But like, why do children feel the need to scream like they’re being murdered all the time?
Hmmm. Maybe it’s all the kids you’re murdering? Have you tried murdering fewer kids? Real easy way to get some quiet time, in my experience.
My daughter has this absolutely blood curdling scream. And and always has, back to the beginning. I hear static in my ears if she’s close enough when she does it. And so yeah, I’ve had to tell her nobody wants to hear that outside, because it’s true.
I had to teach my daughter not to scream when we’re in public because I’m a large intimidating looking guy and people will think I’m trying to kidnap her
I don’t have that problem, thank you very much.
But funnily enough, I told my daughter the only time that scream is appropriate is if someone was to nab her. I also tell my kids there’s no way someone wouldn’t just come and give them back when they realized the kids they just kidnapped. They can really be monsters sometimes.
If only my neighbors were this strict with their kids. It’s like Lord of the Flies where I live. Hell, the parents are often yelling louder than the kids.
Got it, go somewhere away from the house unsupervised. It’s what we did in the 80s!
Depends where you’re at I suppose. Where I’m at in the PNW I see kids wandering out unsupervised all the time. Much more so than I did in Texas. Here I see kids taking the bus and walking about. It seems pretty normal.
In the 80s people didn’t randomly call child “protective” services if they saw an unattended kid, it was just tuesday.
We still did that in the late 90s even. I would love to know when and how the mentality changed, as far as I know crime rates have gone down since we were kids.
It’s mostly car centric society paving over every third space imaginable and destroying the walkability of our neighborhoods. We built an outside that is dangerous to be a child in with nowhere for them to go.
The town I grew up in has far more parks and walkable spaces today than it did in the 90s…
Just because that may be the case for your one locality it is not the case for the wider society at large. The disappearance of third spaces and the prevalent lack of walkability is a major social issue throughout the majority of the US.
NotJustBikes has many videos explaining this in detail.
That’s good! Your town is defying the trend. If more towns do, the trend reverses.
Could be that child abductions have gone down because they aren’t free for the picking down every street. Sounds like van pedo heaven.
I remember how free it was, though, being a kid in the 80s. I don’t know where the balance is.
As a former 90s kid, it changed when I grew up and realized how much danger I was in and how many close calls I ignored. Then I saw the crime and disappearances rates back then, significantly higher than now. I got into true crime and saw what happened to the kids that weren’t as lucky as me. As a result, my kids never leave my sight, without being overbearing of course.
“True Crime” isn’t real. It’s based on reality, but everything is turned up to 11. I honestly think it’s one of the larger media issues today. People, like you, watch it and think everyone is a threat. Fuck that. You need to be a little careful, but most people are normal people who want to help each other. If true crime were accurate, it’d show you that most of these abductions are by people you’re friends with or family, not a stranger. Stop being so scared. You’re hurting their development.
As a result, my kids never leave my sight, without being overbearing of course.
As every overbearing parent has said. No one thinks they’re the overbearing parent.
I said I watched it, I no longer do. There are too many problematic things even in addition to what you’ve said. I’m not being overbearing, but you can be sure I’ll be meeting the parents of any sleepover situations. Sexual abuse is rampant, it happened to me and most of my friends growing up. Not taking that chance.
And yet, you are increasing the chances of your children suffering an early death by doing so. You are lowering the average life expectancy of your children.
Kids need unsupervised time free of their parents’ eyes. That’s how kids learn to be independent adults. You give them the chance to act independently and make mistakes while the stakes are still low.
You can’t keep them chained up forever. Eventually they will have to act independently. And when that day comes, if they have no experience being independent free human beings responsible for their own actions? Well they’re going to make extremely poor choices, as they’ve never had any practice in independent living before.
Yes, allowing your kid independence increases the risk that they’ll be abducted at age 12. But it decreases the risk they’ll die of an overdose at 22. And the former is astronomically less likely than the latter.
a reduction in crime rates doesn’t mean it’s safer. it just means that crimes are happening with impunity.
