Please keep the noise down.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....ldren-noise-down.html

We all like the noise of children's shouts and laughter when they are at play, after all we were all children ourselves once.

But surely some can empathize with this house owner, after all the school's playground has been moved to only 10ft away when it was once 85ft away from his house.

Some of today's children, seem to take a delight in constantly screaming, when I was a child we were always told by our parents to "play properly, there is no need to scream".

[daffy654]

When I first read this article yesterday I just thought "why move near to a school and then complain about the noise?", I then read the bit about the school being 85 ft away before they extended and changed to feeling sympathy for the couple.
If kids didn't feel the need to scream all the time it probably wouldn't have been too bad for the householders.

[douglas9401]

I blame the parents etc. :)

[Robinia]

I'm not next to a school but I have them passing every day on their way to two local ones. I agree about the screaming, and it's not just a little girly thing, the boys do it too.

[rov1100]

The problem is today's children cannot get the attention of their parents who have other things to do. So the children at play have to scream louder and louder to get their points across as other children have the same idea.

[boxtops]

They even screech at each other when they are on the bus in the morning - conversation can't be conducted quietly any more.

[ummmm]

I have two primary schools close by and I never hear the children scream on their way to and from school.

They scream at play time, which amount to? 2 hours a day?

[DTCwordfan]

What a storm in a teacup - typical Daily Wail spacefiller.

Not as if it is at 6am or 11pm (try living next to some pubs for the adult version) - and it's certainly not 365 days a year..... Get real.

[Arksided]

I live next door to three young girls and sometimes when their friends are around 'playing' it does sound like they're killing each other, I have the compulsion to check they're OK.

I feel sorry for folk in link but com'on...misery!

[craft1948]

I live around 200 yards away from a primary school in the next street, and can hear the kiddies in the summer when my windows are open. They do make a heck of a row at playtime but it doesn't particularly bother me..............I'd hate to live next door to the school though.

[JonnyBoy12]

Two men are working on the road with some road drills. One said to the other "What did you do before you did this job then?" The other replied by saying "I used to be a school bus driver but I could not stand the noise"!

"A quiet child is either asleep, feeling unwell or reading". Does anyone know where this quote comes from?

[daffy654]

In my experience JonnyBoy a quiet child is up to mischief. :)

[SueMoneyRowley]

We don't all like the shouts and laughter of children playing!

[DTCwordfan]

The corollary of the above is that many of us like the shouts and laughter of children playing!

Imagine a world where they were muzzled from such expression. It would be a very sad place.

[Kiki-frog]

Children have highpitched voices and they shriek a lot when they play. Always has been that way and always will.

[EcclesCake]

No, we don't all like the noise of children's shouts and laughter.

I fully empathise with the householder, I'd be mightily pee'd off if the school changed the parameters.

I also wonder why children feel the need to scream, mostly unchecked by their parents.

[naomi24]

I like to see children playing and having fun, but I suspect the excess noise is learned behavour. I detest those television shows like Deal or No Deal where the adult audience shout and scream incessantly. Give me University Challenge any day.

[ummmm]

In this case, unchecked by the school.

That's just what children do. Long gone are the days of 'seen and not heard' which was, in the main, instilled through fear!

The more children you get together, the louder they are.

[EcclesCake]

I might be a grumpy old (early forties) woman....but...I do feel for the householder.

When I was at school we had a massive school field that bordered local households, during break time there was a set boundary that we were not allowed to breach. It was followed as stringently as the 'do not smoke on school premises' rule.

[ummmm]

But would you buy a house 85ft from a school? Because that's still close...

[DTCwordfan]

It's just like buying a house on a golf course and then moaning about golf balls landing on your property......