old couple are a pain in the... It's sad. We've all voiced our concern about the extreme loudness of these kids but the parents only act offended and think there is something wrong with us!

Even though I'm a parent - I absolutely must agree. If there is one thing that truly gets on my nerves are parents that are unable to control the volume (or control their kids - period).

I went to a restaurant earlier today with my 18 year old daughter and two women behind us had a child that looked to be about 5. Not ONLY was the child really loud, but the women seemed to want to match the noise level.

It was horrible, especially when the mother got on the phone with the child's grandmother. I guess she thought it was cute to loudly repeat everything the grandmother said to the child.

If I couldn't control my kids the last place they would be is a public place. I hope that you don't think all parents are accepting of unruly kids, because we're not.

Oh no Dianne, that's why it's so annoying to see they parents who ARE accepting of bad behavior; because we know it's possible not to be that way. I think there is a new cultural misunderstanding among some people which is basically that to be as loud as possible is to attract attention to one's self which somehow demonstrates popularity and success. If you have the loudest kids, they get noticed the most. If you talk the loudest on your cell phone then people will know how important you are.