That kind of criminal impunity is reserved for the rich and powerful. While the crimes of the rich greatly affect society, by raw numbers, they don’t affect crime rates much. The rich may dominate theft statistics in terms of total dollars stolen, in terms of number of individual thieves, the rich are a rounding error.
With that attitude we are never going to accomplish anything as a society.
please elaborate on how continuing to do the same thing that got us here is accomplishing anything.
edit: I guess you’re in full support of the pedophiles running an entire country.
That depends on how you’re measuring it. You’re assuming that crimes aren’t being recorded properly. Why?
because nothing is recorded properly.
one of my friends died in 2021 from a car accident. cause of death? covid.
2023 a woman was shot near my home. I have the video footage of the man responsible. Sent to the police even. He was a member of the neighborhood. he was never arrested. never charged. he moved away in 2025. he shot her only because she wouldn’t let him rape her. officially documented only as a shooting.
thousands of crimes being committed in the financial sector, never documented, never investigated.
hundreds of politicians raping children, still allowed to rule over the people. rarely documented, never investigated.
list goes on and on. we are no safer today than we were 70 years ago. only difference is 70 years ago there was a lack of processing evidence and today there’s a lack of “incriminating” evidence.
Eh. Violent crime rates are hard to fuck with.
Non violent and overall are easy.
I’m the neighbor, let the kids scream. It’s like a damn ghost town around here.
That’s how I feel. Kids deserve space in society too. They’re not just little adults.
I’m a grownup and I could really use a good scream!
Post on your local Craigslist or other equivalent. Ask for a farmer willing to let you come scream in his field. You’ll probably find one.
You’re allowed to do it.
I don’t wanna hurt people with autism. I have autism and bad sounds hurt a lot. My screams would definitely be bad for others
Thank you.
ETA: You should see if there are any smash rooms around you.
also thank you
I usually scream into my pillow when I need to (after giving the roommates a heads up haha)
Having space in society doesn’t necessarily mean they should be giving carte blanche to disturb everybody else in the society.
There are very few things on this planet to irritate my tism and ACEs more than screaming of any kind.
Then it’s a good thing no one said they should be “given carte blanche to disturb everyone else”. They said they deserve space to express themselves freely just as much as you deserve to have a quiet space to take refuge.
… let the kids scream…
That is exactly what was said. Nobody cares about kids expressing themselves. This thread is specifically about kids being given carte blanche to scream.
No, it explicitly isn’t what was said. You’re just misrepresenting what was said to fit your narrative by conflating the idea of “providing spaces where kids can be kids” with “giving them carte blanche to disturb everyone”.
Also, being able to be loud and scream is a form of expressing one’s self. The entire topic is explicitly about kids being allowed spaces where they can express themselves comfortably and without judgment.
So, again since you missed it the first time, if you are to deserve spaces where you can have quiet then kids and others deserve spaces where they can be loud. Fair is fair.
You seem to have not read the comic we are all commenting on. This thread is about screaming in neighborhoods nothing more.
Read the comic just fine. This thread is about kids being allowed to be kids and that society we have created leaves no spaces for them to be so. Sorry you’re too simple minded to understand the topic at hand. Talk about a lack of media literacy.
The sounds of children playing are bice. As long as it’s within reasonable hours why does it matter.
I think it might depend on what we mean by “scream”, but I think everybody needs a bit of shouting, adults too. When I started going to martial arts classes, they were telling everybody to yell at certain points, and I thought, “But won’t this disturb the neighbors?” But eventually, I forgot about that and just shouted. It felt good, too.
I always think someone is dying when the kids are screaming and running in the street, thinking one got hit by a car or something
Yeah, STFU kid. Go talk to strangers in Roblox or something.
Then the mother wonders why her child draws such grim picturesXD
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
Turn the kid gets taken to the shrink for creating disturbing art.
Cute.
But just imagine the three panels that would’ve led up to Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon lol…
Or anything Hieronymus Bosch painted…
Ergot fungus was obviously more prevalent than previously attributed.
In the 15th century Netherlands, one could not be too picky about the sourcing of bread
“Ooo, a little bit of magic mold on my bread? I’m sure that’s fine… let’s paint some crazy!”
