Why does it seem like my son can only play whilst screaming, LOUDLY? He'll scream just about anything , and when he has nothing constructive to say he'll just screech in joy. With his sister following suit it's a constant level of loudness. I can't stand it. I like and need peace and quiet. Moderate kid noise is one thing, top-of-the-lung screaming is not good.
Indoor/outdoor voices don't really work. They'll scream outside (which isn't good, we essentially live in a townhouse where we have tons of neighbors and everyone can hear what we say in the backyard, it's that tiny) but also indoors. At the playground or at the mall DS will start screaming and inevitably one or two other little boys will follow suit and run around screaming bloody murder out of pure joy of childhood, but then other kids will get afraid of him because, honestly, he is pretty scary when he just screams unintelligible things.
It's causing him to be shunned a little in public.
We try making a game of it like who can whisper most quietly, let's play quiet-loud, let's pretend we're mice - then I'll try to be a bit more strict and tell him it's against our house's rules to scream inside... etc. But all to no avail. He just screams, screams, screams. Not out of malice or even "naughtiness" if you will - just out of exuberance.
Advice?
Indoor/outdoor voices don't really work. They'll scream outside (which isn't good, we essentially live in a townhouse where we have tons of neighbors and everyone can hear what we say in the backyard, it's that tiny) but also indoors. At the playground or at the mall DS will start screaming and inevitably one or two other little boys will follow suit and run around screaming bloody murder out of pure joy of childhood, but then other kids will get afraid of him because, honestly, he is pretty scary when he just screams unintelligible things.
It's causing him to be shunned a little in public.We try making a game of it like who can whisper most quietly, let's play quiet-loud, let's pretend we're mice - then I'll try to be a bit more strict and tell him it's against our house's rules to scream inside... etc. But all to no avail. He just screams, screams, screams. Not out of malice or even "naughtiness" if you will - just out of exuberance.
Advice?
